Some time ago I wrote the blog “Remove directories and files permanently from git”. Removing files from a git history is not an unusual task and I thought that it would be nice if there is an easier and faster way to do it. I thought that there should be a gui that help you to find […]
When multiple developers work on one project it is also essential that they all commit source code that matches some formatting rules. Otherwise reviewing changes and merging source code can be a great challenge.
When using git repositories you can install hooks. Hooks are any kind of executables that can be run before something happens […]
If you use IBM’s WebSphere plugin for eclipse you might have the problem that other plugins can’t establish an SSL connection anymore. The result is most times a ClassNotFoundException: com.ibm.websphere.ssl.protocol.SSLSocketFactory. This blog explains the reason behind the problem and gives a workaround to prevent that exception.
Problem description
When a component within eclipse (e.g. atlassian jira connector) tries to connect to […]
Some day you might want to remove files or directories from git permanently, because someone committed sensitive data or large binary files that should not reside in the repository to keep clone times short. In this blog I want to show you how to delete directories and files permanently from a git repository.
The first chapter […]
In every project you have to deal with apis and their implementations. While a lot of projects separate the api from it’s implementation through different java packages (mostly named internal or impl), I want to show you another approach and tell you why this approach makes more sense. I call this other approach “implementation […]
