There are some files that shouldn't be tracked by Git at all. For example, the temporary files created by the text editors, the Python bytecode, and etc.
How could we ignore those files? In the previous post, I have mentioned
that we can create a .gitignore file and list the …
In some circumstances, we would like to ignore the files (or directories) under the Git repository base directory. How could we do this? For example, assume that we have a Git repository with following files:
out/bin/conv
preprocessed/out/gen-case1.h
preprocessed/out/gen-case2.h
preprocessed/input.txt
conv …Today I have learned two different usages of git command. First, to
list the least common ancestor of two refs, we may use following command:
$ git merge-base --octopus <commit_1> <commit_2> ... <commit_n>
Please notice that --octopus is mandatory; otherwise, git
will create a hypothetical commit M, which merges …
