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git checkout --ours -- * --theirs would do the opposite, i.e. keep the changes from branch-y. Don't forget to git add later!
I noticed I have the ability Participate Everywhere even though I do not meet the requirements (Having roughly 75% of my posts to be positively received, with a minimum of 5 positively-recieved pos...
MWE In the terminal run: mkdir mwe cd mwe mkdir dir touch f1.txt f2.pdf dir/f1.txt dir/f2.pdf git init . Create a .gitignore with: * # ignore all !dir/ # except this directory ...
There's still time This scenario is not yet a problem for this site, but we will get there, since it's a huge problem for Stack Overflow This topic should be separately addressed, too. At ti...
My take on this: Q&A sites used to fill two distinct roles, but only one of these (the more boring one that doesn't matter anyway) is usurped by LLMs. The interesting one is not yet in danger o...
In computer programming, an expression is something that yields a value. A statement performs an action. For example, let us look at some pseudocode. Let's assume that we want to calculate the su...
My redirect in javascript somehow gets "hijacked" and I don't understand how. Previous developer (who is no longer working with the company) on page load initialized onbeforeunload event like so: ...
In Python, multiprocessing is easy to do if you follow a "list projection" paradigm. Say you want to take a list of inputs X and apply some function f to every x_i, such that y_i = f(x_i) and the y...
Another reason could be to allow to perform the merge without auto commit and no fast-forward: git merge the_branch --no-commit --no-ff This allows reviewing the merged changes before they are ...
New LLMs like ChatGPT are now creating competition with Q&A sites like Codidact and StackOverflow. Moreover, this is parasitic: LLMs get "boosted" by Q&A sites because they can use them for...
I would like to see questions asking for help finding resources be considered on topic, but I would suggest creating a seperate category for them, like how Photography and Outdoors have one for Gea...
In order to test that coredumps are generated and that they contain useful information which can be retreived with gdb I need to generate a SIGSEGV. Or anything else which causes a coredump. The co...
Why parenthesis don't work as you expect You seem to have a rough idea how the this keyword is resolved, so I'll skip explaining that and go straight to your question. I was surprised to find that...
Qt's SLOT macro is very specific in what it accepts. When specifying a slot in the connect function, it's required to put parenthesis, so the correct code would be: connect(ui->pushButton, SIGNA...
The best practice here is, Don't deploy your .git folder to your web server. Then there's nothing to protect.
Although spreadsheets were never really intended for text processing, I think a formula solution is possible (LibreOffice 5.4.3.2): For the first example above: =(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"XYZ",""...
I was thinking about meaningful content that can be migrated (+ improved) from Stack Overflow. These categories pop into my mind: closed questions: we know Stack Overflow is very picky when it co...
As Lundin points out, there are quite a few whitespace-sensitive programming languages out there, where automatic wrapping would change the apparent meaning of the code, such as Phython or JavaScri...
Code blocks that are wider than the column they're trying to fit in now get horizontal scrollbars. As noted in another answer, it's not safe to assume that line-wrapping won't change the correctne...
tl;dr: No. From an engineering perspective, you might be asking if a concatenation operator can be used in place of a logical ‘and’ operator. This is obviously specific to a particular language, bu...
I believe the term "hook" comes from the Windows API where you can register "hooks" - callback functions - to respond to certain events, optionally replacing the original behavior. Not necessarily ...
The best way to estimate this is to measure it, for instance by importing a backup of the production database into a new instance and run your scripts there. Short of that, you could consult the ex...
In programming instead of arrowcode where one has many layers of indented if statements, you can return a result as soon as possible. So instead of, if if end if end if It looks like if ret...
This is a current limitation of the software. Right now, there is simply no way to add detailed feedback to the close reason. There is a list of pre-written close reasons (which can be set per site...
Solution 1: Honestly, it is a best practice used by current frameworks (symfony, laravel) to use an .env file that you will have into the .gitignore. On the otherside, you will commit a .env.dist o...
