When should you branch?

In general term, the main purpose of branching (a VCS – Version Control System – feature) is to achieve code isolation. You have at least one branch, which can be enough for sequential development, and is used for many tasks being recording (committed) on that same unique branch. But that model shows quickly its limit: … Read more

Getting Git to work with a proxy server – fails with “Request timed out”

Command to use: git config –global http.proxy http://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080 change proxyuser to your proxy user change proxypwd to your proxy password change proxy.server.com to the URL of your proxy server change 8080 to the proxy port configured on your proxy server Note that this works for both http and https repos. If you decide at any … Read more