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How to Merge Two Git Repositories with Unrelated Histories

You have two separate Git repositories that you now want to combine into one. Perhaps you acquire...

Fix Windows Explorer Restarting with SFC Scannow

If Windows Explorer keeps restarting on its own—your taskbar disappears and reappears, or File Ex...

Fixing Nginx Upstream Connection Refused in Load Balancing

When Nginx load balancing returns upstream connection refused, it means one or more ...

Fix Git Clone Connection Timed Out via HTTPS

When cloning a repository over HTTPS, you may see 'Connection timed out' after a long wai...

How to Enable Chrome Extensions That Aren't Loading

You open Chrome and see a grayed-out extension icon. Clicking 'Enable' does nothing, or t...

Git Fatal: Refusing to Merge Unrelated Histories – Workaround

You try to merge two Git branches and get this error:

fatal: refusing to merge unre...