Git: make local repo exactly like remote
Posted: 2023-10-08 Filed under: slackbuilds | Tags: git, repo, slackrepo 1 CommentI have been using slackrepo to maintain my own packages repository for Slackware 15.0. It’s an excellent tool, however, it has a limitation of how often you can sync with SlackBuilds.org. Usually this does not bother me, because I run an update once per week, after the Public www update (usually on Saturday). Every now and then, slackrepo will not see the updated SBo immediately, because it won’s sync.
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Delete a git commit
Posted: 2023-07-17 Filed under: system | Tags: commit, delete, git, github, remove, revert 2 CommentsI’ve been preparing a few (very preliminary) ports that I do not wish to push to my git repo with the rest. However, being tired and all, I did a git commit -a, so they ended up there. So far, whatever experience I’ve got with git, it was always by going forward… I did revert the commit, but wanted to know how to delete it completely.
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Managing git
Posted: 2023-02-28 Filed under: system | Tags: git, github 3 CommentsI appreciate git’s power, but I still find it unnecessarily complicated. I am not going to whine or complain here about that. Instead, I decided to outline a few steps about setting up keys and some basic commands. I am using GitHub as an example.
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GitHub direct download links
Posted: 2022-10-31 Filed under: misc, network | Tags: direct, downloads, git, github, link Leave a commentAs a maintainer at SlackBuilds.org, I would like to have a handy place to store some “problematic” sources and some other files. Once upon a time, I used SourceForge, but I wanted to have it at Slackalaxy’s GitHub repo. Uploading tarballs is fine, however what should be the download link to put in, for example, a *.info file?
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SBo git master, sbopkg and sqg
Posted: 2013-11-10 Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: conf, git, sbopkg, sqg Leave a commentI had a rather simple solution to use sbopkg with the most recent git from SBo. However, after reading this discussion, it seems there’s a more intelligent way to do it, nicely described by ponce. Read the rest of this entry »
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