Tag Archives: Git

Mercurial … what happened to you?

Posted on 2026-09-27 by Oliver

Mercurial used to be the VCS that I looked to for several reasons. You can easily clone locally or to a server with the only prerequisite being a remote hg binary

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Reminder to myself

Posted on 2024-05-05 by Oliver

env GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=true GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=0 GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null git … can be used to suppress reading the configuration file. Useful with this error: BUG: refs.c:2083: reference backend is unknown error: git-remote-https died of signal 6 … which is caused by a particular configuration option.

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Changing local Git clone from master to main

Posted on 2021-11-30 by Oliver

I never understood why Git chose master as the default branch name, MAIN in CVS seemed more sensible, but perhaps Torvald’s animosity towards CVS and SVN plays a role. Presumably trunk in SVN is a reference to the tree-like structure, … Continue reading →

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