Tag: git

Simple Git HTTP server

Posted on by Elia Schito

The other day I had to share a repo to a colleague without him having access to the online repo.

Conscious that git can serve repositories through HTTP I set myself to discover the simplest way to do it without a full blown git hosting app like GitLab or Gitorious.

At that point I took out my google-fu and came up with the following:

git update-server-info # this will prepare your repo to be served
ruby -run -ehttpd -- . -p 5000
git clone http://localhost:5000/.git repo_name

Now by just knowing your IP anyone will be able to clone that repo.

BONUS

If you’re a PHP nostalgic OSX 10.10 comes with the php command which is able to serve a directory and interpret any PHP file in it (like mod_php would):

git update-server-info # this will prepare your repo to be served
php -S 0.0.0.0:5000 -t .
git clone http://localhost:5000/.git repo_name

Stay tuned for more PHP and Ruby awesomeness!

Recover staged files after git reset –hard

Posted on by Gianluca

Ok you want to get rid off of your unstaged file in a git repo.

Nice:

git add .  
git reset --hard

But wait…what?…no!!! Some of the unstaged files were actually necessary! They had to be in .gitignore! What about now?!

Don’t despair and type:

git fsck --lost-found

Now you can go in the newly created directory .git/lost-found/other/ and find all the files that were deleted by the destructive git reset --hard.

The only problem is that their original names aren’t retained 🙁

Anyway if you remember the content of the files that should be actually retained you can check manually each one of those in .git/lost-found/other/ and copy them back in their original location.