September 18 08
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 useĀ ./script/plugin install to install from the master branch of a Github repository. Now you can specify the branch name [...]
September 3 08
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 [...]
June 22 08
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.