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GIT Tutorial – A thorough Git Howto About Using Remotes

Posted on by Marco Antonio Carcano

Git is certainly the most popular Source Code Management (SCM) software: it is broadly used in almost every recent open source project, and even a lot of emblazoned legacy projects switched to it over the years.

In the previous post we thoroughly learned how to use it to version control sources, working only on personal - so local - repositories.

GIT Tutorial - A thorough Git Howto About Using Remotes completes our trip on learning how to professionally use Git, showing you how to link the personal local repository to shared remote bare repositories.
Knowing how to deal with this topic is of course a mandatory skill, since this is the only way you have to cooperate and work with other developers.

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GIT Tutorial – A thorough Version Control with Git Howto

Posted on by Marco Antonio Carcano

DevOps (and of course DevSecOps) are getting more and more adopted by companies: these methodologies rely on several frameworks and software skills, and working with a modern Source Code Management (SCM) such any kind of software implementing Git is certainly a must for every DevOps professional. This post is the first of a set of posts dedicated to Git and is aimed at providing a GIT Tutorial - A thorough Version Control with Git Howto on personal repositories, giving guidelines to proficient operating with it.
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Files: verifying checksums, comparing files and generating patches

Posted on by Marco Antonio Carcano

Despite it is a boring task, comparing file is a need that sometimes IT professionals have to deal with: there are many reasons for having to deal with this:

  • verify if a file has been corrupted
  • verify if a file has been tampered
  • compare two versions of a configuration file to see where they differ - this happens quite often when after a configuration modification an application stops working as it should and you have to guess why
  • generate a patch that can be used to go back and forth to current and previous version of the same files

and so on.

This post explains how to deal with these needs on Linux using the tools provided by the Linux distribution.

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