There are many options out there for keeping track of your project updates, release versions and storing your code. Be it through Github, Bitbucket or a number of other services and from time to time you may decide you need to move a repository from one service to another. If you are anything like me you could have two dozen websites installed locally which you need to do work with on a regular basis so won’t want to go through setting up websites again (nightmare).

As we go into a New Year there is one thing on my mind right now, I really need to do something about this website…

If you are working with Git to keep track of project changes you then using tags is key to be able to keep track of your release versions amongst your commits (i.e. version 1.0, 2.0, 2.1 etc).

Now you can use a Git GUI like Gitkraken to manage this easily however I think it is important to also know how to do it through Command Line.

So you have created yourself a new text area attribute using something like the the Gauss Development.com method, and now you want to use a WYSIWIG editor to make updating your attribute easier…

Sometimes you may want to move a file or directory out of your main website structure, this could be for a number of different reasons but a common one would be to prevent files being lost (for example your sites media/uploads directory) in a site upgrade.

This can be accomplished by creating a symbolic link, also known as a symlink, between the location you want your directory to be stored and the spot where it should be.

Command line, its a scary prospect and not something many of us have gone near since our University days, but its a good knowledge set to learn or refresh on when spending time building and maintaining websites…