Tag: bash

Issues restoring Gitea from dump

Somehow, the official documentation for restoring Gitea from dump did not work for me. Roughly, the following command for the original rootful Docker image could look like this: /app/gitea/gitea dump --file gitea-dump.zip -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini --skip-lfs-data --skip-reposit…

Merge repos using git-filter-repo

I have already written how useful a tool git filter-repo is for cleaning repositories. I made some extensive use of the newfound knowledge since to undo some previous bad decisions in my private repositories. Here's a list of commands for merging project-a into project-b for a re…

Git sign previous commits keeping dates

Sometimes you might need to re-sign your previous commits using GnuPG. This process rewrites the git history in a sense of changing commit hashes. What is more, it also changes the date when commit was made. If not done properly, the repository looks like if there was no history …

Clever uses for git-filter-repo

There is a common saying around version control systems stating the following: Do not rewrite the history. And it is pretty solid saying to be fair, supported at many threads, for instance at FS#45425 or elsewhere. You simply have to assume that once you pushed something into t…

A dead-simple Laravel test watcher

I am spoiled by the many test watchers from the javascript world that do all the file change watching and polling on your behalf, to rerun the tests the moment you save a particular file. This feature usually comes out of the box, especially with the more complex tools like Jest …

Stripping EXIF metadata from photos

There is no shortage of privacy related issues on the Internet. One of them I decided to tackle today is EXIF metadata embedded to the photos I publish here. I do not publish photos too often currently, but occasionally I do. Before today, I did not strip any EXIF metadata and th…

Folderize your post for SSG

Since I have converted my blog to Zola, I started using assets a little bit more in the posts. I am still not sure if it is the right thing, but for now it helps me convey information in addition to text. To embed a photo into the post, there are at least two main options availab…