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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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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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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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Can you sync Notepad++ and GIT?
I'm still fairly new to Git. Although I have technically used it for almost a year, most of it was with someone else standing there telling what to type. I used Titanium before to upload and download ...
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Is there a way to make TextMate remember its state when switching branches?
I'm looking for a plugin or bundle which enables TextMate to bind it's state to the current branch. By state I mean open tabs and open folders in the project drawer.
Here is my scenario:
working on ...
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Setting up ssh in git
I am trying to setup git ssh client on my windows PC. I was logged in to the PC as a domain user and I installed git and set up the ssh client through the domain user account which I was logged in. My ...
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How to version control for a solo author creating non-programming documents?
I'm a writer, not a programmer. I'm just now for the first time learning about version control and how it works, and I am wondering how version control could streamline my workflow.
For years, I've ...
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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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Git repository on external disk?
I am setting up git server on linux Debian and I want for all of my repositories to be saved on external disk (usb disk drive). How can I acomplished that?
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How can I reliably synch local source files with a remote?
I'm developing locally on a mac running MAMP and BBEdit. I'm currently using Transmit to synch files by (S)FTP. I like the software and it has a "synch" feature to compare local files to remote either ...
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Cygwin - Repo with Separate Git/Working Dir Doesn't Work
Since I've switched to OS X and Vim, I've found it easiest to manage all of my 'dotfiles' (all of my configuration files and miscellaneous scripts) with Git. Having already set up my dotfiles in a ...
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using git for media libraries
Rationale:
I want to manage libraries of media files (music, images) using git, there is git-annex but it requires haskel platform - but they do not play together well (also it's quite to big ...
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Git doesn't observe new exceptions in .gitignore
[NOTE: This is not the usual "Git still tracks files I just added to .gitignore!" problem. This is the opposite of that.]
I have a website's full directory structure in a Git repository. The CMS I ...
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How do you use a VCS (preferably git) to synchronize local directories?
I'd like to have a simple, script-like backup solution to synchronize 2 local directories which provides a "fail-safe"-mechanism allowing to undo 1 commited unwanted modification of a file that got ...
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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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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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Version Control for Eclipse that's like Xcode 4's version control?
I really enjoy Xcode 4's version control with git. It's all very simple and intuitive and enables me to be extremely productive. If I modify a file, a little 'M' pops up next to the file and all I ...
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git init --bare permission denied on 16gb USB stick
I am using GIT on a Windows 7 machine (64 bit) and have been learning how to use GIT to version control my files.
Now I want to be able to create a --bare repository on an external device (in this ...
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Saving Git remotes inside the Git repository itself?
I have a few projects under version control using Git.
Since it is a distributed version control system, it is very easy to have it hosted at multiple places (GitHub, Bitbucket, Google Code, etc.) ...
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.gitignoring pdf file only when a tex source is present
I'd like to set up a global .gitignore file in my home suitable for working with TeX files. So typical TeX junk files such as *.log, *.aux, *.synctex.gz would go in it.
The next step, however, is ...
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Git keeps forgetting the current directory
I've got a git repository, call it myscripts/. Within myscripts/ are subdirectories perl/, python/, and ruby/. For some reason, when I edit code in one of the subdirectories, Git forgets that the ...
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How can I selectively disable zsh's version control integration when my CWD is on a remote filesystem?
I'm running zsh on OSX and on occasion I have to work on a mounted sshfs volume. However, git is REALLY slow over sshfs mounts. My prompt makes use of the vc mode stuff that zsh provides built in, but ...
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How to keep a clone of GIT updated?
I have created a GIT clone on my backup NAS:
git clone --bare //NAS/GIT/TexRepo //backupnas/backup/GIT/TexRepo.git
Now, continuing to work on the regular repository, what is the best way, practice ...
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How to use Git Extensions with BitBucket/Mercurial repository?
I a have repository on both github.com and bitbucket.org, and I am very familiar with using Git Extensions for all repository functions on GitHub. When I started using bitbucket.org repo's I have to ...
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Is there a way to use GitHub for Mac for GitHub remote and CLI for other remote?
The GitHub for Mac app says it'll only work with the Git origin remote. This means that it'll only work with one remote.
My current remote is used to push to Heroku. Is there a way to set my origin ...
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Do dVCS/git systems also manage incremental file changes
... or do they only manage full "commits"? (by full commits, I mean to say only the working/final files for a given snapshot.)
I am needing to learn some kind of VCS as I venture into application ...
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Git pull/fetch doesn't seem to work
I am using git over hamachi vpn and am able to clone the remote repository.
However, git pull/fetch fails after hanging for a long time.
The error message displayed is:
Write failed: Broken pipe ...
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Merge master functionality into shared branches in Git
Suppose that I have several shared branches on my Git repository, for example: newfeature, experiment and gtkgui, and I share those branches in the origin repository. My team and I make some changes ...
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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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Stop Git from Opening a new Terminal.app Window on Commit
Git is automatically opening a Terminal window when I save commit messages on my Mac. This might normally be useful (e.g. if the commit was initiated from a Terminal window), but I use iTerm as my ...
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Explaining Git to someone new to revision control
I've recently decided to jump into the whole world of revision control to work on some open source projects I have. I looked around (subversion, mercurial, git, etc) and found that Git seemed to make ...
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Adding “manually versioned” project to git repository
Back before I had heard of the wonders of version control, I kept projects in folders like "project x 1.0", "project x 1.1", "project x 1.2", etc. There's tons of redundancy in this approach, so I'd ...
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How to version large binary files?
I run Windows XP inside a virtual machine for some tasks. I attempted to use git to version the image for virtual box; however, it is about 6GB after all the service packs. I only have 6GB of ram ...
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Is it safe to delete a branch from a github fork once it's been merged upstream?
I've only recently tried my hand at forking in github and would like some "best practice" advice.
I created a branch in my fork, and that branch got pulled into master of the upstream project. It no ...
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How to keep my OSX settings under version-control?
Coming from Linux, I've gotten in the habit of keeping my config files under a git repository.
Since I got a macbook however, I've made a lot of tweaks through defaults write and preferences panels, ...
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GIT merge master into a branch
I have been developing a new feature on a new branch, on the side I have commited quite a few changes on my master branch.
I would like to know if it's possible to merge the master branch in my new ...
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How do i create a remote repo to push?
I notice i can have multiple remote repos. This is great. I'd like to have one on the local network. The network and that server is usually good but sometimes it goes down we'll have a backup server ...
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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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Add projects to gitbub with netbeans
Does anyone now how to add my projects from within netbeans (version 6.9.1.) To github?
I can't find any information.
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How do I set up CVS for group use?
I am completely new to CVS as well as linux terminal so please bear with me.
I need to setup cvs so my group members (on other machines) can access the repository and do all the good CVS stuff. How ...
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Git equivalent to hg update
I've used Mercurial for some time now, and am used to its workflow. Suddenly, I need to work with a Git repository, and I cannot make the install work from the head revision. In Mercurial I would ...
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Is there a proper way to 'sync' branches and keep them separate?
So I created a new branch from master and eventually merge the changes back, only some changes seemed to merge and it would seem I merged in one direction. Eventually I just decided to be sure master ...
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Public/private git clone url?
Ok, I know how to use git for the most part, but I've just recently been playing with some github stuff and noticed the public/private url. May I ask what that is about?
I know may not be advanced ...
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Git on Windows - tutorial?
Does anyone know of a decent tutorial on how to set up Git on Windows?
Which client do you prefer to use? Any that integrates with Visual Studio?
How to use Git on windows? I am used to svn and ...
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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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Git (Windows): Newbie: Can't commit new repository … “did not match any files(s) known to git”
I just installed Git on Windows XP Pro and I'm trying to apply it to my project.
I'm trying git-ize a legacy directory structure:
C:\src>git init
C:\src>git add *.c
C:\src>git commit -m ...
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Gitorious error message: Agent admitted failure to sign using the key
Trying out gitorious I hit a road-block in the form of this error message:
Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
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Cannot find path to opendiff error
N00b here, needing to know how to find out if I have opendiff installed. If I don't, how do I install it?
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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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checking out a portion of a git repository
How can I check out just a portion of a Git repository? I have a repository that has several modules, and I only want one of the modules installed on a particular site.
In Subversion, I'd do svn ...
