Want more powerful ways to leverage other projects using Git? Mirror a repository! Mirroring a repository involves creating an exact copy of the original repository, including all branches, tags, and commits. Create a mirror if you want to ‘fork’ a project from one git service to another or if you want to make a copy […]
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So you’ve started using features of C++17 and modern CMake. Great idea! This post outlines how you might handle a corner-case issue when using features at the bleeding edge of your toolchain. In this example, I’m trying to use a std::filesystem API not supported by specific versions of the GNU toolchain. So we need to
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Do you spend countless hours searching through code repositories or file systems? Do you want to use slow and outdated search tools like grep? Look no further than the Silver Searcher, the lightning-fast file search utility designed to revolutionize how you search for files. So say goodbye to frustratingly slow search times and hello to
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Git is a powerful version control system that revolutionizes how developers manage and collaborate code. However, one of the lesser-known features of Git is the pickaxe, which is a powerful tool for searching through the history of a repository to find changes. Let’s take a closer look at Git pickaxe and how you can use
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CMake is incredible software you should learn and use. Why? It enables you to build C, C++, and other languages for almost any situation you can imagine. Moreover, you can do so more efficiently than with other tools because one tool works everywhere. And it’s used in many famous projects, so chances are high it
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Tig is one of those tools that every git user should know. All you must remember is it’s ‘git’ spelled backward, right? It’s a command line tool that makes browsing git history a breeze. It’s excellent for looking at commits, branches, and tags. I prefer it to anything else for browsing history and commits. And
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