Find a Remote Branch and Fetch it to Local with Git

git branch -r can list all the remote branch. In any large scale application code base, you are likely to get heaps of branch names. By piping grep, we can narrow down the remote branch

git branch -r | grep MDH-112

This gives us a fewer options.

  origin/MDH-112-dev-branch
  origin/MDH-112-experiment
  origin/MDH-112-delete

Then, fetch the branch from the remote

git fetch origin MDH-112-dev-branch
Git
How to specify which Node version to use in Github Actions

When you want to specify which Node version to use in your Github Actions, you can use actions/setup-node@v2. The alternative way is to use a node container. When you try to use a publicly available node container like runs-on: node:alpine-xx, the pipeline gets stuck in a queue. runs-on is not …

AWS
Using semantic-release with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild

Here is the usual pattern of getting the source from a git repository in AWS CodePipeline. In the pipeline, we use AWS CodeStart to connect to a repo and get the source. Then, we pass it to the other stages, like deploy or publish. For some unknown reasons, CodePipeline downloads …

DBA
mysqldump Error: Unknown table ‘COLUMN_STATISTICS’ in information_schema (1109)

mysqldump 8 enabled a new flag called columm-statistics by default. When you have MySQL client above 8 and try to run mysqldump on older MySQL versions, you will get the error below. mysqldump: Couldn’t execute ‘SELECT COLUMN_NAME, JSON_EXTRACT(HISTOGRAM ‘$”number-of-buckets-specified”‘) FROM information_schema.COLUMN_STATISTICS WHERE SCHEMA_NAME = ‘myschema’ AND TABLE_NAME = ‘craue_config_setting’;’: Unknown …