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Python script to synchronise your locally cloned fork to its parent github repository

I recently wrote a python script that syncs your locally clone repository to its parent repository, so I would like you to review it and help me in improving it. ...
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Git pie - Perl oneliner for Git

I often make changes on my code-base and manually using sed, awk or perl -pi -e is not ...
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Breakable Toy: Go CLI for Gitlab

I started to learn programming in Go and came up with a Breakable Toy, which is a CLI for Gitlab. To get something up and running fast, I used some Go libraries: Ginkgo for testing Cobra for basic ...
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Elegantly handle github API requests exceptions

I have this code which creates a team using the github API and returns the team-id(success) or -1(failure). My problem is with the error handling. When the request responses with an error status code ...
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Avoiding shell injection when calling Git in Python

I'm developing a command line application in Python which processes information that users provide. I've been reading the Python documentation on this topic and found that the built-in module ...
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Taking YouTube links out of a list of GitHub repo READMEs

I have a .csv file that contains student GitHub repository assignment submissions. I made a script to go to each repository and extract the YouTube video that they must have provided in their README ...
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Automating the download of a GitHub repo

This script is designed to locate and download the first repository in your sidebar on the GitHub repository page. It downloads the .zip file for that repo and saves it to the default location. I ...
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Tool for blind users who also have NO speech

I'm building an (open source) online tool for users with NO speech who are also blind. The program steps through a list of utterances in a female 'thinking' voice, and when one is selected, speaks it ...
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Script to execute arbitrary command on each Git project in a directory

The idea is simple, most people have some one directory containing all their projects as subdirectories. When you are in the top directory and you run this script like so ...
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CLI app to download a .gitignore file

I have written a simple app that adds gitignore files to the current working directory - it does this by reading files hosted on GitHub and then saving them (...
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Automated backup of remote git repos

This is the first python script I've written. It's used to create a local backup of git repos from BitBucket. It works, but I'd like to make it more pythonic if possible. ...
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Manage Labels in a Gitlab Project

Background This is the first (and only) Go program I've written so far. My employer just formed a small team to make a prototype written in Go ready for production, so I (and everyone else on my ...
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Robust bash function to find the root of a git repository

I'm trying to write robust code which will print the root directory of a git repository. How can I improve this code for: Robustness Style (eg use of subshell ...
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Coloured bash prompt including git status and previous exit code

I wanted to create a short, informational and colourful prompt. My prompt includes: Exit status of last command (if not 0) Distinctive changes when root rsync-...
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Git tag release build files and reset to commit without

This is part of a library that wants to release builded files (eg dist/*) when published to npm and bower. However, I don't want to commit those builded files for ...
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Bash script to simplify Git deployment workflow

In my company I follow the following workflow. (I think it can be defined a kind of 'Continuous Integration'.) Workflow: We have 3 fixed branches (staging/...
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Makefile and main header file for a shell

My main.c includes this header file. Please let me know how I can improve it. I did my best but I don't know much about code conventions in C (I come from Java and ...
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Open github via commandline

I'm learning bash and my goal here is from any repository on my computer to be able to type github and it will open the remote ...
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Recursion into git diff tree using nodegit

I'm using nodegit to develop the backend for a nodejs app that uses a mix of mongodb and git for persistence. The app has to version documents and be able to present diffs between versions, thus the ...
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POSIX shell script using a string to store command arguments

Background I’ve started putting all my configuration files (which include many shell files) under version control. In the Git repository, I’ve configured a pre-commit hook that runs the ...
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Determining if a file or URL is a git repo or archive

I'm getting these three offenses: libraries/helpers.rb:4:1: C: Method has too many lines. [11/10] def get_files(url, file, destination) ^^^ ...
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Bash function to parse git status

I have a function here and wondered how well this can be refactored. I currently have this: ...
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Automatically push git submodule's parents recursively

I'm absolutely terrible with .bat files, but sometimes they are just needed. Right now I'm working on a project with quite some submodules, which have quite some ...
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GitHub API client

Here is my Haskell program designed to list all of my GitHub repos along with their descriptions and languages via the GitHub JSON APIs: ...
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Date of latest GitHub project release

I needed a clean, simple and robust piece of code to retrieve the date of publication of the latest release of a given GitHub Project. My constraints were that it needed to be written in the C++11 ...
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Git Insert Delete Graph

I attempted to recreate the github code frequency graph(example) with a daily granularity using perl and git log. How did I do, ...
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GitHub Auto Copy Committer via API

I did write the GitHub Auto Copy Committer. The purpose is to copy an existing public GitHub repository to in another repository - commit per commit. It's reason is not a full copy of a ...
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Git post-receive hook writen as a POSIX shell script (utilising a named pipe)

This is my first piece of code to post here. I wrote this script as a post-receive hook for a Git repository but I’m not so concerned with the Git parts (I’d like to have the part marked with ...
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Gathering metadata on files in GitHub

I am a relatively new programmer and am currently working on something with the egit GitHub client library which requires me to iterate over a bunch of values and if a condition is met, add a bunch of ...
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Automate branch merging with git

I wanted to learn how to use python to replace bash, and found this old post from 2008 or 2009. The output of git has changed a bit, though, so I decided to remake it. I also decided to try out ...
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Perl pie alternative

Running on Cygwin, I cannot easily use perl -pi -e because it will always produce .bak files even though I don't want them. I ...
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Bash script to remove unwanted git objects

A while ago, someone at our office thought it'd be a great idea to start tracking a number of fairly large binary files in one of our more important repositories. We noticed our builds were slowing ...
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Bash Compress Managed Directory Ignoring .git, bower_components, node_modules, etc

Fairly easy way to compress a wordpress plugin (or similar) as a zip file without including all the dependencies used to create and manage the development, but which don't belong in the final product. ...
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Adding SecureString support to Lib2GitSharp

A library that I use doesn't support SecureString in its credentials for connecting to GitHub, so I'm submitting a pull request to add it. I know it's not ideal to ...
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Local branch update script using Git and PHP

I'm using Git and PHP to create an update script which is sync local branch and the master. It checks about new updates, and if yes, it proceeds to the Git pull request and any response got from the ...
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Use git to get SHA-1 of repo

I've created the function below to get the SHA-1 of the repository used by my CI server. The hash is then used to update the pass/fail status of the commit on GitHub. I'm a python amateur. What ...
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Git merge script

The branches I need to merge are called test and test-passed. Merging will always be fast-forward, from test to test-passed as commits to test-passed are only done automatically from test. This is ...
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Python script that does a git diff

I have created a small script that aims on comparing two versions of a file by doing a git diff. Is there a better way to code it? ...
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Python-based Git pre-commit hook to manage multiple users/Git identities

A couple of months ago I posted a bash script to manage multiple Git identities as a solution on Stack Overflow but soon found the hook isn't flexible enough. Thus I decided to rewrite the hook in ...
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Clone GitHub repository using Python

I want to backup my GitHub repositories since there is news about blocking GitHub in India. I wrote Python code to automate this and would like for it to be reviewed. ...
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Team git commit cleaner

I cleaned a big repository for my team with this Python code. My goal was for every developer in my team to check if some bad email are in the commit, and replace the information by the good one. I ...
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Delegating which module's functions to use based on user input

My main concern with this code is this problem - given that this program could generate a prompt string from Bash, Zsh, Fish, etc., I would like to make this code easily extendable so people can add ...
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Bash script for Git & VSS interop

I have been slowly evolving some code for Git and VSS interop based on a quest I started a while ago And the code is now working, some parts have been updated without test (such as the init) and I am ...
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Monkeypatching __builtin__ in tests for mocking

I'm testing a little magic behaviour of my script that automatically reads from ~/.ghtoken to do automagic authentication on GitHub API requests. I want to test ...
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Ruby script to create git repos

I wrote my first ruby script, by this tutorial. It creates a local and remote git repo. I have been working for about 3 years with PHP, and somehow I find that my ruby script looks incredibly ugly. ...
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Small CLI note manager and publisher

This is my first attempt at trying to make a CLI note manager, than can be easily published on the web. I have made one note and you can see it live here. I have added some comments, and placed the ...
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Bash script for tagging the current git workspace including uncommitted changes

I use the following script to autotag the current workspace while building even if there are changed (not committed) files: ...
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Git hook that checks out branch that was pushed to this repository

Description If you install this hook in your repository and push branch foo-automerge to this repository, this hook will merge this branch into working copy if: ...
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Git commit-msg URL shortener

I have just written my first git hook script. It is very simple that simply finds any URLs in the commit message and uses the Google URL shortener to rewrite the URL nicely. it is located here. I ...
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Git pre-commit hook to check that changes to certain files only happen on the master branch

As a beginner in Ruby, I am trying to optimize this script that is a client side pre-commit hook for git. Was hoping I could get a review to ensure I am following all ruby idioms, and to ensure I ...