Questions tagged [git-for-windows]
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Windows+IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.1+Git for Windows v2.34.1: Git bash shell in Idea terminal, skip to next/previous word not working ( Ctrl + ← | Ctrl+ → )
I installed git for windows and linked bash shell in IntelliJ but I'm missing one shortcut which saves me a lot of time is a direct move to the next/previous word in the command line. how can I make ...
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How do I use winget to install Git without OpenSSH?
Git for windows supports external OpenSSH. What I am trying to find out is what to put in XXX to make it install without the OpenSSH client
winget install --override XXX Git.Git
The clue should be ...
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Can the Windows %PROGRAMFILES(X86)% environment variable be accessed in Cygwin or Git Bash?
In Git Bash and Cygwin, I can easily access the Windows %PROGRAMFILES% environment variable:
$ echo $PROGRAMFILES
C:\Program Files
$ echo ${PROGRAMFILES}
C:\Program Files
However, due to the ...
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Git permission error with a twist
I just booted my Windows 10 machine for the first time in two or three months and updated a game whose versions I'm keeping in a git repo. There was a patch to the game, so I tried to stage the ...
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search over all drives in git bash crashes - "failed to read file names from file system at or below '/': No such file or directory"
I am using the git-bash for windows (what is internal msys2).
I needed to search over all of my harddrives.
When I try to run find / -type d (and my search patterns), the search runs over the system ...