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  • Rails

    Installing a Ruby on Rails Plugin from a Github Branch

    09.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

    One of the coolest things about Git is how easy it makes working with branches. Rails has been playing catch up with Git’s distributed methodologies and recently took a nice step forward. Previously you could only use ./script/plugin install to install from the master branch of a Github repository. Now you can specify the branch name [...]

  • Git

    Update a Github Fork from the Original Repo

    09.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Feather Blog has made some great progress recently and when looking to update my fork I found myself staring at my repo not sure what to do. My wonderful Github didn’t give me a one-click way to pull updates from the original repository (or any other fork for that matter). I’ll demonstrate how to do [...]

  • Rants

    Trust Your Source Control

    06.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Often times I see something like some_file_bak or image.jpg.old in a repository. Renaming the original to a new file name only makes things more confusing because now the _bak file has no history. Trust you code control and use it as it is intended.