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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
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
Andrew Fletcher
Build the PHP base image with apache-buster using the Dockerfile.base Since JN...
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
Currently, I have a situation where I have two repositories.  The first is...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
Andrew Fletcher
Accessing a remote server using PEM key, and I had the following...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key? Is putty on your...
Andrew Fletcher
As a web developer, you will most likely need to run local copies of a bunch of different web sites. Regularly switching between several sites daily.  Sometime Drupal, other Laravel and whatever frameworks that are in your toolkit.   Install Docker and Lando Do you have Docker installed?  No, then go to the Docker Desktop page and download. Now let's look in to Lando.  Have a look at the Lando releases on GitHub to download the latest package for your OS. Run the installer. I...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
Andrew Fletcher
First off, this isn't the only method to achieve the outcome of emptying a...
Andrew Fletcher
Clear DNS Cache The DNS (Domain Name Service) cache on your Mac helps browsers...
Andrew Fletcher
Changing git push from passphrase?  There are several ways to tackle this...