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Using Coda 2 built-in git

I have went through a lot of tutorials and Q&A on web but I cannot find a solution anywhere. This is what I did: Install Git Go to Coda 2 Preferences -> Files and set the Git Tool Path found is ...
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Managing Multi-Project Branches in Git

As you know, Git recommends using the repository-per-project structuring paradigm. At the same time, any serious project, in our case Maven-based, is attached to several in-house libraries. During any ...
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How do I commit case-sensitive only filename changes in Git?

I have changed a few files name by de-capitalize the first letter, as in Name.jpg -> name.jpg. Git does not recognize this changes and I had to delete the files and upload them again. Is there a way ...
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git bash: error: RPC failed; result = 18, HTP code = 200B | 1KiB/s

When I try to clone on git bash, I receive this error: $git clone <link> Cloning into 'name_project'... Password for '<link>': remote: Counting objects: 100% (659/659), done. error: RPC ...
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How to escape slashes in git filter

I'm trying to delete all lines with comments in a file from a commit with git's filter. Concerned .git/config file looks like this: [filter "printlnignore"] clean = sed '/\/\//d' smudge = cat ...
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Undo git pull from remote branch on a fresh git repository to a state before git pull

In short: Can I reset my code to a state before I do a git pull after pulling code from remote branch on a fresh git repository? Long story: I have two folders containing scripts, one folder ...
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Download private BitBucket repository zip file using http authentication

I'm currently making a script that I'll use to easily deploy my application, and the code for the application is stored on a private BitBucket repository. I'd like to be able to make an http request, ...
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Custom diff for git and binary file

I have a binary file format that I include in a git repository. I know the file format of the binary and could conceivably create a diff like tool for them that would produce a text output so I could ...
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Hiding files from git— possible without adding to .gitignore?

I have a couple of files I've just added to a directory that's part of a git repo. I'd like to hide them from the repo. I could add them to .gitignore but is there another way? These are one-offs ...
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Automatic Xcode Git Commit Prompts

I easily forget to regularly make local git commits, and so i've developed the bad habit of having a few very large commits. I'd really like to make lots of small commits. Largely so the messages are ...
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Bisect to find the commit that _fixed_ a bug

The normal use case for 'git bisect' is to declare the tip of the reference the 'bad' state, and search the history for the lastest 'good' state. This makes sense when searching for a commit that ...
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Public access on my own git server

I create my own git server following the official how-to. SSH access works perfectly while my computer SSH key is on the server. But I'd like to add a public access (to be able to do git clone ...
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git svn does not fetch directory

My svn repo contains (among others) an empty directory called nativeLibrary. From my local git workspace, git svn rebase does not grab it. It also does not come with a fresh git svn clone. ...
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Why is a file still in repository, even though I've deleted it?

Is there a way to tell why is Git holding onto a file, even though I believe it has to let it go? I'm trying to rewrite the commits history by removing large files. Here's what I did: git ...
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gitosis clone submodule .git directory missing

When cloning submodules from a gitosis repo, I got all files except for the .git directory. .git directory is missing. Instead, I got a single .git file. I use git submodule init and git submodule ...
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Is there a git config to auto-resolve merge conflicts when pushing?

Is there a config that tells git to auto-pull-and-merge when pushing? $ git push <takes a few seconds> <grabs a coffee> error: failed to push some refs to ...
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Will merging a Git branch with deletions also delete files in master?

I use Git for my project version controlling. Now I'm working on a minor feature that doesn't depend much on the code base. So in order to develop the feature, I created a new branch based on the ...
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missing unstaged files in egit using eclipe form existing project

I want to make a git repository for my mod i am trying to make. I created a github remote repository and now want to create a local repository to then push to github so that I can share it with some ...
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Storyboard does not open in a specific Laptop

My team has a project and we are updating our codes by pushing/pulling it on bitbucket.org. We encountered a problem lately, we cannot open the storyboard of the pulled updated project code. This is ...
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Discard commits to master that have been pushed upstream

On a new project, with a team new to git, we started out committing directly on master. We accidentally made a few bad commits on master that were pushed to a central repo and pulled down by the whole ...
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Git: remove earlier commit but keep recent changes

I got some commits in my repository: like: A - Added Feature A B - Removed Feature B C - Redesigned Feature C D - Added Feature D E - Added Feature D Where E is the most recent commit I made. Now ...
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Cloning GIT repository by ANT

I am working over GIT cloning with help on ANT.I am using the below code for it : <target name ="deploy"> <sshexec host="ssh://user@rep_location/project_name.git" username="username" ...
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effects of initializing git repository on linux root directory 3:)

I am running beaglebone black on ubuntu installed on sd card. i am learning to program the device in trial and error method by installing various packages (just like CERN guys study sub atomic ...
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best practice: storing django models (db) in repository

I have some django models which are take quite long to create and I would like to know what is the best way of storing them in a repository such as git. One way would be just to serialize them and ...
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When should you use 'git pull origin' and when should you use 'git pull origin master'?

I normally switch to a branch and do git pull origin branchname or if I am on master then I do git pull origin master However, I saw a few places suggesting to always do git pull origin Are ...
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What exactly does git download when you clone and how to reduce the size of it?

I'm looking forward to reducing the download times for people who will be using my repository overseas. I've now received complaints about this being too slow. I've ran a script on the repository to ...
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git repository clone failed. Connection Reset

I am using Bit bucket as my hosting site for the distributed version control systems (DVCS) Git. While Cloning the project and bringing into my eclipse it is giving me the error: Git repository ...
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Tortoise GIT: go back to previous version

I have installed Tortoise GIT. I've commited an initial version of my files. But when I do a change and commit again "right-click -> GIT commit: master", in the log I only see my actual version and ...
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Eclipse git saying Connection Refused

I am trying to clone a git repository in Eclipse stored at a server (connected to my system via LAN). This is what I am filling in the Import Projects From Git dialog: the repository is stored at: ...
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Git Remove remote history

I am using laravel 4 framework and in order to stay up to date I have added a remote called upstream that points to the framework repo and ran git fetch. The problem is that it pulled the whole ...
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folder size mismatch when cloning a git repo

I created very large git repository. Following are the commands I used (creating repo, checking folder size & sharing over network), >git init >git add . >git commit -m "Initial commit" ...
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Download git master repository in php

I would like to download the git master.zip to a directory in php code. I am using cURL to download it and the code I have works, so that aspect is working. I am wondering how to get the correct file ...
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Git log - two dates in different format?

How can I set up date formatting in git log output so that dates appear in different formats? hist = log --all --graph\n--pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %ad -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) ...
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Git: How to create a new branch but somewhat different project

I am going to update my Rails3 project to 4 and at the same time have a clean start project all together. So my solution is to create a new rails4 project and just transfer one by one, what I need in ...
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Git: stylesheet and javascript conflicts

We use git as version control, the way that we use it is as following: Our main branch is production for every new issue or upgrade the developer should create new branch from production branch, ...
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Git, How to reset origin/master to a commit?

I reset my local master to a commit by this command: git reset --hard e3f1e37 when I enter $ git status command, terminal says: # On branch master # Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 7 ...
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Find which branch is used to create current branch in Git?

I'm working on a project which is also worked on by a big team. As time passed by, people have been creating branches and pushing them to a remote repo. How do I know which branch was the root of a ...
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github ssh public key not found with node.js child_process.spawn() on windows, but visible on child_process.exec()

This code works on Windows and on Mac OS X: var exec = require( 'child_process' ).exec exec( 'git clone [email protected]:user/myrepo.git' ) But this code returns an "Access denied(publickey)" error ...
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How can I get the SHA of a GitHub commit in Java?

I'd like to know if there is a hacky method to obtain a commit SHA of the latest commit of a branch in a particular GitHub repo in Java. As far as I have seen, the GitHub API only has a hook to access ...
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Best workflow for software development with many release versions

We are currently changing our workflow with git to avoid the maximum of errors and regressions... I read this one : http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ To make a short summary : ...
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Shelve local changes and get latest with git cmd [duplicate]

New to git I was making rather large changes in the main branch of our project which are still local to my machine. My friend just committed some large changes to our project in the main branch. How ...
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How can I setup a git repo on my box?

I'm trying to setup a remote git repo on my box. It's unexpectedly asking me for an ssh password, because I have public keys setup and can connect via ssh regularly. How can I setup a git repo?
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Restructuring Files in Git Repository

I have a Git repository with the following folder structure: allprojectfiles --otherfolders --source ----projectname ------projectname ---------git initilalized here ---------otherfolders ...
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Messed up git repo: git log vs. git log -g

Background: I have a local repository that has a remote. All has gone well for quite some time. I'm doing development on a Mac and using GitX. Before the problem I'm about to describe, I had ...
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What Git operations lock the database?

Git has a variety of operations for reading/writing to their internal database. I've read that write operations are atomic in Git. However, for other operations like reads, what operations will lock ...
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How to you revert a staged file with changes, preserving the changes to when it was staged?

Say I edited a file echo "hi" > someVersionedFile.txt //Then I staged the file git add . git status <console reads> Changes to be committed new file: someVersionedFile.txt Now I make ...
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Create Merge Request Not Working in Gitlab

I just pushed a new branch "TEST" and Gitlab has the button to create a new merge request. When I click it though, it takes me to a page that asks me to select the source, and what it should be ...
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git push “Authentication Failed”

I have been using github for a little while (translation: new to this...) and I have been fine with git add, git commit, and git push so far with no problems. Suddenly I am having an error that says ...
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How to update local submodules so that they match the central list of submodules?

For a CI build of a project with submodules, I want to make sure that the working tree exactly matches the state that is submitted in the central repository. After fetching and checking out the ...
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Using the git api to list get unmerged as opposed to merged?

using the github api is there a way to get the unmerged files ? I know there is methods for GetAll and GetMerged but as it stands they return large amounts of data and getting the diff ...

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