Git

How to apply new commits in your forked repo from the parent (upstream) repo ?

Define a repo somewhere in your file system with a bare init

mkdir -p /somewhere/repo/test_project
cd /somewhere/repo/test_project
git init --bare

Now create a local folder for your work with init only

Git log in colors.

As of Git v1.7.0, you can delete a remote branch using :

git push origin --delete <branchName>

And you can do exactly the same with a tag

If you have some files that you need to have in your repo but don’t need to have updates, git allows it :