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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:
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How to set history length for msys?
On my Debian VM I'm setting the $HISTSIZE and $HISTFILESIZE (and other history related environment variables) on system start / profile load:
~/.profile
export HISTSIZE=100000
export ...
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Git for Windows: Run vim in background without ampersand (&)
On my Windows machine, running gVim appears to tie up the git for windows shell, whereas if I run from the command prompt, this is not the case.
How might I be able to run gVim (or any other program, ...
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Github, Puttygen, & Pageant: Permission Denied (publickey)
I'm using msysgit on Windows 7 as well as the PuTTY suite.
I opened Puttygen and clicked the "Generate" button. I moved my cursor around to "generate some randomness". After the key was created, I ...
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Slow msysGit performance on mapped network drive
I have a development web server with an application directory mapped to my local machine as drive Z: (e.g. \\web_server\wwwroot). The shared folder requires domain credentials to access (my domain ...
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MsysGit gets differend look&feel depending on, how it is called
When I start msysgit (C:\msysgit\msysgit\msys.bat) from its directory, it has an other visual settings, as when I start it over a shortcut in the Quick Launch.
Why? How can I change it?
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msysgit's ssh doesn't display colors
I'm using Console 2 to launch msysgit's Bash shell in Windows. When I ssh to a server (either a SLES or RHLE server) and do an ls or use vi I don't get any colors. However, the colors DO work ...
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How to run internal cmd command from the msys shell?
The Windows CMD utility has a number of internal commands, such as mklink. How can they be used from the msys shell ?
From CMD's documentation, the /c switch can be used to execute a command and
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Using git diff with xargs -0, spaces in file names
What I'm attempting to do is extract a list of 'projects' which have changed since a given commit. For this I'm approximating a project to a folder containing a changed file.
The problem I'm having ...
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How do I set the startup dir for a new Tab using msysgit sh.exe in Console2?
My Tab Shell: C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe --login -i
However Startup Dir doesn't seem to work, neither with C:\ nor /c/.
There is a similar question here, but it deals with Explorer extensions. I'm ...
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Accessing a remote Windows “Git Bash” prompt from a Linux machine?
"Git Bash" is a program that comes with Git for Windows. In order to get to a Git Bash prompt on a remote Windows machine from a linux machine, my usual process is to use remmina to open an RDP ...
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Github's Windows application versus Git-1.7.11 (aka MSYSGit)
I was using MSYSGit. Recently installed Github's Windows application. It crashed 1-2 times while "extracting the GIT. Please wait" screen. Then worked. I got some questions
Is there any chance that ...
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Git Bash in Console2 on Windows 8
I've tried launching Git Bash in Console2 as indicated here with no luck.
When I click in Console New Tab > Git, it just freezez for a few seconds and nothing happens.
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msysgit on the command prompt without bash
I've got mysysgit setup with Tortoise with PuTTY and ssh. From the Tortoise side everything is working I can clone, pull, push, etc. If I drop to a command prompt and run git I see the help screen so ...
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Use msysgit/“Git for Windows” to navigate Windows shortcuts?
I use msysgit on Windows to use git, but I often want to navigate through a Windows-style *.lnk shortcut. I typically manage my file structure through Windows' explorer, so using a different type of ...
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Why is a branch not displayed in Msysgit?
I have a branch called "develop" in my repository (as confirmed by git branch -a). However, I do not see it in the history view of Msysgit.
Is there something special about this branch that causes ...
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What is causing git byte order error?
I can no longer git svn rebase (using msysgit on Windows 7).
The error starts with:
Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm
And ends with:
Could not unmemoize function ...
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In msysGit ssh.exe and ssh-keygen.exe crash
I installed msysGit 1.7.7.1 (full installer) on windows 7. When I try to run ssh (or ssh-keygen), I get a (Windows) window error message saying that "ssh.exe has stopped working". When I use other ...
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mount external drive on windows7 for git
I love my GitBash window because it helps maintain the illusion that I am not on Windows 7. I can type ls /c/ and see C:/. This has worked fine for me. Now I would like to create a git backup on an ...
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Make msysgit work with cygwin ssh?
git-upload-pack errors occur when sshing into cygwin. sshd in cygwin does not take paths from .bash_profile as expected in a *nix environment.
What is the way to remedy this and make msysgit work ...
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.bash_profile statements get executed twice
I use MsysGit on windows 7. I have one annoying problem. The entire bash_profile file seems to get executed twice.
for example, I have the following echo line in the .bash_profile
echo "Boinkk..."
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git-tfs and msysgit on Windows 7
I've installed msysgit [msysGit-fullinstall-1.7.4-preview20110204.exe] on Windows 7 64-bit, and extracted git-tfs [GitTfs-0.11.0.zip] into a directory on my machine.
I've setup both the msysgit ...
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sh.exe and ls significantly slower than usual on MSYS bash and GIT
I use MSYS Git and have the MSYS shell installed. I run Windows XP. All of the sudden basic tasks like runnig ls take many many seconds (>7 seconds) in the Git Bash shell or in the MSYS shell.
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Problem using git on Windows 7 with msysgit and .ssh keys
I'm using git on my Ubuntu machine with my existing ssh keys.
Now I have to use Git on Windows 7, and need to use the same keypairs.
I have set up msysgit and created an .ssh folder in ...
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Enable syntax highlighting on msysgit's version of vim?
I was wondering if there was a way to enable syntax highlighting on msysgit's "built in" vim. I'm specifically trying to get ruby highlighting to work, but nothing I have tried has enabled it. I'm ...
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Problem using Git and CVS
I'm trying to use Git at work on Windows using msysgit (though Cygwin), but we are stuck with a central CVS repository. So what I have done is made my CVS working folder a Git repository as well. So ...
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Git Bash Here in Console2?
MSysGit installs a context menu item that opens a Git Bash prompt at the currently selected folder; however, this opens a cmd.exe window and I would like it to open in Console2 instead.
What ...
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Can't Install msysgit/tortoisegit
I ran msysGit-netinstall-1.7.0.2-preview20100407-2.exe.
(http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list)
Then I ran TortoiseGit-1.4.4.0-64bit.msi.
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What is an SSH key?
I signed up for github and notice the ssh key option which looked interesting. I originally expected something like an ssl key (name, co name, etc). After going through it i notice i only put a ...
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Is there a way to run git within Powershell?
Is there a way to run git within Powershell?
I have a Windows 7 box with msysgit. I'd like to have a single shell to also run all my git commands as well as play around with Powershell scripting.
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Why isn't MinGW's find command printing all files on drive C:?
I'm using MinGW (as packaged by msysgit for Windows), and I'm trying to list all the files on my C drive. I would expect
find /c
to do this. However, this is not what I'm seeing (in an MinGW ...
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Git remote add doesn't work
I'm trying to add a remote server from my git bash prompt with something like:
git remote add origin ssh://myserver.pair.com/usr/home/myname/myrepo.git
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the ...
