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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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How to reuse/extend etckeeper's metadata engine for git control of non-/etc filesystems, or extend git natively with said capability?

Overview + question Want etckeeper-like filesystem metadata control for non-/etc, git-controlled directories. Home and web-app directories, among others, are classically sensitive to metadata (file ...
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Why every time I run gitk from a Mac OS X Terminal it opens in background?

Every time I run gitk from a Mac OS X Terminal it opens in background. In other words, gitk is always shown behind the Terminal window. Actually, gitk is the only tool manifesting this strange ...
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How do I disown/detach a process from the Git Bash terminal that come with Git's Windows installer?

I would like to run commands from the terminal (mostly Python servers) and essentially daemonize them. I am running the MinGW terminal "Git Bash" that comes with the Windows installer for Git. ...
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Moving two existing already-synced directory trees to git annex

I have two copies of my music files, one on a desktop Linux machine, one on a Macbook. At the moment, I run rsync periodically to keep these files in sync. I'd like to move management of this problem ...
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Git username vs windows username capital

I have a git repository set up on a linux server. I have a user with a username of cmcgrath on the git server. On our windows domain we have the same user cmcgrath. However, when he opens gitbash it ...
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TortoiseGit stops connecting after a seemingly random amount of time

I use TortoiseGit to connect to a private remote git server, but after an indeterminate amount of time (possibly longer than 6 hours?), trying to connect results in a bad file number error. I've tried ...
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How to remotely clone Git repository on Windows Storage Server 2008?

I have a Western Digital Sentinel at home running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. I have several Git repositories on it for my own personal projects, and have no problems pushing and ...
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git over webdav http-push-failed error

I'm trying to set up git via WebDAV, the idea is to host it on my NAS where I cannot install any software, so I can't really use smarter transports. Now clone works, but push does not: I get ...
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Git, Powershell, %HOME% and multiple repos

I'm going to start off by saying that I'm not particularly good with either git or Windows. However, I've been successfully using msysgit on Windows 7 for a while now, keeping track of a number of ...
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Trouble implementing ssh-agent forwarding across ssh and then su

I've got a web server with a dedicated unprivileged user who runs the apache instance on the box. The php code for the app the web server runs is in a private github repo that I occasionally need to ...
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Problems with git and bundler

I'm trying to set up Gitorious on my Server with this tutorial and having problems over problems with gem/git. After fixing a lot of libs and dependancies, bundler now won't work with git ...
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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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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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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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Setup Git-User in Aptana

I'm using Aptana Studio 3 Standalone as IDE. As GIT client, I used eGit for quite a while, but I didn't like the menus and options there too much. So, I wanted to give the build-in git client a ...
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cygwin git default web browser

I just installed git using cygwin. I then tried using git help status but I received the error fatal: '/usr/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory. And indeed, there is no folder git-doc in ...
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Error from egit installation

Just installed a fresh 32 bit copy of java and eclipse. and am now trying to add egit for the first time. Following the instructions here (using the main repositiry) I receive this error when I try ...
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Updating GITLAB from 3.1 to 4.0 rake error

I am trying to update my GITLAB. I have been following this link (https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/From-3.1-to-4.0) and I got stuck on this command: sudo -u gitlab -H bundle exec rake ...
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Permission errors in setting up Git

Background I have a Linode VPS (Ubuntu 12.04 server), and I want to use Git to manage my files from the VPS to my local Windows desktop. I have installed Git Bash and have been using that on the ...
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How do you correct the path separators in git when using powershell

I'm using the github powershell addon to run git on windows. Everything seems to work fine except for when I'm adding submodules. In this case, the powershell addon is adding in paths with \\ as ...
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hash-based asyncronous directory comparison

I am trying to efficiently synchronize two large directories via VPN over a long distance. Unfortunately I cannot install advanced tools like git or rsync on the remote server due to company ...
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TortoiseGIT and sftp

I have a server which I can't modify/install anything on that. the only way that server gives me is to use sftp protocol to connect to the server and modify the files. I have access to the server ...
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If a git pull keeps getting aborted partway through, will it eventually succeed?

I just started using SparkleShare to sync my documents between computers. SparkleShare uses Git for almost everything. My initial few commits are large: several gigabytes each. They got pushed to ...
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Git merge. Behavior different on explicit merge than on pull

I have a problem with my git configuration. I like to use the --no-ff option when I merge two branch. So I put on my configuration file ~/.gitconfig under the section [merge] the option ff = no. Which ...
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git insists in telling me “Already up-to-date.”, What should I do?

I am new to git, and I am working on a project with a friend, and somewhere something went wrong, and I cannot fix it. The state now is that I have a working copy on my computer, but when I run git ...
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How to restore version control in XCode?

I have just recently backed-up my XCode C++ project on my pendrive, using rsync -avu Since then, the version control for my project is lost (grayed-out) on every files, I can modify the files and ...
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Mac OSX 10.8 git commands don't work after trying to use git-credential-osxkeychain

Following setup instructions in https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git to prevent credential entry for each git command, git stopped responding. Every git command "locks up" the terminal until I ...
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GitHub for Windows can not sync

I have my git repos hosted on a server using gitolite. I can access them using ssh, e.g. git clone git@example.net. This works from osx/linux. On a Win8 Box I now have installed GitHub for Windows ...
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Building git page with jeklly

I'm using jeklly builiding git page. I can view my pages locally (http://localhost:4000/). I have received letter from git. However, I CANNOT open my home page on the internet. ...
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SSH from ubuntu server to Windows 2008 repeatedly asks for password

I am trying to setup GIT using SSH mode. The central GIT repository is on a NAS device running Windows 2008 server and the user GIT repository is on ubuntu 12.04. When I try to SSH to the windows ...
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Intellij setup git macro

I would like to know if its possible to setup a macro for git. I want to be able to shortcut a git workflow : for instance : git checkout b git pull git merge a git push git checkout a
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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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Git differences between OSX and Linux

This has been driving me somewhat insane but I can't find any information on it. I have both Mac and a Linux (Ubuntu) machines. I work on both but I'm finding Git is behaving very differently during ...
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Why does git difftool not work with vimdiff?

I just set up git and set git mergetool to vimdiff and it works as expected. If I set git config --global diff.tool vimdiff it behaves strangely: git diff x y will open less and display the changes ...
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Is there anyway to color `git push` output?

I've tried using: stderred, https://github.com/sickill/stderred colors in git, http://scie.nti.st/2007/5/2/colors-in-git global config color.ui=true. Though the output from git push on error is ...
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slow git performance

I have an older machine with a git repository on it that I use to keep synchronized with svn. I've noticed that with running basic commands like git status, it is ridiculously slow. I was initially ...
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Java opens a new window when I start it from mingw/msysgit, how can I stop it?

When I launch anything that uses Java, i.e., command lines beginning with java, javac, jar, mvn, etc., from cmd, I see the output in the same window. When I launch them from msysgit's bash shell on ...
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Git for windows xp crashes all the time

I am trying to clone a git repo on windwos xp. I am using GIT BASH. But everytime i try to clone it i get the error as below. I tried to restart my pc but this didn't help. Any suggestions?
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Incessant prompting for id_rsa passphrase

Running on Mac OS X and I switched to zsh a couple months ago & started using git quite heavily. At each initial login now I'm getting a prompt for my .ssh/id_rsa passphrase: starting... Enter ...
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How to setup Xcode's SCM for static and dynamic site content?

I want to use Xcode 4's SCM (GIT) to manage your static and dynamic site content, which I edit and maintain with a variety of tools (CSSEdit, Dreamweaver and Espresso). I have tried creating ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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