My GIT use is for my own personal projects, so I often don’t need many of its features. I used a new one tonight that could not of been easier: cherry-picking. I needed one small commit that I made on my working branch in my master branch. How to do it though? This article was all I needed.

I have a hard time remembering git reset --hard HEAD for some reason when I want to rollback changes to the last commit in my working branch when I go down a path that doesn’t work. Mercurial has an easy to remember command for this hg rollback. Git has a feature called Alias though that you can use... [More]

I have been learning how to use Git for the past couple of days via the book Pragmatic Version Control Using Git. For the project I am using it on, I wanted to create a .gitignore file that excluded certain files and directories from my repository. I first tried to create a .gitignore.txt file and t... [More]