Move a subdirectory into a new git repository

Context In the real world, we may probably have a large Git repository where you want to move out some sub-directories into single Git repositories. Regarding the Git repository, we…

Undo the last commit

As a software engineer or developer, I am pretty sure we often use git in our work on a daily basis. Many commits are committed to your local or remote…

Create or update a commit by a specified author

You may have a situation where a repository is mirrored to multiple remote URLs. One of the URLs is on Bitbucket and the other one is based on GitLab for…

Create an empty commit

When updating a submission, a new revision will be created to capture the updates and a commit will also be created. However, some updates don’t change the files coming alongside the submission but edited some metadata on that submission/dataset. In this case, an empty commit is created to match the newly created version.

Exceptions in a .gitignore file

You can tell Git to ignore some files or directories using a pattern. However, there are some exceptions we don’t want miss files which are matched to the pattern. In…

Git tutorials

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance.

How to upload a new project to a remote Git repository

I often forget how to upload a new project to a remote Git repository because that is rarely done. Thus I need to summarise the essential steps of this operation…