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Git: Setup Beyond Compare as Difftool and Mergetool
Change config file
Depending on your Git setup (mines Git for Windows). You’ll need to locate your .gitconfig file (mine’s %userpath%/.gitconfig and make the necessary changes below.
Note that the “prompt = false” stops the Y/N prompt for each difftool file compare in the set. Can also be added as git config –global –add difftool.prompt false
Git, Docker and CR/LF world of pain.
Docker
As part of a project myself and a colleague were about to commence work on he’d created a docker image of a lightweight Linux image serving SFTP endpoints to replicate the Dev eco system. It was working like a dream. We were setting up and tearing down the containers happily until we checked out the docker files on my machine and that’s where the fun started…..
Using Deploy Keys with TeamCity and Git
Had a number of TeamCity projects connecting to the Git repo using my user account. Was thinking I should really request for service accounts to do the connection. This becomes a pain when I change my user password as I have to remember to go in to TeamCity and Octopus Deploy to update the passwords on anything using my user account. Really bad practice!