Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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Automatically backup usb drive to computer
I am trying to create a personal sync system for my project. I don't want to use something like dropbox, bittorrent sync, owncloud etc for various reasons.
At the moment, I have my computers setup ...
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How to set multiple `core.excludesfile` in `.gitconfig`?
I'm syncing ~/.gitconfig and ~/.gitignore files in ubuntu and Mac by using dropbox and created symlink for it.
And excludesfile is declared like this.
[core]
editor = /usr/bin/vim
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How to create a git repo using Nginx?
I've a CentOS 5 server at domain.fr. I am trying to set a subdomain so that I can use it with git : git.domain.fr
My repositories are in /home/git (example /home/git/repos.git)
I've installed ...
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Extract given tarball and retar it exactly
My versioned project uses the contents of an upstream tarball. I would like to extract the contents in such a way as to be able to recreate the original tarball exactly. The reason is that I don't ...
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what starts runsv on a Debian system using init and how?
A bit of background: I installed git-daemon-run on a Debian system, and now git-daemon starts at boot automatically, even though there is no init script for it in /etc/init.d.
I did some digging and ...
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Patching the kernel source through git
I'm trying to understand how the patching of the kernel source works.
I found the patch that I would like to try an apply on the following page. I found no .patch files that I can use to apply the ...
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safely override oh-my-zsh configurations
I made some changes to my oh-my-zsh configurations, namely I changed an alias in /lib/aliases.zsh and commented out a function in a plugin that I overrode in a script.
I'm wondering if there is a way ...
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Unable to make .zhistory a symbolic link
Every time I try to make my Zsh history file (.zhistory file) a symbolic link to a file (previously existing .zhistory file) that lives in another folder, Zsh deletes the symbolic link and makes it a ...
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High-level user on Media Temple DV managed server (Plesk)
I've recently set up a DV Managed server from Media Temple. I'm not sure if my question is specific to Media Temple, Plesk or Linux in general.
I'm open to alternatives but basically what I am trying ...
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Strange symbols instead of normal icons and sidekiq issue in GitLab
After setting the relative url in gitlab:
# Note that three settings need to be changed for this to work.
# 1) In your application.rb file: config.relative_url_root = "/gitlab"
# 2) In your ...
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adding SSL certificate for Github only (not all certificates from ca-certificates package)
I get the following error when accessing Github over HTTPS:
error: server certificate verification failed.
CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none
This is because I don't have any ...
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SSH login from external authentication
Here is what I try to accomplish:
I have a server with a git repository.
I use ISPConfig as control panel for our websites and I want to integrate the ISPConfig API for email authentication as second ...
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Codeswarm visualization: how to quickly setup OpenGL rendering mode on Linux (Archbang x86_64)?
The Codeswarm project provides a software project repositories visualization tool in Java. The software leverages the commit information from a log generated from a repository that you clone locally. ...
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Installing Git, Curl, and Expat from Source
I have a RHEL 6.4 VM provisioned by my companies internal KVM.
We are having some trouble using yum (Cannot retrieve repository metadata, which Ive confirmed in this case is peculiar to my company's ...
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How can I add an x509 certificates bundle (ca-bundle.crt) to NSS database (~./pki/nssdb)
I'm currently using RedHat Enterprise 6. Git had issues cloning Github repos using HTTPS. After some investigation (e.g. enabling GIT_CURL_VERBOSE and GIT_TRACE) the problem was narrowed to a ...
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apply specific command for each git repository
I want compress all the git repositories on my computer (say in ~). I.e., for each directory {}, that contains directory or file (in case of submodules) named .git, I want to execute git gc ...
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Git hanging while cloning source
I am cloning firmware source using git clone but during the operation my Internet connection went down. I immediately restored the connection, but now the git clone process is hanging.
Can I kill ...
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git push fails with remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
I'm recently trying to start my own project on a community git repo, and I've been having some complications. I'm new to git, but here's what I've been trying to do to just test it.
I run the ...
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Getting branch from git
let's say I want to get this branch the same way I get the latest one, using git clone git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git. How do I do it?
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How to migrate SVN to git [closed]
Can someone tell me the steps on how to migrate svn to git?
I have repositories in svn and I want to move all them to git without the loss of data.
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Why am I getting git error “remote: error: unable to create temporary file: No such file or directory” on push?
This problem is getting weirder.
My original post follows, but here is the new thing I discovered:
I executed
git push
and it gave me its usual error:
Counting objects: 9, done.
Delta ...
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Why am I getting so many hits searching for “git” in the aptitude cache?
When I give the following command:
apt-cache search git | wc -l
I get the answer 756. How can I list just the half-dozen or so apps associated with git?
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diff --git unknown option
when I try to run
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
I get unknown option (I have installed git via apt-get install git)
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Does git contain information about used id / group id changes?
I have googling awhile, but can not find such information. Looks like git doesn't contain users and groups, only permissions. Am I right?
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Granting access to a restricted git shell
I tried setting up git-shell on our CentOS (6.4) system (after getting this working correctly on Ubuntu 13.10, maybe cross platform hot mess?)
my /etc/passwd shows
git:x:500:500:Web Archive ...
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How to use rsync to backup a directory without git subdirectory
I want to copy my c directory with all subdirectories excluding ./git subdirectory. I do it using rsync :
echo "copy c and sh files "
rsync -a --include='*.c' --include='*.sh' --include='*/' ...
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git-upload-pack hangs indefinitely
I have the following call structure:
Jenkins runs fab -Huser@host set_repository_commit_hash:123abc.
set_repository_commit_hash runs git fetch with pty = False.
The child process ssh [email protected] ...
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git and sshfs: status is inaccurate
I am mounting a git repository on a virtual machine over sshfs onto my host machine. So far so good. However, git claims that there are many uncommitted changes when viewing the repository over sshfs. ...
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a file to be in git or not to be?
I didn't prevent same problem:
I don't use git rm projects.py and when i use :
git cp projectsTABTAB
projectsFindFrame.py projectsInsert.py
Also when i use:
git show ...
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copy a single file from local repository GIT
I need to copy a SINGLE FILE from LOCAL REPOSITORY to my machine, not git-pull or git-fetch, how can i do it?
Is it possible to get it via hash ?
such as a3ea2118bf1c5e2c6aa0974d0b6ff7415bd044ef ?
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`git remote add` to home dir by `~` expression
I created git bare repository in my home directory like ~/git-repos/foo.git.
To add a remote repository I typed like git remote add origin ssh://username@hostname:10022~/git-repo/foo.git.
But it ...
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Running git with higher memory allocation
I am facing memory/data segment issues while running git. However, if I set my ulimits to a bit higher like below.
ulimit -m 262144
ulimit -d 262144
It runs fine. Don't we have anyway to allocate ...
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md5sum check fails for git-man-pages.tar.gz package
When I try to verify the integrity of git-man-pages package I downloaded from "http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/detail?name=git-manpages-1.8.4.tar.gz&can=2&q=" it fails with error.
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couldn't update git via git clone comand
I am just a beginner in Git. Was following through the documentation and installed Git using source code package. Now, after installing Git, I want to update it (Though it might be unnecessary at this ...
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Permission Denied (PublicKey,keyboard-interactive) linux raspberry pi
I know there are a ton of questions on this.
I have read almost all of them.
I have also googled this problem to no avail
I attempted to
git clone [email protected]:myhubname.git
and I get
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'Git clone' times out with 443 error message
git clone -v https://github.com/me/myproj
Cloning into 'myproj'...
<minutes pass>
error: Failed connect to github.com:443; Operation now in progress while accessing ...
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Allow www-data to perform specific commands
I need a PHP script to perform git pull however I am not naive enough to give it permissions on git. I've wrapped git pull in a script which www-data has permissions for, but I'm not sure how to give ...
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Git completions for aliases only available after running `git reflog`
I have a few aliases that I want to autocomplete for git, e.g., the following
alias gco="git checkout"
When I was attempting to add completions for this alias, I looked around in my path and saw ...
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How to extend a command in bash so that it expands based on options?
I've started working with a git repository that includes a large amount of content that should be assumed readonly. So, every time I throw a new branch:
git checkout -b newBranch
it should be ...
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How to setup Git server on Linux Container in Debian
I have a LXC container on my Debian system. I want to setup a public Git server on it so that it's accessible to other people. How can I do this?
UPDATE #1
Link to apache2.conf: ...
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How do I apply this revert commit patch from git?
I have found a patch applicable to my system to fix a problem but I have no idea how to get this patch and then apply it. Can anybody help me please?
Patch: ...
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SSH: “Permission denied” after changing user shell
I have an SSH server running on my Raspberry PI with ALARM (up to date).
My user "gitroot" is meant to use the git-shell. However, when i set /usr/bin/git-shell as shell for gitroot in /etc/passwd, i ...
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Use git submodule foreach with function
My indention is to have a script that updates all git submodules according to which branch is given. If there's no such branch for a submodule, master is used.
This is what I have now:
#!/bin/bash ...
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etckeeper for opensuse - bash script install and configure
I want to automate the installation of etckeeper on OpenSuse 12.3.
My first issue is that etckeeper doesn't seem to be available in the standard OpenSuse repos.
zypper search etckeeper
Loading ...
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Amazon EC2: Giving Permanent Permission To A Sepecific Directory In Amazon Linux AMI
I have a Symfony2 project that needs full read write permissions to three directories: app/cache, app/logs, and few other directories which are used for uploading. The problem is everytime I push an ...
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Getting diff (or git diff) to show inserted hunks properly
Let's say I have two files. The first one has the contents:
line 1
foo
line 2
line 1
bar
line 2
And the second one has a new section inserted in the middle, so it looks like this:
line 1
foo
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Installing Git Unit
I am trying to install git using my yum command
Following is the error log
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
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'setfacl' permissions don't apply to directories created by git clone?
Here's how I am setting permissions for my website's root directory i.e. ~/public_html, where the files that my website serves are placed:
sudo chgrp -R www-data ~/public_html
chmod g+s ~/public_html
...
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Git pull error libcurl.so.3 not found
I have a php script to git pull from my github repository set up in my webservice hook urls like so:
<?php
echo shell_exec('~/git/usr/bin/git pull 2>&1');
?>
When I open this script ...
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How to use git for this particular purpose?
Here is the situation. There are two machines, laptop A and workstation B. B has a fixed IP, A has a dynamic IP, and I want to avoid the need of connecting from B to A (setting up an ssh tunnel for ...
