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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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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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How can I synchronise web projects at home and work?

I am currently developing 10 websites for my job. I use codeIgniter PHP framework for each one. I develop both at home (localhost) and work (localhost) and upload changes to the server. My current ...
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Git vs SVN: Website storage efficinecy [closed]

I know that SVN (Subversion) stores files' deltas in order to efficiently store data. Git however, is a little more complex. What I'm wondering is that if I were to store plain HTML, image and js ...
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OSX: sync Documents folder to Dropbox with version control

I have ample storage in Dropbox to sync my entire OSX Documents folder, and I'd like to this just so that I have it anywhere I go. I found this question, which describes a method for doing this with ...
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How can I get SVN to recognize Mac Bundles as ASCII instead of Binary Streams?

I have a keynote file in which I am regularly editing the text, moving slides around, etc. There are a max of a few kilobytes of data changed in the internal .key XML file. However, SVN recognizes ...
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git svn on multiple machines [closed]

My repo is SVN and I'm using git-svn to interface with it which has been working out well. I'm working on the code base from a few different machines and appreciate some insight as to what the best ...
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VPS Git vs custom git service [closed]

Is there any reason I should pay for a custom git service like unfuddled or bitbucket, something to that extent? I have a vps I'm paying $5 a month for 50 gb of storage space, and it just doesn't seem ...
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Svn analog of git-shell

I have configured git,so I can pull/push via ssh, authorization via public key, but if I try to make direct shell access, I get Last login: Mon Aug 13 20:12:20 2012 from 192.168.1.3 fatal: ...
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How to check if bzr “Tree is up to date” ? (to only build when necessary)

I'm setting up a script to download, build and install a big project (that uses bazaar) and want to trigger the build process only if the "bzr update" does NOT return "Tree is up to date at revision ...
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How do I resolve the git-svn error 'refs/remotes/git-svn$: command returned error: 1'?

In the process of converting a Subversion repository to git, you might encounter the following error while converting svn:ignore settings to .gitignore: config --get svn-remote.svn.fetch ...
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What is the difference between git svn init + fetch and git svn clone?

While trying to use locally Git at my workplace where we use SVN I was searching a lot for how to set everything up. From what I found it seems there are two approaches to the problem, either: git ...
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How do I commit my GIT project to SVN?

I have a project that I have been working on locally with Git but my work uses SVN and I want to add it to their SVN server. How would I do that? I think this is what I want to do but I am not ...
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Merging Database Modifications - CVS

I'm working on a project using git for version handling. What is the best approach to include a mysql database in the cvs? For example, if I checkout the database and install it at home, make some ...
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Add svn-repo as branch to git

I have a git repo, but my boss wants to see the code in an SVN incl. commit-messages. Is there a way to add the SVN to git as a branch (like boss-branch), so that I can work with my own branches, ...
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Is it possible to import history from a svn checkout to a new git repository?

I have a checkout from an svn repository, the host of which I no longer have access to. I would like to import this codebase into a new git repository, but I haven't been able to figure out how to ...
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git-svn pass password on command-line

Is it possible to pass the SVN password on the command-line or in a text file? I would like to run git-svn via a script? I know that the username can be passed on the command-line, but is it ...
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BZR or GIT alongside to SVN?

At my job, we're using SVN as our VCS software. I would like to be able to do local commits and local branching, that would not affect SVN at all. Is it possible to just start a bzr or git repository ...
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Can I recover history for a SVN repo from a local git-svn repo?

Our development team is currently using SVN to manage our web application development. The developer managing the SVN server is trying to migrate it from an older Win XP server to another server, but ...
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Free versioning server

I know services like GitHub and BitBucket, but I need even a little but private space to do versioning (doesn't really matters if it's git, hg or svn). Years ago I subscribed to a service that gave me ...
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Which SCM is less disk intensive? (GIT vs SVN vs others)

I wonder which of the pouplar SCM's (especially I am interested in GIT, SVN) is less disk intensive. The thing is that, I was going to get an SSDisk (SSD) ) and they have limited write cycles. And I ...
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git svn fails with fatal error

While moving our svn repository to git I got the following error message: $ git svn clone svn://abraham/eeschweiz -s Initialized empty Git repository in ...
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How do I add an SVN created descendent branch in git-svn?

I have two branches tracked in a Git repository from SVN. Branch B was created in r6 in SVN by copying r5 of Branch A. When I added Branch B to git-svn it only tracks back to r6. I was expecting it ...
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Is there any equivalence of `--depth immediates` in `git`?

Currently, I'm try to setup git front-end to the Subversion repository. My Subversion repository is a single large repository which consists of several co-related projects: svn-root |-- project1 ...
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svn/git/mercurial mirror

I'm looking for a simple solution to mirror different repository to a single svn server. My problem is the following: I have many dependencies in my projects, some are hosted on Google code, some in ...
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Git SVN rebase to tags only

I'm extending an open source project with additional functionality. So I'll be basing my code on the released version of the source code. The open source project uses SVN and I uses Git. How would I ...
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What is a good choice if I wanted daily automated configuration management?

I am doing some development by myself, so I don't have to worry about builds and such, I just want to hack on some code, and have that days code automatically commited. I only want the files I ...
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git-svn died of signal 10 on Mac OS X

I have git and git-svn installed via Fink. I try to do the following: $ git svn init http://myserver/myrepo Initialized empty Git repository in checkout/.git/ $ git svn fetch error: git-svn died of ...
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Despite the fact that GIT does NOT store file deltas, can you still rollback to previous file versions (unlimited times?)

I've read that Git does not store file deltas. If this is true, how does it support file rollback to previous versions? If it's storing the entire file the repository space on disk must grow to be ...
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Use SVN/GIT for Software Versioning history? Or something else?

I'm currently working on implementing a versioning infrastructure for our in-business applications. You know, V1.1, 1.2 etc for our apps. What I would like to do is have a simple setup of recording ...
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Does anyone use hg/git/svn for version control of PSDs/binary files?

I'm not dealing with 1-50 KB JPEGs, but 150-250+ MB psd files for various websites, and I'd like to keep track of the versions with a VCS. If anyone has real world experience with such a scenario, ...