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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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Command line arguments in GIT-BASH when running as administrator
In Unix, I used to do something like:
>du / | sort -rn | less
which does a disk usage by directory starting at the root (or whatever directory you put in), then sorts them in reverse order by ...
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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 mingw32's find command printing all files on c:?
I'm using mingw32 (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 mingw32 ...
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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 ...
