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Gerrit is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system.

Sometimes I ran across a GitHub merge request of a gem where it was not completely obvious in which version the change was released. This might be the case for a bugfix PR that you want to add to your project.

Git can help you to find the next gi...

As described by the linked Stackoverflow answer, run these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git --version

This will get you Git 2.6.4 (as of Dec 2015).

Troubleshooting...

This is a guide on how to effectively use Git when working on a feature branch. It is designed to get out of your way as much as possible while you work, and ensure you end up with clean commits in the end.

**We assume you are the only person wor...

Noel Rappin discusses ways to keep up with edge Rails.

It most cases it's not necessary to add a version constraint next to your gems in the Gemfile. Since all versions are saved in the Gemfile.lock, everyone running bundle install will get exactly the same versions.

There are some exceptions, ...

• You probably haven't configured version control for your project.
• Go to Project Settings / Version Control and set the director <Project> to Git

The ‘merge.*.driver` variable’s value is used to construct a command to run to merge ancestor’s version, current version and the other branches’ version. The merge driver is expected to leave the result of the merge in the file named with %A by ov...

So you're hunting down a regression (or just a bug) and want to use git bisect to find out when it was introduced? Smart kid.
If you have a shell comma...