Hidden files and folders usually contain configuration data and other goodies not intended for public consumption. Git, for example, saves all sorts of useful information in a root-level directory named .git. By default these files and folders don’t appear in a directory listing, but depending on server setup and where they live relative to the […]
When working with a private repository, GitHub will force you to provide a username and password (or personal access token if two-step authentication has been configured) every time you want to do anything that affects the repository (e.g. clone, pull, push, fetch). If you associate a specific username with the repository (from a user authorized […]
Sometimes when I’m trying to clone a private repository to a remote host, I get a 403 Forbidden error, like so: git clone https://github.com/repos_username/repos_name.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/public_html/.git/ error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/repos_username/repos_name.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed No prompt for a username and password, just the door […]
The relief and joy I feel after placing a project under version control is usually tempered by the frustration that almost immediately, almost invariably follows the first time I run svn status and see system-generated files in the tmp or cache directories turning up. [I had this happen recently with a site I was building […]
Before I start work for a client I always push to set up some sort of versioning (usually Subversion), regardless of whether there’s going to be a team doing the development or just me. I store the repository on a separate server, just to give the project the best chance at recovery should something untoward […]
If you find yourself needing to export either an individual directory from a repos (say, as part of placing a project under version control) SVN’s export command is the tool for the job. Here’s the standard export syntax: svn export /path/to/repos /target/directory If /target/directory doesn’t exist, SVN, ever accommodating, will create it for you before […]