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Remove cached files in your Git history
So today I stumbled upon an issue where I was unable to remove a chunk of code that was left in my repository for some reason. I accidentally added a 1.2 Gib database dump and after I removed it from my repository and git rm –cached it, Git would still try to to push this huge read further ...The art of deployment
(please note, that the original dutch article I write can be found here) A website is worthless if it can’t be visited online. To achieve this it has to be uploaded to a server: it has to be deployed. Often, the task of deploying a website is thought of to be a simple thing: you read further ...Create an archive of changed files in your GIT repository
Often I find myself updating my clients’ websites. This can be a simple bugfix or a major update, but eventually I always end up transfering updated files to the FTP-server. Lucky for me, GIT allows me to create a simple archive with only the modified files, making deploying changes to a webserver so much more read further ...