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Gremlins After Midnight: How 794 Git Packs Hit the macOS 256 File Limit

A routine darwin-rebuild on Determinate Nix 3.15 died with 'Too many open files' because Nix's flake cache is a libgit2 repo, it had grown to hundreds of packs, and macOS still ships a 256 file descriptor limit to anything launchd starts.

Bridging git worktrees and jj workspaces for agentic workflows

My jj workspaces were invisible to Zed, Neovim, and Codex, no diff gutters, no blame annotations. The fix? A single line pointing libgit2 to the Git object store that was already there.

Debugging Git network connection issues using GIT_TRACE

I have been travelling a lot this month and working remotely from cafes and public places during my stay in Europe. And most often I was connected to the internet using the public hot spots or free Wifi provided by the cafes or restaurants. The quality of the connections were

Install, configure and use git hooks to automate your workflow with distributed team

My team uses Git as the center of our development process, leveraging all those cool features git provides us - git workflow, feature branching, switching branches for code reviews, Pull Requests and all such cool stuff. Using git is an integral part of our workflow, which means all the development happens

Git fatal: remote origin already exists

One of my colleagues was facing an issue with git, trying to add a remote to the git repo. ➜ repo_name git:(master) git remote add origin git@github.com:username/repo_name.git fatal: remote origin already exists. As the error message indicates, there is already a remote configured

Easy way pull latest of all git-submodules

Often large projects have dependencies on many other 3rd party libraries. Each library can be a separate repo that can be brought into the dependant project as a submodule. During development, if ever you want to just go grab the latest version of every dependant submodule, type in the following

“bin/rails: No such file or directory” w/ Ruby 2 & Rails 4 on Heroku

Rails apps with version 4 or above has some files under the bin folder namely bundle, rails, rake, setup, spring. But since I had bin folder gitignored, these files dint make it to heroku. To fix this: Remove bin from ~/.gitignore Run bundle install or rake rails:update:bin Commit

How to update git remotes

To list the existing remotes, we can use the following command: git remote -v #View existing remotes origin https://github.com/user/repo.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/user/repo.git (push) Use the following command to set the remote to a new end point. git remote set-url

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