I was working on one Git branch and I wanted a file from another branch. Using git checkout, we can do this.
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Dev Tips
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301, 302, 303, and 307 Redirects
A quick table of the differences in 301, 302, 303, and 307 Redirects.
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How is git push force-with-lease aware of a commit
I’ve written about using “git push –force-with-lease” instead of git push –force” because “force-with-lease” will only force push changes if your local copy is aware of all of the commits on the remote branch but how is git “aware” of the commits.
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htaccess Redirect Based on URL Parameter
On a project I needed to redirect a URL based on the presence or absence of a URL parameter. This is the htaccess rule I added.
Never use git push force
Never use git push –force. Seriously, don’t use it. You should always use –force-with-lease instead. We’ll look at the problem with –force and how –force-with-lease addresses the issue.
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Hide PDF Toolbar in Google Chrome
The PDF Toolbar that comes up in Google Chrome when displaying a PDF can be suppressed by modifying the URL.
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Git HEAD~ vs HEAD^
Both HEAD^ and HEAD~ can be used in Git to refer to previous commits but in different ways.
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Git Commit Message Editor
By default Vim is the editor used when writing a Git commit message. While I love Vim, it does work very differently than most other editors. A good option for those who are not comfortable with Vim, is to use a different editor. This is how to setup Git to use a different editor.
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Vim, tmux, iTerm broken colors
I do most of my work in Vim (or Neovim) in tmux inside of iTerm on my Mac. I found my color schemes were being properly applied in Neovim but not in Vim (version 8). Adding two lines to my .vimrc corrected the problem for me.
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Introduction to Arrow functions
I’ve been spending more time working with modern JavaScript (including learning about arrow functions) and I wanted to make some notes here regarding arrow functions (since some details about them were not intuitive to me at first).