what is the correct way to update a plugin via tortoise svn to the repository?

I’m embarrassed to say that I am a bit clueless on the procedure used to update a plugin via tortoise svn even though my plugin has been on the repository for years and had over 300,000 downloads! there’s a lot of questions about svn here but they’ve only confused me further :-z somehow I’ve managed … Read more

How do you clone a Git repository into a specific folder?

Executing the command git clone [email protected]:whatever creates a directory in my current folder named whatever, and drops the contents of the Git repository into that folder: /httpdocs/whatever/public My problem is that I need the contents of the Git repository cloned into my current directory so that they appear in the proper location for the web … Read more

Remove a file from a Git repository without deleting it from the local filesystem

My initial commit contained some log files. I’ve added *log to my .gitignore, and now I want to remove the log files from my repository. git rm mylogfile.log will remove a file from the repository, but will also remove it from the local file system. How can I remove this file from the repo without … Read more

How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?

I want to be able to do the following: Create a local branch based on some other (remote or local) branch (via git branch or git checkout -b) Push the local branch to the remote repository (publish), but make it trackable so git pull and git push will work immediately. How do I do that? … Read more