Open Source Contributions

Thu, 30 May 2019 12:00:00 +0000

During my daily work, whenever I notice bugs, lack of documentation or features that could be useful in open source software I use, I make an attempt to contribute back during my free time. Maintainers generally welcome contributions, guide you and give good feedback during the process. I get pretty excited when an open source contribution gets accepted. Just compiling a list of contributions I’ve made so far.

Dropwizard

A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

Metrics

Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what’s going on.

Java-faker

Brings the popular ruby faker gem to Java

Fastimage

FastImage finds the size or type of an image given its uri by fetching as little as needed

Handle protocol relative urls

Frequently used Git commands

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:00:00 +0000

With my experience using Git so far, which is quite minimal, I have found the following commands to be extremely handy. I’ll keep updating this post from time to time, if I do come across other useful commands. Please note that some of these commands are not recommended as they might re-write history which may not be preferable. Also since I’m relatively new to git, some of these practices may not be advised. I would love to hear feedback regarding this post and about best practices to be followed.

In situations where your local repository is out of sync and you want to get it sync it with the central repository -

git reset --hard HEAD
git clean -f
git pull

To remove the most recent commit -

git reset --hard HEAD^

The “Branch-Edit-Commit-Merge” workflow -

git checkout -b branch-name
# Make changes
git commit -a -m "Change made"
git checkout master
git merge branch-name

To combine the last n commits into a single commit -

# Replace n with the number of commits to combine
git reset --soft HEAD~n &&
git commit

Forcefully push to a repository -

git push heroku master --force

Rebasing -

git checkout new-feature
git rebase master
git checkout master
git merge new-feature

To check out a remote git branch -

# Works with git versions >= 1.6.6
git fetch
git checkout <branch_name>

If you want to dicard or keep your uncommited changes to a branch aside, and continue to work on it later -

git checkout . # To discard changes
git stash      # To keep changes aside
git stash pop  # To bring them back

Syncing a repository with a fork -

git remote add upstream <repository_url> # To configure a remote to point to the upstream repository
git fetch upstream # Fetches from the upstream repository and stores it in upstream/master
git checkout master
git merge upstream/master

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