...irectory-filter of filter-branch was key. The fact that you used it essentially proves there's no easier way - you had no choice but to rewrite history, since you wanted to end up with only a (renamed) subset of the files, and this by definition changes the hashes. Since none of the standard command...

... I say it's a bad idea, generally (with some exceptions, perhaps). First, your database should be backed up regularly, so you should never be in a situation where you would lose data permanently because of a DELETE (unless it's a deletion of just-adde...

... Yes, HTML and XML don't allow to nest comments using <!--. What you can do in your own code is define a comment element and ignore it actively during parsing. – Aaron Digulla Jan 14 '09 at 14:06 ...

...ceeds the size of the stack, and it has to be re-created. So there can actually, depending on the use case, be a performance increase when using new Array() because you can prevent the overflow from happening. As pointed out in this answer, new Array(5) will not actually add five undefined items to...

...ts looking at the history of specific files (and directories), so you can call it like this: git log my/file.c If you really only want to list the one most recent commit, for example to use it in a script, use the -n 1 option: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H -- my/file.c --pretty=format:%h tel...

...strings containing numbers. You can convert them to "1" and "0", if you really want, but I'm not sure why you'd want that.) The reason your code doesn't work is because using ['female'] on a column (the second 'female' in your w['female']['female']) doesn't mean "select rows where the value is 'fe...

... First of all, I recommend this article: Java: When to create a final class If they do, when do they use it so I can understand it better and know when to use it. A final class is simply a class that can't be extended. (It doe...

...fault represents the dates with datetime64[ns] even though the dates are all daily only. I wonder whether there is an elegant/clever way to convert the dates to datetime.date or datetime64[D] so that, when I write the data to CSV, the dates are not appended with 00:00:00 . I know I can conver...

...nother subset of classes get logged to a file on network drive A; and then all messages from everywhere get logged to a file on network drive B"? And do you see yourself tweaking it every couple of days? If you can answer yes to any of the above questions, go with Log4j. If you answer a definite n...

...ction to the server while sending a statement, it immediately and automatically tries to reconnect once to the server and send the statement again. However, even if mysql succeeds in reconnecting, your first connection has ended and all your previous session objects and settings are lost: temporary ...