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| | initialcommit.com
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| | We explain how to check out the initial commit of any open source project using Git. Examining the initial commit is a great way to learn how a program's code works.
| | mikecoats.com
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| | A common time-saving 'hack' of mine when building 'new-but-related-to-old' projects is to fork an existing code base and use it as the boot-strap for the new project. GitHub, however, does not provide the functionality on their website to fork your own project; you can only fork other people's projects. Here's how to work around that.
| | endot.org
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| | I've been using git_backup to back up the websites I run for quite a while now. It works well and I only need to scan the daily cron emails to see if the backup went well or if there were any odd files changed the day before. One thing that I didn't expect when I started using it was how it would enable developing those websites in a sandbox without any danger of affecting the production instances.
| | rick.cogley.info
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| It's possible to update a forked git repository using the Terminal or one of the many good GUIs for git, but did you know Github gives you a way to update a fork directly in its web interface?