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gitignore exceptions: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0400

As you know, gitignore files allow us to make ignore exceptions for files and directories using the the exclamation mark !. For multi-level directory structures adding gitignore exceptions can become really tricky.

Let’s take an example. Say we have the following structure on our local:

my-app/
  └── .gitignore
  └── dir1/
  └── foo.txt
  └── bar.txt
  └── baz.txt

We want to ignore everything in my-app directory except the file baz.txt. We simply add to our .gitignore:

Setup the GitHub CLI

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:30:00 +0400

Installation

The easiest way to install the GitHub CLI (henceforth gh) under Linux or Mac is to use Homebrew:

brew install gh

Under Linux, gh is also available via snapd on the edge channel (dev builds).

sudo snap install --edge gh

And under Windows, we can just use the MSI Installer.

Other installation instructions and methods are available at cli.github.com/manual/installation.

Authentication

Before using the gh, first, we need to authenticate in GitHub. To do that we run the following command in the terminal:

3rd-party Git GUI Clients

Sat, 29 Aug 2020 23:51:40 +0400

The full list is available at git-scm.com/downloads/guis/.

The GitKraken is well-known from those and is, probably, the most popular git GUI client out there.

Git: Cloning a Project With Submodules

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 01:34:19 +0400

To retrive git submodules as well while cloning we can use --recurse-submodules command attribute.

git clone --recurse-submodules <repository_url>

More info at git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

Guthub? It Still Works

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:00:13 +0400

If you mistakenly typed guthub.com in the browser address bar, it will still redirect you to the GitHub page.

Try: guthub.com