Suppose you have a few commits in a git repository, and some of them are on the wrong branch. They're listed below from the oldest (a) to newest (g). The letters represent the commit checksums.
a b c d e f gYou want to move the bold commits b, d, and e to a new branch. So start by checking out the commit before the first bad one and creating a branch there.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 5 database is lockedand halting in test that didn't touch the database. The problem was in an unrelated test that ran before it. The test uses iterators to examine database contents, but didn't iterate all the way through the result set. The iterator left the database locked.
brew update completely broke my dev setup. This is how I fixed it.
My homebrew setup was too fucked to save. I started by backing up mysql (hello mysqldump --all-databases) and a few other important files in /usr/local that seemed important.