Daily Archives: December 11, 2014

How to update a forked repository (github)

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Thomas Cokelaer

I followed those steps and it worked like a charm using github interface assuming there was no changes between the fork and main repository Open your fork on GitHub. Click on Pull Requests. Click on New Pull Request. By default, … Continue reading →

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Moving from SVN to git: $Id:$ equivalent

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Thomas Cokelaer

In SVN (and CVS), you could include special strings such as $Id:$$Id:$ and after a commit, the revision number would appear after “Id:”, which was a convenient way to retrieve the revision for instance in a print statement. Apparently, with … Continue reading →

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