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How to download all repositories of a GitHub account to my personal computer without using github cli? [duplicate]
I use WSL Ubuntu 18.04 unchanged.
I have one GitHub user with 6 GitHub repositories of that user.
Basically I just need to download all my GitHub repositories as I wish to make a local backup of all ...
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Is it possible to parse a command's arguments automatically?
I would like to modify the git clone command -- such that it use a local cache -- by creating a wrapper that does the following:
If a repository doesn't exist in the cache, clone it.
Copy it to the ...
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accessing git-annex special remote from new repository
I'm using git-annex in version 7.20190129 as it is provided on my Debian Stable (Buster) machine to keep big files under version control and have them distributed over multiple machines and drives. ...
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How to properly solve "git-gui: command not found" on Arch Linux?
The Arch Linux git package installs git-gui under /usr/lib/git-core/.
This means git-gui cannot be launched directly from the terminal without specifying the full path:
$ git-gui
bash: git-gui: ...
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How to generate (git) diffs with <n> characters of context?
The --unified=<n> option lets you set the number of lines; is there a way to do the same for characters?
example
limit the context around the changes to X character(s) when using git diff --...
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Git: change content of previous commit and push [closed]
I'm reviewing a repo and I'd like to make some comments, it would add more content like adding comments, make some changes ..etc.
How to change content of files of previous commit and do push, I'm ...
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Git: keep color of git stash list --pretty=<..> through a pipe
I have this command:
git stash list --pretty="%C(yellow)%h %>(14)%Cgreen%cr %C(blue)%gs"
gives output colored, but if I pipe it git stash list <..> | less -R, color disappear in output.
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is there a command line terminal interface to git [closed]
I am looking for an command line terminal based git client interface to git on centos linux.is it available?
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Accessing a git repository through ssh-config
I am trying to push to my git repository from cygwin but in vain. It used to work. I get
$ git push
ssh: Could not resolve hostname prooftheory: Name or service not known
fatal: Could not read from ...
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pass answer to git command
I try to get "git pull". It is asking for username and password. How i can automate it?
➜ git:(master) git pull
Username for 'http://127.0.0.1': username
Password for 'http://[email protected]': ...
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bash if condition on git command result
I have the following error due an invalid git command within my shell-script. git push blabla master results in fatal: 'blabla' does not appear to be a git repository
I would like to respond to ...
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inaccessible directory
I git cloned into a directory "/source" before I mkdired it. It did not show up in its parent directory, but when I run the ls command, the output is indented like this:
database static ...
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Updating a git variable in the Shell prompt on every command
I am running TCSH and I would like to update my prompt every time I run a command. I think can currently do that via backticks.
set tmpstr = `git status --untracked-files=no --porcelain`
set ...
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Broken git autocompletion after I have overridden the git command
Recently git branch <tab> started showing me the following error:
$ git branch bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash: -c: line 0: `/usr/bin/git --git-dir=.git for-each-...
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How to create a deterministic tar.gz using git-archive?
Creating a git repository for testing.
~ $ mkdir somefolder
~ $ cd somefolder/
~/somefolder $ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/somefolder/.git/
~/somefolder $ echo test > ...
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Is it possible to restrict certain commands from being run in a directory?
I have two directories: src and projects. I would like to prevent myself from running git ... unless I am specifically inside src or projects. Is this possible?
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Bash commands with spaces in them (git config or git-config?)
Please forgive me if this seems easy, but I only started learning Unix 2 days ago.
Basically, I have been taught that when typing a command into the terminal it needs to be of the form:
[command ...
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What does "--" mean in Linux/Unix command line? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does “--” (double-dash) mean?
git diff [options] [<commit>] [--] [<path>…]
In here, how should I understand what [--] means? And when should I use it.
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Git auto-complete
I am using Git as many of you do. Also, I don't use any GUI for that — just CLI. So I was wondering: are there any way to make Git commands (git status, git checkout etc.) complete themselves when ...
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Installing git "sudo: apt-get: command not found"
I am trying to install git. I run the following command:
sudo apt-get install git-core git-gui git-doc
But receive the following error:
sudo: apt-get: command not found
What should I do?
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Change command-line "environment" to programs command
In a console, is it possible to change into a commands "environment"? To explain, I take "git" as an example. While programming and using a git repository, I change to the repos path and then do many "...
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Execute a command in a different path
When using Git VCS, I execute all of the git commands on the directory that contains a .git repository. I want to execute a git-pull through an SSH trigger but how do I define the path to the ...
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