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Git, VCSes and binary files Git is famous and has become popular even in the enterprise/commercial environments. But Git is also infamous ...

On Windows, in the cmd shell, the color control caracters generated by the Google Repo tool (or its windows port made by ESRLabs ) or git ap...

Did you ever had the need in a git repository to change to another branch without altering AT ALL the working copy and ever wondered how tha...

Often people create branches to fix various bugs or implement various features, and publish those to a public repository to be pulled in the...

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In case you tried to use git-buildpackage and wanted to use cowbuilder as a builder, you might have ran into the error sudo: sorry, you a...

If you have two or more available gpg keys that can be used for the same identity (e.g.: 'John Doe <john@doe.com> ') that you ...

You might find yourself at some moment when your git repository imported from CVS does not contain all the correct names and email addresses...

Update: After trying KiBi's suggestion to take advantage of this information , I looked for more info on the issue and found this conv...

Let's assume you're part of a project X that uses git for version control on a server host.it. Due to historical reasons your login ...

Nailed it! After a rocky start , I managed to find the commit that broke sleep for my laptop . 91a6c462b02d8dc02dbe95e5a407d78078a38d01 is f...

Note: this is quite long and might not be interesting for people not involved with /in either of: debian i18n, debian l10n, git, shell scrip...

I have been thinking for quite some time about migrating the maintenance of the wormux package to git, but in a really smart way so that: ...

The versioned depends on tk8.5 has been removed in 1:1.5.6.3-1~bpo40+4, but still, this isn't enough: $ gitk /usr/bin/gitk: line 3: /usr...

Update: It seems that the lenny version (1:1.5.6.3-1) plus some small changes to allow building and running on etch does not have this probl...

JoeyH wrote a while back some thoughts on why he hates the DGT SVN repo (mainly our policy to import just the incomplete source of packages...