I just want to create a simple gitbook on my local drive, not attached to any remote repository. I went to File->Change Library Path... and pointed to the place where I want my files to go. When I create a new book, Gitbook puts some stuff in that library path that looks right: README.md, etc. But when I change README.md in Gitbook and save the file, it doesn't save to the README.md it created when I created the book. In fact I can't even figure out where it saved my changes, even after doing a find/grep on my entire hard drive.
Edit: I need to know where it saves, so I can run the command-line gitbook to create a pdf.
Which OS are you using?
On Windows, the default directory is C:\Users\username\GitBook
I had troubles with this when I first started too.
Here is some background that may help you
There are three flavors of gitbook: The online editor (storage is on Gitbook.com or Github), the offline editor (same storage + local at C:\Users\Documents\Gitbook), and the CLI toolchain (any storage you desire).
If you talking about issuing commands, you want to install the toolchain
If you are running Windows, I can't help, but when you switch to Ubuntu :) go to toolchain.gitbook.com to see the the instructions.
Hope this helps
Yes, its weird that the changes are not immediately reflected in the physical file. I changed something and saved again, that actually made the first save visible. :D Try it once, this may work for you too.
Gitbook Editor works with git history only. So externally edited and not committed files in that folder will not be identified in the editor. However, when you save the files in gitbook editor, it creates a commit and then only it will be reflected in the physical drive location.
You can find more about the issue here: https://github.com/GitbookIO/feedback/issues/101
Currently there's no way to explicitly tell GitBook where to store files, however we use a simple workaround which allows us to use the GitBook Editor to edit a book in our own git repository but keep control of how and when we commit changes.
We have a docs directory in our project which contains the gitbook which is symlinked to the folder GitBook uses to store its own books. This directory has its own .git folder ignored from a parent directory as we don't need GitBooks commits.
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I accidentally deleted a wrong file in Visual Studio 2019 before commiting the changes. I lost not a lot of work but I want to prevent this in future.
Can I setup VS 2019 somehow that files are not immediately deleted but kept in a cache for a while?
Supposedly there is already a backup folder which VS uses for deleted files, but this folder was empty in my case. And also the fact that VS moves files into the Windows bin doesn't help me because my repository is not on the system drive.
Do you know about any settings in VS or is there maybe an extension?
Not exactly what you are looking for but this extension could help you. It migth not prevent the deletion, but give you the opportunity to recover the code.
I haven`t tested it and I am also not sure if it will work with VS2019.
A visual source code plugin for maintaining local history of files.
Every time you modify a file, a copy of the old contents is kept in the local history. At any time, you can compare a file with any older version from the history. It can help you out when you change or delete a file by accident. The history can also help you out when your workspace has a catastrophic problem. Each file revision is stored in a separate file inside the .history folder of your workspace directory (you can also configure another location, see local-history.path).
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xyz.local-history
The answer here is to use a version control system (like git) and keep a full history of your project.
Even on simple personal projects it is worth doing.
I was thinking to use dropbox to upload my source code of a web-application. For this folder i would create a shared link. This link i like to use to download all the latest source files on my test server (instead of using s/FTP).
Now i know you can use dropbox with linux by installing their version, but it requires to create account. I don't want to use a account, and for sure don't want to use my own account.
Is there anyway to use a shared (folder) link, and download all the files in that folder command-line, without a account (maybe something like wget) ? There is no need for live-syncing, it would be fine to trigger the download with some bash script.
Thanks.
If you're ok with your links being public (which i think is not a good idea) , then you can just create a file with a list of links to your files and then create a bash script to loop over each line of the file get the link with wget
If you want to use authentication, you'll have to register for a Dropbox API key and then create a script (in python,ruby or java etc) to authenticate and get the files.
If you don't have a specific need for dropbox, i'll recommend you use git (or similar). With git you'll just have to create the repository on your server and clone it on your desktop. Then you can just edit your files and push it to the server.... it's so much easier.
Rogier, github has become the norm for hosting code. There are other options (Sourceforge, Google Code, Beanstalk) or you can set up a private git repository on your own computer.
Somewhere deep in my browser history there's an article about how to do that.
However a little googling turned up http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652414. Let me know if you can't find some satisfactory instructions on your own of how to set up a git repo on your computer.
I want to move only the website files changed since the published revision to a hosting account using SSH or FTP. The hosting account is Linux based but does have have any version control installed, so I can't simply do an update there, and the solution must run on the local development machines.
I'm essentially trying to do what http://www.deployhq.com/ does, but for free. I want to publish changes without having to re-upload everything or manually choose the files to move. I'm open to simply using a bash script that compares versions and copies each file (how? not that great with bash) since we'll be using Linux for development, but something with a web interface would be nice.
Thanks in advance for the help!
This seems more like a job for rsync than one for hg, given that that target doesn't have hg installed.
Something like so:
rsync -avz /path/to/local/files/ remote_host:/remote/path/
This would transfer all files, recursively (-r), from .../local/files/ and place them in /remote/path. The -az compresses and perserves file attributes.
rsync takes care of only transferring files that have changed. Be sure to watch for trailing slashed when specifying source paths, they matter (see the link above).
I forgot to check out a source code file before modifying it.
When I get last revision, Perforce overwrote that file, so my work is totally lost.
Is it possible to recover the file?
For future use, update your client workspace so that you specify "noallwrite, noclobber". If noclobber is set, Perforce will not overwrite your writable un-opened files: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/client.html
Only if your editor or your operating system saved a copy or it's been modified long enough that it made its way to your backups. Perforce will not make copies of such files, it blindly assumes that you didn't lie and will always honestly tell it when you want to edit a file.
if you are using eclipse then its possible to retrieve the local version using Compare With -> Local history . It helped me.
This has happened to me recently. For some reason, after I "p4 sync"-ed my workspace, and do p4 resolve, I noticed that my changes to a file were missing. I'm not sure if my changes were not saved or I haven't checked out the file. But I really remembered that my changes were saved. :(
I have been using Visual Studio for development and it doesn't have local history unlike in Eclipse. Luckily, that file is a javascript file and I have been testing my application in Internet Explorer. Since IE does some caching on some internet data like js files, what I did is to check the directory where it saves temporarily files (Internet Options -> Browser history settings ) there you'll see different versions of the files saved. I did recover my files! It was really just luck!
After that incident, I installed a plugin for visual studio for storing local history of files everytime it's being saved. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/226c2108-9da9-407d-b90d-9783040d27b8
Best thing to avoid these cases is to:
branch out your files first into a separate devline during development and submit every milestones you accomplished
incrementally. In this way you'll always have versions of important
changes you do during development. After this you could
integrate it back to the parent branch/mainline.
http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB_Article/Branching-Codelines-and-Merging-Changes
Hope this helps!
If you fired the following command (which is a FORCE sync option), only then will Perforce update ALL your files.. including ones which are WRITABLE. The only exception is that any file that you have OPENED in perforce will not be overwritten. So if your file was made WRITABLE using OS command, and not using p4 open.. they will get overwritten by p4 sync -f.
p4 sync -f
The other possibility is that you did p4 sync, and still perforce overwrote your writable files (which were not opened using p4) because your workspace settings don't have noallwrite, noclobber specified. Usually by default, these settings are already specified, so that Perforce doesn't clobber writable files.
How do I download a ZIP file of an entire project from Google Code when there are no prepared downloads available?
This is what I see on the checkout page:
Command-line access
Use this command to anonymously check out the latest project source code:
svn checkout http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ myproject-read-only
But I'm working on Windows and I don't have the svn binaries ... do I need these?
I can access individual source code file or view the Subversion HTML pages, but that just allows me to access source code files one-by-one.
If you don't want to install anything but do want to download an SVN or GIT repository, then you can use this: http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/
I have nothing to do with this project, but I just used it now and it saved me a few minutes. Maybe it will help someone.
If you install TortoiseSVN you can use SVN under windows. It also gives you the SVN binaries. You needn't do the checkout from the command-line though as it integrates into Windows Explorer for you.
If you don't want to install TortoiseSVN, you can simply install 'Subversion for Windows' from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/
After installing, just open up a command prompt, go the folder you want to download into, then past in the checkout command as indicated on the project's 'source' page. E.g.
svn checkout http://projectname.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ projectname-read-only
Note the space between the URL and the last string is intentional, the last string is the folder name into which the source will be downloaded.
Thanks Mr. Tom Chantler
adding that to get the exe http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/ to pull the SVN source
just note that suppose you're downloading the below project:
you have to enter exactly the following to donwload it in the exe URL:
http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
developer not taking care of appending the h t t p : / / if it does not exist.
Hope it saves somebody's time.
Another simple solution without the TortoiseSVN overhead is RapidSVN. It is a lightweight open-source SVN client that is easy to install and easy to use.
The Download SVN tool did also work quite well, but it had problems with SVN repositories that don't provide a web interface. RapidSVN works fine with those.
If you have a github account and don't want to download software, you can export to github, then download a zip from github.