Git is an open-source DVCS (Distributed Version Control System)
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Organisation GitHub account. Secure to use for personal projects?
So a large client of mine gave me access to their Organisation GitHub account.
With it came a login for myself (on github.companyname.com) and of course access to certain repos on their company ...
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Are forks are treated differently by GitHub? [on hold]
I found that GitHub does not allow you to use the "search" feature on forks (issues are still searchable, just not code). [screenshot]
Are there any other cases where forks are treated as "inferior" ...
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Why “Fork me on github”?
I understand how Github works, but one thing I've been confused about is, why almost every OSS project lately has a "Fork me on Github" link on their homepage. For example,
http://jqtjs.com/, ...
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How to maintain a forked git repo with feature branches that upstream won't pull?
So here's a typical workflow on Github...
Like some project -> fork it -> git clone https://github.com/you/someproject.
Open project. Like what you see, but make some changes.
Having been ...
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How large is the Linux Kernel repository and how old is its first commit [closed]
When you download the latest stable release of the kernel you use the command
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
which indicates the latest stable kernel ...
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Strategy for code review before merge to master from feature branches
Me and my team use feature branches (with git). I'm wondering which is the best strategy for code review before merge to master.
I checkout a new branch from master, lets call it fb_#1
I commit a ...
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Why doesn't Git daemon start in the background? [closed]
Just as in the title, why doesn't git daemon start the service in the background, since it's a "daemon", being a background process? I know that I can start it in the background using git daemon ...
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Etiquette for editing someone's pull request
I own a repository on GitHub to which someone sent a pull request with one single commit. I only want to implement his solution partially, and use about half of the code changes the user made. What ...
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Could a reflog replace tags for bookkeeping?
My repository has a branch production and is filled with countless tags of the format production-20130101-1234 that point to what has been actually shipped on the given datetime.
I think this ...
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Two or one git repo for Android app + web service backend?
I'm wondering what the best practice is for my git repository structure where I have an Android application + a web service backend. In general, I'd like to release these two independently (e.g., perf ...
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New to git, pushed code to my repo and did a pull request, it was merged, but my username shows up as “Ubuntu” on the other person's page [migrated]
I made some bug fixes to an open source project on my local machine. I pushed the code to my github account then initiated a pull request (from? for? to?) the original author of the code.
Why does ...
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Why do git commits not contain the name of the branch they were created on?
When working with git in a team using feature branches, I often find it
difficult to understand the branch structure in history.
Example:
Let's say there was a feature branch feature/make-coffee, ...
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which directory to initialize git repo
I'm just getting started with Git. I'll be doing PHP development and was wondering if I should initialize my repo within my server root folder, or any directory on my hard drive and publish my ...
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git rebase and keep all child branches [migrated]
I'm trying to import a CVS repository into git. Unfortunately, we've been using a really old method of creating releases from our CVS repo, that doesn't involve any actual CVS branches or tags, but ...
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How to complete uninstall git from Ubuntu Desktop 12.04? [migrated]
About 6 months ago I tried installing git and ended up botching the install/configuration. I was then called away to another project and no longer needed to use git. I'm back to the project now, and ...
