For some reason a Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition installation I had on one of my machines was experiencing problems: solution files were not loading properly, and what’s worse is that installation instance had gone totally missing from “Uninstall a Program” in Windows Control Panel. Also, every time I tried running the setup file vs_community.exe …
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C++ Function in Header throws Linker “already defined” Errors
If you define a function in the global namespace in a C++ header file and encounter linker errors (complaining about the function already defined elsewhere), there’s a simple fix! Simply mark the function as inline. This will prevent the duplication of the function in other source files. Note that using inclusion guards does not solve …
Undo a Git Commit on GitHub
In case you’ve pushed an unwanted commit to GitHub (or any upstream Git repository), you can simply undo it. To do so, move the HEAD to the commit that you want to undo to and then run the following command: git push -f origin HEAD^:master
Git: Merge Specific Commit from Another Branch to Main Branch
Let’s say that in your git repository, you have a master branch and an experimental branch. You’ve fixed a bug on file A on the experimental branch and you would like to commit that fix to the master branch. This is possible using the git cherry-pick command. First, switch to the experimental branch and execute git log. Take …
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