How to unlink Epic from Epic in Jira Cloud?

How can we discuss about unlinking one Epic from another, if Epic-to-Epic linking is not possible in Atlassian Jira?

Well… technically saying and by definition, you cannot link an Epic to another Epic. However, there’s a bug in most recent version of Jira Cloud that in fact allows you to do this.

Git workflow for modern projects

After four years of a break for doing some management stuff and other non-development tasks I have decided to get back into coding (or at least to start thinking about getting back to it). First thing was to prepare development environment in general and refresh git flow knowledge in particular.

This article is a mixture of both my old article about Git+Gerrit workflows and Git workflow for Yii 2 contributors article. I assumed minimalist approach to make it possible to use this new workflow for virtually any Git-based project. Thus, I have purged most of, if not all of the things that are specific to Gerrit and Yii2.

Before continuing with this article, make sure that:

• you have your very own GitHub account,
• you have Git for Windows and Git Bash installed and configured,
• password-less connection to GitHub is correctly configured,
• you have mastered basic git diagram,
• you have got familiar with GitHub basics,
• you have refreshed your general git knowledge by at least browsing The Git Book,

In addition, you may want to change the Git Bash’s prompt to something, you are more familiar with.

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Show closed Jira tickets as last

For some of my JIRA filters (and for JIRA lists on some of my Confluence pages) I need to display all closed JIRA tickets as last and all in progress in the beginning of list. Using ORDER BY status failed because Closed isn’t neither first nor last status name when ordering status names alphabetically.

Searching Internet also didn’t help, but I managed to find a cool workaround:

ORDER BY resolution DESC

It assumes that any JIRA ticket in progress has resolution set to Unresolved which in JIRA means “empty value” and causes all tickets with such resolution to be displayed first and all tickets with Resolution != Unresolved to be displayed as last.

Images in GitHub’s wikis

GitHub is the best place (known to me) for doing a not-too-much-demanding management or collaboration of not-too-big projects. It offers you (of course!) repository hosting, powered by simple, yet effective bug and issues management and wiki pages for help or guides for your project. And the only problem, that beginners usually face, is hosting images for that wikis. GitHub allows you to upload images to issues in issue tracker and does all the dirty work of hosting them for you. But, a bummer appears, when it comes to images in wikis, because Add image button in any wiki page editor allows you to enter URL only and there is no way to simply upload them to your wiki.

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Private repository with public issues on GitHub

On contrary to BitBucket, GitHub does not allow you to have private repository with public issues. But, you can setup a two different repositories — private for code hosting and public for issues (read more in GitHub Help). And, what is most important and what not everyone knows — GitHub’s commit message’s grammar parsing is powerful enough to handle crossed commits.

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Move repository from GitHub to Gogs or any other remote

This is basically a check-list on pushing entire local repository, with all branches, tags and entire history to brand new remote repository and changing default remote setting in local repostiory from one to another. A compilation of this and this answers on Stack Overflow plus some own thoughts. Gogs and GitHub are quite similar to each other and all operations an made on command-line, so you can use this article as an aid in migrating one remote repository to another.

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Installing Gogs on Windows [discontinued]

This article is unfinished and discontinued! It contains a lot of useful information, but will not lead you to the very end. The only reason, for which I wanted to install and use Gogs was the fact, that my programming model (Yii2-based) required me to have a really large number of private repositories (each for every component, that my applications are using). And storing them on GitHub was very expensive.

However, as of May 11, 2016 GitHub has announced an unlimited number of private repositories available for every paid plan. This rendered Gogs completely useless for me. But, in the same time, it was also a very relief for me, because even though a whole long year passed since I started writing this article, I have never actually even touched problem of reconfiguring Composer to use source other than GitHub (Gogs).

Feel free to use this article to learn more about Gogs and its installation on Windows, but keep in mind, that this artice is unfinished and pretty much likely will never be finished.

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Git diagram for data transport commands

If you’re unfamiliar with data transport commands in Git or have troubles understanding the idea of four “buckets” (workspace, index, local repository and remote repository) or you’re generally a newbie to Git, then there’s a great answer at Stack Overflow, which basically is a diagram image taken from Oliver Steele’s blog and that actually explains everything! :>

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Setting up new project in Gerrit

Because Gerrit is evil and wrong (see here for details), even such simple task,like creating a new project, requires a separate document and todo list. Also, keep in mind, that you can’t delete a project through web GUI of Gerrit. This is most wanted and requested feature of this dully project management tool, but still hasn’t been implemented for years. So, create your new project wisely, because you won’t be able to delete them, without playing around console, installing some third-party plugins or doing stupidities similar to this.

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Git+Gerrit workflow for modern projects

Here, you’ll find some tips on how to add (review and merge) a change to Gerrit. And a list of common pitfalls. Article is focused on detailed flow of described process with a short version (checklist) of it provided at the very end of this long text.

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Completely remove file from local and remote (GitHub) repository

This is the short version of “Remove sensitive data” article in GitHub Help. And an alternative solution to the one presented [here](Remove file from repository and from all revisions.txt). It assumes, that you are the only collaborator to repository, so you can perform steps at once (you don’t have to contact others and wait until they rebase your changes) and that your repository doesn’t use tags, so you don’t have to perform all steps.

If any these two assumptions is not correct in your case, then avoid this article and rather follow to mentioned article. Keep in mind, however, that in some certain situations, you have to contact GitHub Support in order to finish entire procedure.

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Undo last Git commit using git undo-commit command

There are probably thousands of websites telling you, how to undo the last Git commit. For example, one of the most voted up questions on Stack Overflow. But none of them (or actually nearly none of them) answers, how to do this using git undo-commit. Simply because, such command does not exist! :> Therefore, the title of this text should rather sound “Defining own Git alias to undo last Git commit“, since this article is focused on git aliases rather than on undoing last commit in Git.

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Differences between ‘ssh-keygen’ and ‘Puttygen’ SSH keys

There are some key differences between SSH keys generated by ssh-keygen and Puttygen, so you may run into problems importing or adding kesy generated by the latter one, while importing ssh-keygen‘s keys goes swimmingly. Here are some tips on this problem. Of course, we’re talking about public SSH keys, as private one are secret and shouldn’t be added or imported anywhere.

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Fork company repo as a regular GitHub user

Say, I wanted to get a fork of all my work (entire repository) from a company repo before being expelled from accessing this repo.

Sure, it is possible. Only this is called a mirror, not a fork.

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Using TortoiseDiff and TortoiseMerge in Atlassian SourceTree

I’m using SourceTree along with TortoiseMerge/Diff, which is very easy and convenient diff/merge tool. But, because it isn’t that easy and convenient to install and configure both tools, I wrote this simple memo-post to have check-list for future reference in one place.

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Remove file from repository and from all revisions [updated]

Say, that you have commited to a Git repository, a file, that contains sensitive or confidential information. You want to literally purge it from the repository history.

Simple git rm --cached <file> won’t do the trick. It will remove a file from the repository (keeping it in your working directory), but it will still keep the file in history. What now?

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BitBucket vs. Redmine — VCS and repo management tools compare

Here comes comparison in version control systems and project management tools. I’m going to compare cloud-hosted BitBucket with self-hosted Redmine. As some of you may already expect, the result can be only one.

For me, personally, BitBucket is an absolute, undoubted winner in this field.

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BitBucket vs. GitHub — VCS and repo management tools compare

I decided to migrate from GitHub to BitBucket purely for economic reasons.

On GitHub I can’t have any private repository in my free account. I have to pay for every non-open source project that I host there. On BitBucket I can have unlimited number of private repos and I’m only paying for users, that has access to each of my repository (first five users are free).

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Gerrit’s brute-force mode, if everything else fails

There’s an convinient and quite easy way to get yourself back to work, once you stucked with something really stupid (most likely — changes’ dependencies, a Gerrit’s Prime Hell) and everything else fails. It is a brute-force mode, that actually don’t mess too much and may help in amy hopeless situations.

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Should I commit .gitignore files and other Git-ignoring issues

This text is a summary of my “Should I commit .gitignore file” question, and a few others (not mine), asked at Stack Overflow. It gathers all the useful answers, comments and facts about ignoring files and folders in Git. This is presented as quick-review checklist.

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Please rebase the change locally and upload again for review

You’ve passed all the way of flames, blood and pain, through Gerrit, you done reviewing a change and you’re ready to click Review and Publish button. You hit it and Gerrit hits you with: Project policy requires all submissions to be a fast-forward. Please rebase the change locally and upload again for review. How, the hell this happend and how to handle this?

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Gerrit is wrong. Gerrit is evil!

Gerrit is wrong. Gerrit is evil. Gerrit is the beginning of all hell! If you’re considering using it as version control system, you’re most likely out of your mind! And you’re asking yourself for a big troubles. If you’re forced to use it (like I was), then believe me… your worst nightmares are ahead of you. Nothing, you seen in code review or version control systems up until now, hasn’t prepared you for the pain you’re about to suffer…

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