The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the
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Use a Git commit message template to write better commit messages
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How to flash MIUI Fastboot ROM from Linux
- Download the fastboot ROM suitable for your device from the MIUI site and extract the downloaded archive [edit: MIUI page is dead. Use Xiaomi Firmware Updater]
- Download and extract the Android SDK Platform Tools
- Make sure
adbandfastboot(components of platform-tools) are in your
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Steps to enable GPG signing of git commits.
If anyone is interested in setting up their system to automatically (or manually) sign their git commits with their GPG key, here are the steps:
- Generate and add your key to GitHub
$ git config --global commit.gpgsign true([OPTIONAL] every commit will now be signed)$ git config --global user.signingkey ABCDEF01(whereABCDEF01is the fingerprint of the key to use)$ git config --global alias.logs "log --show-signature"(now available as$ git logs)$ git config --global alias.cis "commit -S"(optional if global signing is false)$ echo "Some content" >> example.txt$ git add example.txt$ git cis -m "This commit is signed by a GPG key."(regularcommitwill work if global signing is enabled)
