Tag: Git

How to clean up branches in local Git repository

The git branches in local repository will grow rapidly if you are using branch development, e.g. always create a new branch for any new feature/story/bug-fix.

The branch becomes useless after it merged to master, here’s some commands to clean up branches in local repository.

Remove remote branches which have been deleted on remote repository

Using any of the following commands to remove branches which have been deleted on remote repository, e.g. branch deleted after merge to master

  git fetch --prune
  git pull --prune

If you are on git 1.8.5+ you can set this action to happen during each pull

git config fetch.prune true

Remove local branches which not following remote branch

List local branches which not following remote branch

git branch -vv | grep '\[origin/[^ ]*: gone\]' \
  | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep -v master

Remove the above branches

git branch -vv | grep '\[origin/[^ ]*: gone\]' \
  | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep -v master \
  | xargs git branch -d

Backup WordPress to Version Control Automatically

I migrated my WordPress blog to a VPS hosting recently, and after that, the first thing that came to my mind was: Backup.

There were a lot of similar posts on the Internet, but what I found was not good enough for me, so I wrote what I did in this article to help people who want to do the similar things. It would be great if you have better ideas and please feel free to let me know.

The following scripts had been tested on: Ubuntu 13.04 and MySQL 5.5. The directory and scripts may need to be changed for different Linux distributions.

The Problem

First, we need to answer the questions: what do we want to backup, what do not, and where to save the backup.

What do we want to backup? everything not from the setup, which includes:

  • Posts, Pages and Comments. They are the most important things that we want to backup.
  • Uploaded Media Files. They are the same important with the posts/pages.
  • The Installed Themes and Plugins. I don’t want to search, install, and customize them again, especially the colors.

Ok, that’s sounds reasonable, but is there anything you don’t want to backup? Continue reading “Backup WordPress to Version Control Automatically”