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Git: Remote Branch Availability on Clone of Clone

So I'm pretty new to Git. I've used it for a while locally but never for it's intended purpose of distributed team collaboration. Background: Recently my company's outside developer started pushing ...
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Fetching the changes from my colleague's git branch

I want get the changes from my collegue's git branch. His changes are in his branch 'teamBranch'. I added his repo and fetched it with below commands. git remote add team 'his repo with URL' ...
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Push from local copy to remote shows up as changes

I set up a repository (git init) on an existing unversioned sourcetree in production (don't tell me). After the initial import commit I cloned the repo on my dev machine and started editing. After ...
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Git add remote for each submodule query

How can I add remote for each git submodule? git submodule foreach "git remote add ci [email protected]:~/ci.git" doesn't work for me.
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Git pull from source repository, push to separate test repository's directory

I have two git repos, one for the plain source code of a library I'm writing, and the other which acts like a test environment. I'll call them respectively prod and dev. Committers pull and push ...
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How to create a new remote branch with EGit?

Let's say I have an Eclipse Project which uses versioning control with EGit and is connected with a remote repository [email protected]:git2013. In my project, under the local branch newstuff, I create ...
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How to keep a second git remote repository for selected commits (states)

I want to keep two separate git remote repositories for a project (while having one local copy). One should be the development repository and one should be the representative public repository. I want ...
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Does git support different remotes for argumentless push/pull in the same branch?

I have a git repository (remote origin) that is a fork of another repository (remote upstream). Now I want my local master branch to track upstream/master but push to origin/master when performing a ...
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What is the differences between local branch, local tracking branch, remote branch and remote tracking branch

I just start using git and I got really confused between different branches. Can anyone help me to figure out what is local branches, local tracking branches, remote branches and remote tracking ...
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Find all tags at same commit as a given tag in a remote git repository

I am trying to find all tags that are at the same commit as a given tag in a remote git repository. If at all possible, I do not want to clone a local copy of the remote. For example, I have a ...
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Why does git remote show two commits for the same tag?

When I check the tags for a remote git repository using git ls-remote --tags origin I see the following: 0a8e26c20 refs/tags/v1.0 acd5c5c8e refs/tags/v1.0^{} I rebased a few commits earlier in ...
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git push to remote repository “Could not read from remote repository”

I searched for a while but I can't find a solution to my Problem. I have a Server I can connect to via ssh with the username git and a local git repository. Now I want to push my local repository to ...
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Using a separate user for multiple Git remotes on the same repository

Is there a way to clone a repository, add a second remote, but use a different/separate user for that second remote automatically when pushing/pulling? My use case is to have the remote "origin" only ...
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Push commit to 2 different remote branches?

I have two remote branches, branch A and branch B. Consider the case where I checkout branch A, made a commit and pushed. Now, I want to push the same commit to branch B. These two branches are ...
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GIT push not pushing commits to remote

I have been working on a git repository and have been pushing my local changes to a remote server all the time... up until recently. When I do a git push, it says that everything is up-to-date. In ...
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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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delete local branch called “remote”

I've done something incredibily stupid. I figured I should ask before I tried to "fix" it and accidentally make things worse. I tried to list all remote branches in my git repo: git branch remote ...
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Is there a reason why you shouldn't mix ssh and smart http access with git?

I have set up a git server using gitolite for a small team. One of us created a repo and pushed the initial commits using smart http - let's say it resides at http://ourhost/project.git I then ...
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git send-pack: protocol error: bad band #50

I am trying to push some files to a server with git push. I have configured the server to push the files: git remote set-url test ssh://[email protected]:2200/fullpath/ but I am getting the ...
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git/EGit loses remote configuration

EGit loses remote configuration. I have such Remotes configuration (2 remotes): But in the morning I get again (origin point to /PaulVI): git remote output: ...
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The remote end hung up unexpectedly while git push with large files

When i try to push to my bitbucket repo, i get the following error. (In fact its the same in github as well). Counting objects: 48, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing ...
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Git: dealing with remote branches from a removed remote

git branch -a shows remotes/team/master and remotes/team/my-branch git remote rm team says "error: Could not remove config section 'remote.team'" (because I edited the config file with a text ...
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Git is not showing all branches on local

I forked a repo from Github. On doing git remote -v it displays: origin https://github.com/myusername/moodle.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/myusername/moodle.git (push) upstream ...
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view the git repository on remote linux server -> in Windows?

Problem: Need to view Git history visually in windows, repository is on remote Linux server (Ubuntu). Question: What are two easy ways to view the git repository on remote linux server -> in Windows? ...
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List all local branches without a remote

Problem: I want a way of deleting all the local branches I have that do not have a remote. It's easy enough to pipe the names of the branches into a git branch -D {branch_name}, but how do I get that ...
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Detailed explanation of 'git remote show'

I honestly cannot find any detailed documentation of the output of git remote show (certainly not on the man page) In particular, a clear, exact explanation of the Local sections would be ...
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Git workflow for merging remote ‘origin/develop’ into ‘origin/master’

With unlimited lifetimes for ‘develop’ and ‘master’, what’s the best workflow for merging and tagging a GitHub remote ‘origin/develop’ branch into the remote ‘origin/master’ without the remote ...
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git remote add -f doesn't add tracking branches

I'm cloning a fork of a project in github and want to set up an upstream remote to track the original project. As I understand things, fetching the upstream remote should create tracking branches of ...
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Get remote HEAD with libgit2?

I can't seem to figure out how to get a git_reference * to a particular remote's HEAD. I've got: git_repository * repo = NULL; git_reference * ref = NULL; /* ...load repository... */ ...
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Synchronize remote repositories

I'm looking to synchronize multiple remotes with bare copies of a git repository, such that if a developer adds or updates a branch on one remote, the changes will make it to the other remotes as ...
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What am I missing when adding a remote github branch?

I am adding a remote repository like this git remote add pythonic https://github.com/sanfx/pythonic.git but I get this error saying fatal: https://github.com/sanfx/pythonic.git/info/refs not ...
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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 ...
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EGit: Pruning Remote Tracking Branches that have been Deleted on the Remote Repo

I'm using EGit (for Eclipse) with a team of devs. We have been creating a lot of feature and fix branches for new work, and then merging them into our release branches when they are completed. Right ...
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Git bare repository has master branch checked out?

I'm quite sure this question has been asked before but I dont seem to find it. So sorry if it is a dublicate. I have a bare repository lets call it project_x.git, if we check the config file it ...
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issues when trying to push a local repo to a github repo

I'm brand new to git and I'm having major issue when trying to push a local repo to github. I set up a remote repo called origin with my github repo SSH address. Then when I try to push I keep getting ...
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git: exclude files from remote

I have a Play Scala app which has two remotes, one for source, and another for deployment. Deployment needs the ./target directory but I want to keep the source remote clean of build files. Is it ...
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Adding a remote repo - Git add remote - Beanstalk

I just added a remote (repo?) using the command: git remote add my_remote_repo [email protected]:/g_my_remote.git I was expecting this Repo to show up in the beanstalk. Or may be I am ...
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Two git repositories with each other as remotes

I'm exploring options for managing my team's data. Currently they exist in two different locations and not under version control. I'm seeking the wisdom of experienced git users as I'm fairly new to ...
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github remotes/origin prefixes [duplicate]

I noticed that, for some reason, some of my git branches are prefixed with "remotes/origin": BZ9 * master remotes/origin/BZ8 remotes/origin/BZ9 remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master ...
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What is the purpose and function of Xcode's source control “Show Remote Status” menu option?

When working in Xcode on a project that's under git source control, I noticed the following menu item: File > Source Control > Show Remote Status and, when toggling it, it changes to: File ...
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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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How do I change a commit message after a 'git-pull' auto-merge?

Occasionally, my collaborators will "panic" when there is an automatic merge generated as the result a git-pull, and just accept the default commit message. Before this commit gets pushed, I want to ...
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Create a remote Git branch as mirror for a specific git-svn branch of a SVN repository

I cloned an existing svn repo off a remote server locally using git-svn's git svn clone <orig_svn_repo_path>. I now want to setup a remote repo for only a particular branch out of several ...
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Files don't change on remote

I have 2 remote server one for production and one for testing So, pushing to production is fine since I push master git push production but after I created a branch , checked it out, made ...
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Add a removed existing remote to a git repository

I accidentally performed a git remote rm <remote_repo_name> :( Will a git remote add remote_repo_name <remote_repo_path> add it back as a remote even though the remote already had ...
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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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How do I move my remote git repo to another remote git repo?

I want to move my remote git repository and all its branches to a new remote repository. old remote = [email protected]:thunderrabbit/thunderrabbit.github.com.git new remote = ...
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Why is old name of git remote sill in .git/refs/remotes?

I recently moved my 'main' remote git repository from code.google to github. Then, I renamed old origin repo to code-google and previously created remote github to origin. So far so good. But... ...
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Git: how to change active branch on remote repository?

I worked on some code on a local branch and then I pushed it to a remote test repository with this command: git push origin fix_vouchers:fix_vouchers I'd like to change the active brank on that ...
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“git pull” error produces “already up-to-date” on subsequent pulls

What do I have to do to get around this "already up-to-date" error: I created a new local repo and tried to pull the remote master branch. It stumbled over my new .gitignore and errored out. I ...

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