Git is a distributed source control system.
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How to tell which local branch is tracking which remote branch in Git?
I would like to know if there's a way to tell which local branch is tracking which remote branch in Git.
I'm using one remote server, which is named "origin".
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How to I tell Git for Windows where to find my private RSA key?
My GIT setup runs fine within linux, but when I try to set things up under Windows (using git for windows and tortoisegit) I don't know where to put my private ssh key (or, better still, how to tell ...
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How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?
I have a Git repository on a staging server which multiple developers need to be able to pull to. git-init seems to have a flag very close to what I'm looking for: --shared, except I'd like multiple ...
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How do I edit git's history to correct an incorrect email address/name
When I started using git I just did a git init and started calling add and commit. Now I am starting to pay attention and I can see that my commits are showing up as cowens@localmachine, rather than ...
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GIT as a backup tool (am I a silly person?)
So I was in the shower this morning thinking about stuff, and I had an idea which may be terrible or may be brilliant I'm not sure.
On a server, install git
cd /
git init
git add .
git commit -a -m ...
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How to install git to red hat enterprise linux 5.3 x64?
How can I configure yum to use some repository which has git rpms?
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How do I prevent apache from serving the .git directory?
I have started using git for deployment of websites for testing. How do I prevent apache from serving the .git directory contents?
I tried
<Directorymatch "^/.*/\.git/">
Order deny,allow
Deny ...
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Setting Up Git Repository on Remote Windows Server?
I have a windows server which I can access locally or remotely over the internet through remote desktop connection, etc.
I want to set up a git repository (something similar to "trunk" in ...
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Using LDAP as auth method for git repositories
I want to convince my boss that we should be using git for version control. He says, that it absolutely must authenticate users through our central LDAP server.
I looked at the various solutions ...
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Setting up a git repo on my GoDaddy hosting plan
I have a project which is version-controlled using git.
What I want to be able to do is set up a repo on my (ssh-enabled) GoDaddy shared hosting package so that I can deploy with a push rather than ...
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Git - post-receive hook with git pull “Failed to find a valid git directory”
It's very weird but when setting a git repository and creating a post-receive hook with:
echo "--initializing hook--"
cd ~/websites/testing
echo "--prepare update--"
git pull
echo "--update ...
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git, nagios and hooks, corrupted git repo
Background
We're using nagios to monitor our infrastructure. We don't have the nagios configs under version control at the moment, and there are two of us that manage nagios configuration. As such, ...
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Deploying Files To Multiple Servers
We have a central repository of files in say server-1 at /srv/www. Then we have N number of servers as well. We want server-1 to be able to deploy its files in /srv/www to all servers as quickly and ...
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How do you move your Git repository from one server to another?
I need to move Git to a new location and was wondering if there's a way to just rsync my git repository to a new location?
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Can a very large /etc/hosts.deny slow down SSH connections?
I've been using denyhosts for a while and I noticed my /etc/hosts.deny is getting rather large. Denyhosts adds IPs to /etc/hosts.deny, and my denyhosts is configured to never purge IPs.
$ wc -l ...
