Articles about Git
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PrestaShop ZIP archives repository is available
Keeping past PrestaShop versions
In order to make sure old release packages remain available for anyone who needs them, we published a new GitHub repository “ZIP Archives”, which aims to store all published PrestaShop ZIP archives.
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How to rebase your Git branch
git rebase can be tricky, but remains your friend!
Contributing code to PrestaShop can be scary for first-timers, because not everyone knows how Git works. By the time you have figured how to properly push your changes to GitHub, the codebase has changed, rendering your suggestions impossible to merge – leading to frustration on both sides. It’s high time you learn about git rebase.
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Set up your Git for contributing
Tweak your git configuration to work better
Any open source project comes with its own set of rules to harmonize everybody’s contributions. Usually the guidelines are described in a CONTRIBUTING.md file inside the project root directory.
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Create the perfect .gitignore file for your PrestaShop projects
Commit only the right files
As a serious developer, you need to use versioning (or “revision control”) for your projects, in order to track changes to your files… and be able to travel back in time when a disaster happens. There are many CVS (Concurrent Versions System) available out there today, but Git is by far the most popular in 2015, and one of the most used in the Open Source world, right behind Subversion (svn).
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