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In the git repository for your website, there’s a .gitignore file. It lists what files you don’t want to track as part of the repository. There are different things you might want to ignore: Git is for tracking code. To protect, retrieve or reset an entire website with all its content, try a backup software/protocol/system …
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Creating a repository for code with Git means you want to track changes that are made to that code. Git works by tracking files in the folder it’s set up in. Often, though, there’s more than just code that is included in the folders. For instance, for a website, there’s content like blog posts and …
Composer (see here) is a system to organize your PHP code. With this system, you can create or maintain PHP files by referring to snippets that are stored in different places. This is called “dependency management”. Basic building blocs of PHP code can be stored in “libraries”. Libraries can be shared across projects. If they’re …
We’ve been over some of the softwares, systems, and logins that are part of a developer’s life. As everything in this world, things change (hopefully for the better). Here are quick guidelines on how to update the different softwares we use. Git for Windows This helps use the git protocol on a windows computer. In …
Do you want to combine several options when running a command in a terminal? Just type them in right after the command itself, before the main parameters. Remember to type the hypens, too: $ grep -r -i -l –color -a mystringtolookfor * The nice thing is that you can collapse all the options together, as …
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Perhaps you’ve typed in a grep command that wasn’t well thought out. Here is how to exit grep and get your terminal to respond again. Make sure the terminal window is active and press the following keys to exit grep and cancel the current command: ctrl + c This gets you back to : and …
“grep” is a command you can use in a terminal to find sequences of characters. It can search through entire folders and find matches. If you use the right parameters, it will display all the matches it finds. Before simply typing the command, however, you should know it might need a long time to comb …
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A terminal is used to communicate commands to your computer. It’s the most basic form of telling it what to do. Practically, when you use a mouse to click on a file to open it, this is simply a Graphic User Interface (GUI) that converts that action into a terminal command in the background. In …
Git helps you synchronize and track changes to a folder with its subfolders. A website is basically a folder on a server somewhere. In the folder are subfolders, images, text documents, databases and such. Git makes it possible to synchronize the content of the folders, take a portion out to fiddle with, and then merge …