December 2014

GitDirStat – a git maintenance gui

René Link
December 28, 2014June 9, 2016
Git

Some time ago I wrote the blog “Remove directories and files permanently from git“. Removing files from a git history is not an unusual task and I thought that it would be nice if there is an easier and faster way to do it. I thought that there should be a gui that help you to find big files in the history and that let you select the files you want to remove with just a click of a button. Therefore I started the GitDirStat project on github and developed a java swing application based on the JGIT library provided by the eclipse community. The name was derived from the popular WinDirStat application or… Read More »GitDirStat – a git maintenance gui

A git checkstyle pre-receive hook

René Link
December 7, 2014June 9, 2016
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Git

When multiple developers work on one project it is also essential that they all commit source code that matches some formatting rules. Otherwise reviewing changes and merging source code can be a great challenge. When using git repositories you can install hooks. Hooks are any kind of executables that can be run before something happens in a git repository like creating a commit or updating the refs during a push command. I developed a small bash script that can be used to execute checkstyle on every push and that rejects changes that have checkstyle errors. The script is simple and easy to configure so I want to share it here. Just… Read More »A git checkstyle pre-receive hook