Tag: Git

Use SSH for Git Authentication in Azure DevOps

If you work with Azure DevOps Git repos, SSH is often the simplest, most secure, and most policy‑friendly way to authenticate. Many organizations disable Personal Access Tokens (PATs) for security reasons, which breaks HTTPS cloning and pushes. If you’ve seen this error when using HTTPS, you’ve run into such a policy:

Top 5 Git Commit Message Best Practises in 2024

When you join a project as a new developer, you see one thing above all: no standards for Git commit messages. Some put emojis in the message, others write in the present tense, others in the past tense. But which top 5 rules for Git commit messages have actually become established in the open source community?

Easily update all git submodules

I often use a larger Visual Studio solutions to handle a bunch of simple NuGet projects. And more often I only update references or NuGet packages.

Git Flow mit Visual Studio Team Services

Git Flow

Der Git Flow - früher ein Plugin, heute Bestandteil von Git - ist ein bewährter Workflow, wie mit Hilfe von Branches zusammen im Team an einer Software gearbeitet wird. Dies wird auch bei der Initialisierung eines git-Repositories abgefragt: