Ever needed to do a lot of work across lots of your github repos or simply back your repos up? It’s couldn’t be easier!
Step 1.
gem install github-backup
Step 2.
github-backup johnmclear
Replace johnmclear with your github username.
Step 3.
Profit
Tag: github
Using git bisect to debug Etherpad issues
Sometimes stuff gets broken due to new commits, we need to know which commit broke functionality.
To do this
git pull git checkout develop
Ensure the bug exists then
git checkout master
Ensure the bug doesn’t exist. If it does checkout older versions IE git checkout release/1.2.8
Next begin the bisect process..
git bisect start
Tell bisect that master is fine
git bisect good
Tell bisect that develop is bad
git checkout develop git bisect bad
Bisect will then deliver you a commit state, test this new version..
bin/run.sh
Test, Control C.. Did it work? If so…
git bisect good
Did it not work? If so..
git bisect bad
Rinse repeat ‘git bisect good’ and/or ‘git bisect bad’ until it delivers you with a commit SHA then create an issue including the details from the SHA.
Basically bisect will tell you which commit introduced the bug.