Updating an open-source project is fun.

I have updated my System Information project, I used git to push changes to the repo from my local machine. This is not too hard. Add files to the main branch like this. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git add src/iface.hjason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git add src/iface.h Then push the changes to the repo. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents/sysinfo$ git push Username for ‘https://github.com’: john302 Password … Read more

how to use the git clone command through a http proxy.

The git clone command is used to pull the latest code from a GIT repository. But using it through a proxy can be annoying. Here is how to do this. Firstly; define your HTTP proxy information. export HTTP_PROXY="http://Monty.Burns:[email protected]:80"export HTTP_PROXY="http://Monty.Burns:[email protected]:80" Then you need to tell GIT about the proxy. git config –global http.proxy $HTTP_PROXYgit config –global … Read more