Using diskpart command to clean a SD Card/USB Drive

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powershell-core/pwsh

to install powershell either download the zip/msi from github page or you can install thru chocolatey. But I preferred going with msi file for now.

The claim is that you can run powershell core side-by-side, which is not a requirement for me- but wanted to move over to it for some time now.

Anyway, I installed this in C:\PowerShell\6.0.1 directory & added it to Path environment variable on the machine- so is accessible to all uesrs.

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By default git usually launches vimdiff for diffs and merges, but I would rather prefer kdiff3 gui for merges/diffs. Here are some of my notes about how to set it up.

For a detailed list of options that git diff supports visit this link

git supports various tools for merge and diff, here is a partial list: - kdiff3 & documentation - tkdiff - meld - vimdiff - gvimdiff

You can setup kdiff3 by default as diff tool by executing follow command:

git config --global diff.tool kdiff3

for other tools see here: Viewing all git diffs with vimdiff

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Some of the links about error handling, collected over years

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With git it is easy to overwrite someone as author or commit as someone else. Then how do you know it was someone who committed the changes? That’s where the gpg signing comes into picture.

this is my first gpg signed post

One thing to note is that once you have generated gpg keys from git bash then you can’t use them from windows command prompt. I found it rather handy to install gnugpg and then generating keys with gpg. One thing i had to setup explicitly is to tell git where to find gpg so it asks me passcode . Anyway the command is:

git config --global gpg.program "C:\GnuPG\bin\gpg.exe"

A few links of interest around this topic:

1. Why-does-GitHub-let-me-commit-as-other-people
2. GPG-signing-for-git-commit
3. A git horror story: Repository Integrity With Signed Commits

Anyway the most interesting is this:

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