(I realize this question is five years old, and that the OP probably found a solution already.) I work on a team that manages a large WordPress website. We have tens of thousands of custom posts, with data being entered/edited dozens if not hundreds of times a day. We actually break things down a little … Read more
Basically ignore everything except your theme folder and custom plugins. sample .gitignore: wp-admin/ wp-includes/ .htaccess index.php license.txt liesmich.html readme.html wp-activate.php wp-blog-header.php wp-comments-post.php wp-config.php wp-config-sample.php wp-config-stage.php wp-config-live.php wp-config-dev.php wp-config-production.php wp-cron.php wp-links-opml.php wp-load.php wp-login.php wp-mail.php wp-settings.php wp-signup.php wp-trackback.php xmlrpc.php config/ wp-content/plugins/ wp-content/mu-plugins/ wp-content/languages/ wp-content/uploads/ wp-content/upgrade/ wp-content/themes/* # don’t ignore the theme you’re using !wp-content/themes/yourthemename This makes the … Read more
General Questions answered Nr.1. Would like to have my git environment on my own server internally, not using Github to handle repos. The first thing I’d do is to check out composer and how it works with WordPress, which is a project by Andrey “@Rarst” Savchenko. Nr.2. Automatic creation of subdomains upon git branch creation … Read more
Git for plugins: Use Composer for plugins which are already packaged on packagist or wpackagist. Add them to composer.json. Use TGM Plugin Activation for other plugins. Then, use Git to manage composer.json and the changes in the TGM plugin. The hardest part is to sync database: Definitely, we should share database. Reconfigure a plugin settings/options … Read more
A common cause is cloning using the default (HTTPS) instead of SSH. You can correct this by going to your repository, clicking “Clone or download”, then clicking the “Use SSH” button above the URL field and updating the URL of your origin remote like this: You can check if you have added the remote as … Read more
If you are at the root of your working directory, you can do git checkout — . to check-out all files in the current HEAD and replace your local files. You can also do git reset –hard to reset your working directory and replace all changes (including the index).
Try In your repository directory. The error message is rather explicit as to what causes it typically, so if you have no other git processes running (which is the normal case), go ahead and delete that file.
If you’ve got local source code you want to add to a new remote new git repository without ‘cloning’ the remote first, do the following (I often do this – you create your remote empty repository in bitbucket/github, then push up your source) Create the remote repository, and get the URL such as [email protected]:/youruser/somename.git or https://github.com/youruser/somename.gitIf your local … Read more
November 2021 Update: As of git version 2.27, you can now use git switch –orphan <new branch> to create an empty branch with no history. Unlike git checkout –orphan <new branch>, this branch won’t have any files from your current branch (save for those which git doesn’t track). This should be the preferred way to create empty branches with … Read more
Switch to some other branch and delete Test_Branch, as follows: If above command gives you error – The branch ‘Test_Branch’ is not fully merged. If you are sure you want to delete it and still you want to delete it, then you can force delete it using -D instead of -d, as: To delete Test_Branch from remote as well, execute: