Tag: bash

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 I do not publish photos too often currently, but occasionally I do.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…