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How to designate a local repository as a remote for another local repository?
In order to better understand how Git works, I'd like to inspect the changes that a remote repository undergoes as it interacts with a local repository (via fetch, push, etc.).
Suppose I have two Git ...
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Is there a way to clone a git repository including its remote repositories?
Is there a way to use some git clone / fetch mechanism to keep the repo in my clone up to date including all refs/remotes/ from the remote?
This has nothing to do with git fetch --all, git pull --all ...
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How to delete/change the remote origin master branch
I have a movile project repo in bitbucket and I cloned that repo into a eclipse project the remote branch master/origin point too that repo this is ok, but I created another empty repo in bitbucket ...
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Error on Cloning a Git Repository to client machine
Hi everyone I have pushed my Git bare repository to our cloud server with
scp -r project.git root@serverip:/home/gitrepos
That worked fine. Now I am trying to clone it to another location with
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Repo and its clone disagree about HEAD pointer
I’m trying to rename my master branch to 'liveBranch', create a new branch ('devBranch'), then clone the repo (call it repo A) in another folder on the same computer (call it repo B). But when I do so,...
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Setting up an already cloned git workspace as local repository
I have a clone from a remote repository, and i do my work on this clone and does git commit and git push to remote repo.
I work using a desktop PC and some times using a laptop. From laptop now I do ...
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Connecting to web hosting site via git in such a way that I can push and pull directly via my local pc
I initialized a bare repository on server
git init --bare
and then added a remote
git remote add origin my.hosting.website.com:my-repository.git
then I am trying to pull.I used
pull -...
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git cloning two times and pushing through two levels
I am a newbie in git. I don't know if this is possible. what I am doing is I cloned a remote repository in my desktop. I then again cloned that cloned repo into another folder. Is there anyway to ...
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Can I add additional references in an existing repo?
git clone has the --reference <repository> option which sets up a sort of cache that can be used to store objects so not all need to be copied to the newly created repo. A file .git/objects/...
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Git(Hub): Syncing repo without cloning all files
Given I have a fork of a huge repo, which I want to keep updated with the branch upstream.
Sadly, my internet connection is currently very bad and I can't fetch everything remote, merge and push it ...
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What is 'remotes/remotename/HEAD' in my cloned Git repo?
I'm trying to set up a local Git repository that uses a specific branch from another repository as a starting template (possibly pulling changes to the template, but never — or at least almost never — ...
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Git clone doesn't work remote: Repository not found
I'm trying to clone my private repo from the remote host and it works on every other computer but doesn't work for me for some reason.
I have already tried,
git remote rm origin
and
git remote ...
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git checkout new remote branch when cloning with depth 1 option
After I did a clone of a repo, a new branch test has been added to the origin remote. But I still see:
$ git branch -a
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/master
What ...
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How to get all remotes urls from remote git repo?
For example, let we have a git repository A, which have two remotes:
user@user:~/dev/tmp/some_repo$ git remote -v
remote_a /home/user/dev/tmp/a/ (fetch)
remote_a /home/user/dev/tmp/a/ (...
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Can I Push Remotes So That They Are Included When The Repo Is Cloned?
Can I push remotes so that if someone clones the repo, the remotes are included and therefore already set up for them?
It seems that a standard git push doesn't do this.
The git docs here hint that ...
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Setting-up local git repository
I am a fan of using GitHub as my project file repository. But it interest me more if I am able to create a repository on this computer on a different directory path. Then clone that create repository ...
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Get remote repository Git
I am almost newby in Git and just read Git book from the official site. I try understand difference between next cases.
git init Project
git remote add Project [some-url]
and
git clone [some-url]
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Cannot clone a git repository and have to create a repository locally first and to configure its local remote setting
My ~/.ssh contains two keypairs:
id_rsa_foo&id_rsa_foo.pub
for user foousername on GitHub (github.com)
id_rsa_bar&id_rsa_bar.pub
for user barusername on GitHub (github.com)
for user ...
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How to make git repo remember all remotes?
I have a git repo that is a fork of another repo. As a rule I will normally add a remote called upstream, which is the original repo I forked from.
$ git remote -v
origin [email protected]:skela/...
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Why does cloning a remote Git repo create a remote HEAD, when simply tracking does not?
I have Git configurations for participants in a project that are designed to behave the same for me and for all collaborators. So that, for example, our branch names match and the branches track the ...
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Getting the remotes along when pulling a local repo
Common situation:
deployer$ git clone git://gitserver/project.git
deployer$ cd project
deployer$ ./deploy
Lots of errors!
deployer$ hack --until-it-works deploy
deployer$ git commit -m "fixed it" ...
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clone git repo to a non-empty folder
I have a large C project under git. Someone else has the same C project but he's not using git.
Both of us started from the same baseline, but I simply did a git init / git add . and started using ...
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git remotes of same working directory are different (or at least it seems like it)
I have a working directory that I track with GIT on one of my computers and at some point in the past I created a remote (bare) repo on an external hard drive. This remote is called origin. I then ...
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How I can update changes on remote git repository?
I finished to commit and push changes on remote git repository but when I view remote repository's files, these are outdated. I'm using Git Bash.
View image
The red text are changes made in ...
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Take arbitrary git working copy and make exactly the same as remote branch
Say I have an arbitrary local git working directory that was cloned from some remote. I want to make the local git repository be EXACTLY the same as the remote, irrespective of what's happened to the ...
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How do I get `git clone --recursive` to recreate submodules' remotes and branches?
I have a project with a handful of submodules. Many of them are cloned from a GitHub fork to which I've added a branch for my custom mods. A typical setup is like thus:
In local folder: MyProject1/...
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GIT clone and first GIT push issue
I have two issues. I have Ubuntu 10.10 and I have installed git server with gitolite
tool. Everything worked quite good. The gl-setup command of gitolite created 2 repositories:
gitolite-admin and ...
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git clone does not checkout active branch
I have a remote bare repository with two branches 'master' and 'testing', where HEAD refers to 'testing'.
When cloning this repository git checks out 'master', if 'master' and 'testing' are on the ...
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How to update a git clone --mirror?
I have created a git repository to mirror a live site (which is a non-bare git repository):
git clone --mirror ssh://[email protected]/path/to/repo
Now, to keep this mirror clone updated with all ...
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Difference between git remote add and git clone
What does the clone command do? Is there any equivalent to it in svn?
What is the difference between
git remote add test git://github.com/user/test.git
And
git clone git://github.com/user/test....
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Preserve git remotes
I have fixed network of git remotes and I would like them to be attached to repository. Unfortunately git-clone doesn't clone remotes. Is there a way around it?
