git reset --hard origin

Meredith, Bob, and I met this afternoon.  Our assignment from Alex:

  1. Put an issue on github
  2. create an item in our individual omeka installations. Then back up the database.
  3. create a branch called playground and break the site

I ran into some problems early on.  My commits were out of synch with github and nothing seemed to work: I couldn’t pull or push,  but wasn’t getting any prompt, just a long message about the importance of messages.  Meredith found this incredibly helpful command: git reset –hard origin, which seemed to solve the problem, and was the most important thing I learned today.

We also created an item in our individual Omeka installation, created a branch, and changed the color and font in the style.css file, and created and resolve issues. I’m not sure if I successfully backed up the database.  I’m sure I broke something.

Sarah Witte

Author: Sarah Witte

As the Research and Collections Librarian for Gender & Women’s Studies I hope to build technical literacy in support of research in social history, especially involving census, GIS, textual data and primary resources. I am also interested in database design and architecture and the assessment of user interfaces.