Git log [code language="bash"] git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s" [/code] Adding it to the bash script [code language="bash"] echo "alias gitl='git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s"'" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc…
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Stop Ubuntu going into suspended mode Disable suspend $ sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sleep.target → /dev/null. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/suspend.target →…
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Recently my apt-get install didn't work in Ubuntu 10.04 and I couldn't spend time to fix the source list when it didn't work straight forward.…
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Sometimes you may want to take a snapshot of the current state of your virtual machine (in my case Ubuntu Linux) so that you can revert back to it if anything goes wrong in the virtual machine. The feature in VirtualBox which helps in this is called a snapshot. A snapshot is basically a backup of your virtual machine in its current state.
Problem Description Suppose you have a local GIT repository where dev-stable-topic is the development branch and time to time the releases are made to…
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Merge Conflict Often you will encounter merge conflicts while doing rebase operation as described above. Here, is a example merge conflict error: [code language="bash"] $…
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I was facing an issue recently and it is like this. I run a Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machine on a Windows guest. Because of my…
