https://canaltinova.com/blog/tags/git/ Recent content in Git on Nazım Can Altınova Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:19:21 +0200 https://canaltinova.com/blog/posts/dealing-with-multiple-version-controls/ Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:19:21 +0200 https://canaltinova.com/blog/posts/dealing-with-multiple-version-controls/ <p>I love <code>git</code> and I use it all the time. I use it for my personal projects, my dotfiles, my documents and even my home directory. But for work, I need to use <code>mercurial</code> as well as <code>git</code> (mercurial for the <code>mozilla-central</code> mono-repo and git for other repositories, mostly hosted separately on GitHub). I like mercurial too. But there’s a problem: whenever I switch between those version control systems, I always forget which one I&rsquo;m using right now. For example, when I switch from a git repo to a mercurial repo, I use the <code>git</code> command instead of <code>hg</code>. Then I change my command back and run the correct command after getting an error that says this is not a git repository&hellip; That was driving me crazy for a while. Then I came up with a bash function that saves me from rewriting the whole command and acts like the version control system of that repository.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> It’s not perfect and doesn’t solve everything. But it solves most of my issues, so I wanted to write about it in case someone else needs it. By the way, for background, I’m using the <code>g</code> alias for the <code>git</code> command and the <code>h</code> alias for the <code>hg</code> command.</p>