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Andrew Fletcher
I'm in an environment where the default branch is staging and I'm attempting to run a git merge.  However, in actioning this command, I'm been greeted with the following response 'not something we can merge' ❯ git merge origin/{branch} merge: origin/{branch} - not something we can mergeTo resolve this, first I attempted to do a git checkout to the branch But this was swiftly meet with "did not match any file(s) known to git" git checkout {branch} error: pathspec '{branch}' did not match...
Andrew Fletcher
How to count the number of files in a directory.  At some point you'll have...
Andrew Fletcher
I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you remove a file from git? Use the command (rm) to remove files from...
Andrew Fletcher
Moving a Git repo due to a change of agencies   Steps to change the...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the copy [cp] command.  This came about due to 'upgrading' the server from Centos 6 to 7.  Once I had migrated a domain, I ran the following command yes | cp -rf 'stg/core' 'tmpdir'To my surprise, the first run of this command took over 38 minutes to complete.  Crap!  Yes a simple cp -a command is a very painful and slow process.  Read more about the pain and times under Centos 7 in this...
Andrew Fletcher
Warning from Google Play Store when uploading an App You must complete the...
Andrew Fletcher
Uploading a new version of an Android app to Google Play and I'm seeing this...
Andrew Fletcher
Whilst uploading a new version of our Android app, I had the following error...
Andrew Fletcher
If you have a situation where either you have forgotten a Keystore password or...
Andrew Fletcher
I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a Ubuntu backup shell script.  With a backup in hand, now it was time to test how to unpack a backup and overwrite the directories. First I unpacked the backup to a temporary directory tmp-cc. Now I wanted to replace several of the directories on the server.  Starting with home, var and etc.   But what is an efficient method to overwrite a directory?   Also removing any directories that aren't in the...
Andrew Fletcher
What I'm seeing in Android Studio when attempting to run the...
Andrew Fletcher
Android Studio error Installation did not succeed. The application could not be...
Andrew Fletcher
Android Studio error error: package android.support.v4.content does not...
Andrew Fletcher
Android Studio build errors Build failed error: cannot find symbol if...