Tag: Git (6)

When you want to use one of your existing repositories as a template for a new project—while still maintaining a link to the original for updates—a standard "fork" isn't always possible on GitHub if you own both. Here is the best practice steps to manually fork your own repo and configure an upstream remote.

GitHub remains one of the most reliable repository website for code, but we can also utilize its storage capability to host images for our website. In this tutorial, we are going to use a image upload tool and set up custom domain for the repo to enable pretty link for our images.

By default, git will use fast forward when merging a branch. The problem with fast forward is the branch information will be lost after deletion. However, if we specifically forbid the fast forward mode, a new commit will occur with the branch information.

This post is going to illustrate how to sync a fork of a repository to keep it up-to-date with the upstream repository.

We use .gitignore file to untrack certain folder and/or files to the remote repository. However sometimes you have some files already pushed to your remote repository. Now you want to only keep them locally, so here is how to remove them from the remote repository.