Git is an open source distributed version control system originally designed and written by Linus Torvalds. It is generally used to keep track of source code for software projects. As a DVCS, Git provides powerful help with branching, merging, and distributed development.
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Use Ruby with no-root user in Gentoo
I am just started to update my Gitlab on Gentoo server (4.2 > 5.0). For new version Gitlab need to use Ruby with user 'git'.
# check ruby version for git user ( 1.9 required!! )
# gitlab shell ...
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GitHub - completely messed up the local files of gitHub in my computer
I created a repo in the wrong folder. Meaning the User folder in OS where all the user folders are from pics, videos to documents. So I pushed that all to gitHub without knowing and now I can't create ...
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Git / Terminal: How to remove file from inside folder?
I have a .svn folder from another project which committed by accident when I committed the whole project folder.
How would you remove the .svn folder from a path like projects/projectname/js/.svn ?
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How Does SparkleShare Work With Git?
I haven't been able to find an answer to this anywhere on the internet so I wanted to bring my question here, to see if anyone has an answer!
I'm new to the Git scene and I'm curious how SparkleShare ...
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svn2git with local repo?
Let's say some time ago I checked out a SVN repo:
svn co http://example.com/repo
Now I have the folder $HOME/repo which contains .svn subfolders about the metadata of the repo in the whatever host.
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Highlight Author in git log
How might one configure Git to highlight the Author for each commit in git log? Ideally, only the Author's name would be highlighted (red font), but if the only option is to highlight the entire line ...
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How to exit VIM and get back to 'normal' terminal?
I did find this answer here:
Vim Stuck In Insert Mode
However none of the commands listed worked for me. Exit, cntrl + [, cntrl + q
I'm a totally terminal newb, trying to learn how to setup git ...
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Is there a way to filter out filenames from vim's “oldfiles”, perhaps using a pattern?
I use vim's :browse oldfiles a lot to edit files I've recently worked with. However, there are some files, such as git's auto-generated COMMIT_EDITMSG, which clutter that list and which I never need ...
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SSH remote command no reading all environment variables
I have declared some "PATH" variables in the ".bashrc" file of a remote machine. When I login to the remote machine, all these "PATH" variables work fine. But when I do a "ssh user@remote env", the ...
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Software Which Enables Checking Folders In And Out [closed]
It will be easier if I explain what I would use it for than explaining what it does.
I am part of a student television and we have several editing pcs. At the moment the structure we have with all ...
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Cloning own repo requires passphrase
Why does cloning (via ssh) my own repository from github require my passphrase?
So as a consequence: Would it be a huge safety-issue if I generate some ssh keys without a passphrase (for working on ...
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Git color ui uses green for both deletions and insertions
When enabling git color ui, the only color used is green. So in git diff I get green for both deletions and insertions. The same goes for git status where untracked files and unstaged files show as ...
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How do I add as editor Dreamweaver to work in GIT?
How do I add Dreamweaver as the editor in Git?
git config --global core.editor???
$ slime README.md
sh.exe": slime: command not found
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osx SSH + Git to a remote server with user/pw
A bit of a disclaimer; I'm new to both GIT and SSH as well as OSX so sorry for being a bit bad at explaining the problem.
So, I'm trying to reach a GIT repository on my work's server. The structure ...
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how to integrate GitLab with SmartGit?
I have been using SmartGit locally for sometime now.
Now I want to integrate GitLab with SmartGit as GitLab is an opensource and provides free usage even for greater number of Developers.
I Tried to ...
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Windows Github install error: System.Net.WebException
While installing, I got this error (from the log file). I tried the solutions to this similar question
ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [5/7/2013 8:19:29 PM] ...
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Change gc.auto Parameter
I would to change gc.auto parameter to something "much larger than 6700" as recommended here so git gc --auto does not run every time I do a pull (which it is doing now for some reason) how do I do ...
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Automated git pull on Windows 8 as system
I have installed msysgit for windows 8. I am attempting to automate a git pull every 5 minutes. I am using scheduled tasks to run a script I wrote. The schedule task's action is:
powershell ...
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Not able to close Heroku app on Windows
I have heroku installed on my ubuntu 12.10. it works perfectly. I have a dual boot windows 8. I installed the heroku tool belt and when i try to clone my app to my local system, it is throwing an ...
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Git messed up my website folder
I am in australia and this is my university's website server. I wanted to add the files to git. So I created a repo in github and then on my server did a git clone of the repo, add *, committed and ...
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Undoing a git reset of multiple commits
I accidentally ran git reset HEAD~12 when I meant to run get reset HEAD~1. How can I recover the commits I just reset?
About eight of the commits were pushed to a remote before the reset. The others ...
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Ubuntu confused ssh keys connecting to github
I recently installed Ubuntu 13.04, and i add my ssh key to my github account, like always i did. I didn't had any problem to access to my own reports, i could clone my reports, etc... But today, maybe ...
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Publish code in git repository assembla as new branch
I have an iphone project which I need to publish in assembla git repository as a new branch.My Lead has given me the access to the account. I am using mac os x . Please help me out.
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git status -s showing D for few files in the second column
I have a local git repository running on my windows machine. The remote origin is in github.
After executing a git pull when I run git status -s command, it is displaying some files with D mark. But I ...
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How to use code repo so that same user from multiple PCs can access it in Netbeans IDE
I am planning to work on a software project using Netbeans-- now I want to work across multiple PCs - how can I set up Netbeans and the Git/Mercurial repo so that I can for eg-- make code changes in ...
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How do I install git 1.8.3 on mac OSX?
I want to use the new git submodule deinit command added with 1.8.3.
Can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to install and use the development version of git on mac OSX 10.7.5? The ...
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Any way to wipe out everything I have installed via Command Line?
So I have borked my system.
Running OS X 10.8.3, I have installed a mess of stuff; Ruby, RVM, Git, Node, Brew etc... As well as playing with dotfiles (http://dotfiles.github.io/) Which I really ...
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ssh key regeneration for github
I was playing about with ssh keys, and stupidly deleted the github keys in my .ssh folder.
Now i get
Error: Permission denied (public key)
When i try and connect to a remote repo.
I have ...
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Cannot initialize a “share” Git repository in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
In my Ubuntu terminal, I create an empty Git repository in an empty folder, say called "Docs", on a removable hard disk. But the system response me an error message to my command
$ git --bared init ...
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git - Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
I am not able to install git on Ubuntu 12.10.
I have tried adding the git package repository manually to software sources still I am getting the following error while installing git-core on Ubuntu ...
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git fatal: pack has 1 unresolved delta (index-pack failed)
I have a VERY strange and not so covered issue with a specific Windows Build Server (Jenkins Slave).
In Jenkins I have a Job that pulls the latest code from a specific branch.
The actual command the ...
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Github local cached ip address is different then expected remote ip address
I cannot do a "Git pull" request without getting an error for public key (see below).
git pull
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Running the ...
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Compiling Evolution 3.9 e-mail client [closed]
There isn't an active port of the Evolution e-mail client for OS X.
I'd like to fix that. My question though is how do I get a list of everything Evolution needs to compile.
There is this: ...
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Does git commit --amend overwrite the old commit completly?
To a local repository I accidentally committed a file whit a password in it that should not go out to the public (it was there for a lazy testing purpose...).
I saved the file again whit out the ...
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What's normal practice with git and websites? The repository in the web root?
I've been used to subversion, so this isn't obvious to me.
Say I have a website at www.example.com, not currently under source control, which I want to control with git.
I want to make changes at ...
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EGit (Eclipse) wrongly interpreting file names with non-ASCII characters?
I recently switched to using a Git repository within Eclipse (Juno SR2), using EGit. In our project, some file names contains umlauts and other special non-ASCII-characters. On the command line, git ...
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git difftool doesn't launch Beyond Compare from Powershell or command prompt
I'm trying to use Beyond Compare 3 as my diff tool with git. I configured git with the following commands: (source: Using Beyond Compare With Version Control Systems)
git config --global diff.tool ...
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can't add folder in git
I add new folder (actually I cloned it from another repo, and forgot that), then I did some changes there. Additionally I did a lot of changes in another places, when I tried to do git add
# Changes ...
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Git config inconsistent with Sublime Text 2
I am having problems similar to this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15001319/sublime-text-2-git-plugin
I am in Windows running mysysgit and sublime text 2. I have already configured the ...
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git emacsclient issues
I set my editor variable like so:
git config --global core.editor "`which emacsclient` -t -s"
and get this output whenever I want to edit the message during a commit
emacsclient: aliased to ...
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Moving a folder of version-in-name files into a proper git history
I have a folder containing many files of the form svs_a.png, svs_b.png, svs_xyz.png, svs_something.png, ... svs_final.png. These are all different versions of the same file named according to the bad ...
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Customizing Powershell to be like Github for Windows shell
I use Github for Windows and usually I use the "Open a Shell" here command which launches powershell with some custom settings. It makes powershell display extra information when I'm inside a Git repo ...
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SSH: “no such identity”
I'm having a very peculiar problem getting SSH to work on my Linux box. I have a passwordless git user identified by an OpenSSH key. If I attempt to ssh into it from either the same or a different ...
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GIT rm is deleting top level directory
below is directory structure:
Top_dir
--test_file
Now when I do git rm test_file, since Top_dir does not have any other files git is deleting Top_dir aswell. Is it normal behaviour of git?
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Does creating a new branch in git create a new folder
I need multiple folders with the entire site sitting in it.
DEV/Local
LIVE
So I already have my Dev/Hub branch and when I push into my Hub branch it auto pushes to live. This is dangeous as now any ...
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Redmine shows 404 when tring to browse git repository
I have set up a git server running redmine.
In redmine I set the path to repository as /home/git/parafixit.git
My git repository looks like this
$ pwd && ls -l
/home/git/parafixit.git
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Network Hangs during a Git checkout
I have a local git configured in my server. People who are working, clones the git to their machine. Initially things were fine, Now when the size of data has increased, the Checkout causes the entire ...
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Gitorious can not connect to Active Directory (authentication.yml)
I have set up Gitorious. With the local database, everything worked fine.
All my log and configurationfiles are included.
The problem is when I want to visit gitorious.localdomain when I have ...
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How can I enable colored output for OSX diff?
In OSX (10.7.5) terminal, I need to diff two files (not two versions of the same file, they are however tracked by git, but that is unrelated info) and I would like some colored output, how can I ...
