Git servers like Github and Gitlab are a complete mess, because they try to appeal to every use-case. If they were a person, they would be someone who says 'yea, me too' so reflexively that everyone gives them pitying looks. Each could do better as a more specialized service for a particular use. But we don't need …

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Soft Serve is a git server for the command line. You can see the maintainers' version here, with ssh: 1ssh git.charm.sh It looks like this: Soft Serve • Repositories About ┃ Bubble Tea Updated 31 minutes ago ┃ A powerful little TUI framework mirror] ┃ git clone git@git.charm.sh:bubbletea.git Soft Serve Updated 3 days …

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Requirements Setup git You can make Alice the author, while you are still the commiter: 1name="Alice Bobinson" 2email="alice@email.com" 3 4git add ${file} 5git commit --author="${name} <${email}>" Or, make Alice both the committer and the author: 1git -c user.name="${name}" -c user.email="${email}" commit -m …

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Check out the sample hooks: 1cd ${git_repo} 2ls .git/hooks 3head .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample Add a hook to check the shell scripts in $GIT_REPO before making a commit: 1echo '#!/bin/sh 2shellcheck *.sh' > .git/hooks/commit-msg 3chmod u+x .git/hooks/commit-msg Committing The git hooks will not work on other people who …

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Requirements Setup git Save file-changes without committing anything. Change a file: 1file=README.md 2fortune >> ${file} 3git diff 4git stash save List which stashes you have: 1git stash list 2 3 stash@{1}: WIP on master: c21f102 init git Make a new file, then stash it: 1otherfile=file.log 2fortune > ${otherfile} 3git …

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Requirements Setup git Git Large File Storage ('LFS') needs to change your ~/.gitconfig to check out those binary files: 1cat ~/.gitconfig 2git lfs install 3cat ~/.gitconfig Then track some filetypes with: 1cd $git_repository 2ext=ttf 3git lfs track "*.$ext" Or a directory with: 1git lfs track "images/" Track the …

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This utility is largely useless, as it can only identify people by their email. So if someone has multiple GPG keys associated with one email, the tool will not work. A broken tool is better than a tool which will break soon.

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Read the minimal size of a git repo 1git count-objects -vH | grep -Po 'size-pack: \K.*' Git repositories are never at their minimal size. Email a pull request which points to your git server 1repo=ssh://soft.dmz.rs:2222/mkdots/ 2theirHead='HEAD^^^^' 3head=master 4git request-pull "${theirHead}" "${repo}" "${head}" You …

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