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📅 19.01.2023 Git: Git hanging on POST git-receive-pack

What to do after you executed “git push” but the command is hanging in the air.

Solution: Increase the buffer size for the http call.

git config http.postBuffer 5242

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📅 8.11.2022 Docker: Change Entrypoint of container through parameter

What if you have a container that you just want to take a look at but you can’t rebuild? You execute the container with docker run and add the following parameter

docker run --entrypoint bash -ti image-name

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📅 4.11.2022 Docker: Keep container alive

Keep a docker container alive by adding this

ENTRYPOINT ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]

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📅 1.8.2022 Shell: Detach function from shell

I had this situation in which a function was blocking the ongoing process. The solution was to send the functions stdout to /dev/null

function() {
doSomething()
}

main() {
function > /dev/null &
}

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