The command to create a git bare repository is as follows: git init bare . Git bare vs non-bare repos. If you inspect a bare Git repo, you’ll notice that the .git folder you would see in a normal ...

Reinforcing good repository management practices as part of your coding standards and during code reviews can help keep the Git repo size under control. 6. Back up the Git code.

A Git fork is nothing more than a copy of an existing repository, along with a change to the name of the folder in which that repository resides. The change to the folder name creates a new Git URL, ...

A Git repository is subdivided into two areas. There’s a staging area, where you can add and remove files that make up your project, and then there’s the commit history.

I’m going to show you how you can quickly deploy a Git repository using just git and ssh. You should be able to spin this up in less than five minutes (two, if you type fast). Let’s get busy.

Design patterns provide proven solutions to real world problems faced in software designs. The Repository pattern is used to decouple the business logic and the data access layers in your application.

Hosting your own code repository has many benefits, such as security and ease of use. Jack Wallen shows you how to deploy a local repository to your data center with Gogs.

The developers behind Git and various companies providing Git repository hosting services have pushed out a fix to patch a dangerous vulnerability in the Git source code versioning software.

Git is a wonderful tool that can multiply your project’s impact, or make your project easier to manage by an order of magnitude. Some of us hackers don’t yet know how to use command-lin… ...