If you need to create a new git branch for your project, one that is completely fresh and with no previous history or commits, that can be done using the “orphan” flag of the switch command if you are using git 2.23+. Fresh branch using ‘git switch’ # create fresh branch git switch –orphan my-fresh-branch … Git: create a new empty branch with no history or commits
If your intent is to delete all the objects in a namespace, but the command is not completing, emptying the namespace finalizer will often allow the deletion to finish. For example, if you have tried deleting the “my-namespace” like below and it will not complete. kubectl delete ns my-namespace –force –grace-period=0 Then as written by … Kubernetes: emptying the finalizers for a namespace that will not delete
If you have captured the multi-line output of a previous Bash command in a variable and later need to count the number of lines stored in that variable, you may reach for an apparently easy solution first. But there are corner cases you may not have covered. The first syntax gotcha is to make sure … Bash: count number of lines in previously captured stdout
It is typically straightforward to resolve Ansible errors where a simple variable used within an action is not defined. However, when dealing with nested dictionary variables in your Ansible tasks, it can become more complex because not only can the leaf be missing, but also any of the parent container paths. For example, the nested … Ansible: pulling values from nested dictionaries when path might not exist