git clone is how you get a local copy of an existing repository to work on. It’s usually only used once for a given repository, unless you want to have multiple working copies of it around. (Or want to get a clean copy after messing up your local one…) git pull (or git fetch + … Read more
I copied and pasted the whole line git clone http://…. The character between git clone and http://… looks like a space, but it is a special Unicode character! Short answer: After removing this character, and entering a real space, it worked! For people who love details: I see two ways to reveal ascii vs special-unicode-characters … Read more
The below command (git version 1.8.3) will convert the shallow clone to regular one git fetch –unshallow Then, to get access to all the branches on origin (thanks @Peter in the comments) git config remote.origin.fetch “+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*” git fetch origin
A safe way is to serialize the object, then deserialize. This ensures everything is a brand new reference. Here’s an article about how to do this efficiently. Caveats: It’s possible for classes to override serialization such that new instances are not created, e.g. for singletons. Also this of course doesn’t work if your classes aren’t … Read more
You could add it as an extension method: public static T[] SubArray<T>(this T[] data, int index, int length) { T[] result = new T[length]; Array.Copy(data, index, result, 0, length); return result; } static void Main() { int[] data = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }; int[] sub = data.SubArray(3, … Read more
Git This answer includes GitHub as many folks have asked about that too. Local repositories Git (locally) has a directory (.git) which you commit your files to and this is your ‘local repository’. This is different from systems like SVN where you add and commit to the remote repository immediately. Git stores each version of … Read more
Important Note BinaryFormatter has been deprecated, and will no longer be available in .NET after November 2023. See BinaryFormatter Obsoletion Strategy I’ve seen a few different approaches to this, but I use a generic utility method as such: public static T DeepClone<T>(this T obj) { using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) { var formatter = … Read more
If your elements are value types, then you can just do: List<YourType> newList = new List<YourType>(oldList); However, if they are reference types and you want a deep copy (assuming your elements properly implement ICloneable), you could do something like this: List<ICloneable> oldList = new List<ICloneable>(); List<ICloneable> newList = new List<ICloneable>(oldList.Count); oldList.ForEach((item) => { newList.Add((ICloneable)item.Clone()); }); … Read more
Create a copy constructor: class DummyBean { private String dummy; public DummyBean(DummyBean another) { this.dummy = another.dummy; // you can access } } Every object has also a clone method which can be used to copy the object, but don’t use it. It’s way too easy to create a class and do improper clone method. … Read more
First fetch the new master from the upstream repository, then rebase your work branch on that: git fetch origin # Updates origin/master git rebase origin/master # Rebases current branch onto origin/master Update: Please see Paul Draper’s answer for a more concise way to do the same – recent Git versions provide a simpler way to … Read more