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How to go back to the last commit in the history after I used git reset to go to an older changeset?

Suppose my history goes that way : A - B - C - D (master) If I do git reset B, I'll got : A - B (master) Trouble is, git log now show me only the history from A to B, and I can't see C and D anymore. How can I go back to D ? ...

Wont Let Me Type In My Pass Phrase

Not real information: $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]" Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/Tekkub/.ssh/id_rsa): ssh.txt I entered a file name here. Not sure if i should have, Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): I am stuck here. I type and it doesnt work ...

Is there a difference between "git reset --hard hash" and "git checkout hash"?

While reset and checkout have different usages most of the time, I can't see what difference there is between these two. There probably is one or nobody would have bothered adding a "--hard" option to do something the basic "checkout" can do. Maybe there is a difference is the way you will see the history? ...

What is a good .gitignore to use with Rails on Heroku?

What is a good .gitignore to use with Rails on Heroku? *.log *.sqlite3 what else? ...

What are the differences between GIT and SVN when it comes to merge conflicts solving.

I keep hearing that branching in git is so much easier than in SVN, because it's easier to merge the branch back to trunk/master. I've read some tutorials, but they only covered basic merge conflicts ("Alice changed line 8 of code.cpp and at the same time Bob changed line 8 of code.cpp...") and there are no differences between SVN and al...

recovering from git rebase

I have a local branch work, where I created two new files a.py, b.py and committed them. Then, instead of doing "git rebase origin/master", I accidently typed "git rebase origin master", and now the commit I did is gone and the files are gone. Does anyone know how I can recover my files? ...

Git + GitHub + Heroku

Hi All, I am new to the world of Git, GitHub and Heroku. So far, I am enjoying this paradigm but coming from a background with SVN, things seems a bit complicated to me in the world of Git. I am facing a problem for which I am looking for a solution. Scenario: 1. I have setup a new private project on GitHub. I forked the private proje...

git strategy to have a set of commits limited to a particular branch

I need to merge between dev and master frequently. I also have a commit that I need to apply to dev only, for things to work locally. Earlier I only merged from dev to master, so I had a branch production_changes that contained the "undo commit" of the dev special commit. and from the master, I merged this. Used to work fine. Now each...

Using Git with shared (symbolic link) directories

I'm working on a big Qt application with multiple widgets which are quite complex. One of this widget is a webcam stream viewer. The application is organized so that each program module (i.e. widgets) is stored in its own directory with a .pri file. All these are stored in one main directory grouping all the widget directories. Next ...

Git ignore sub folders

I have a lot of projects in my .Net solution. I would like to exclude all "bin/Debug" and "bin/Release" folders (and their contents), but still include the "bin" folder itself and any dll's contained therein. .gitignore with "bin/" ignores "Debug" and "Release" folders, but also any dll's contained in the "bin" folder. "bin/Debug" or "...

How can I email someone a git repository?

I have tried: git archive HEAD --format=zip > archive.zip :and then I email archive.zip and at the other end they unzip archive.zip into a folder. But when they try any git commands they find out that this does not produce a valid git repository ...

Git and ssh authorizating

Hello, I can't login to github with generated ssh-keys. I've followed this manual: http://help.github.com/linux-key-setup but at step: ssh [email protected] I get: Agent admitted failure to sign using the key. Permission denied (publickey). What's wroing? And, of course, I'm adding my own user email. Tried dsa-key, the s...

Cloning a git-from-svn repository and getting all the remote branches

I'm struggling to understand how to be able to clone a git repository from Subversion, and then clone that repository to another machine (git-to-git) and still have access to all the original Subversion branches and tags. Here's what I've done, and where I'm running into roadblocks. First, on machine A, I cloned my Subversion repositor...

plugin from github not successfully installing

When I place this in my base application html.haml file: = javascript_include_tag :defaults, 'jquery-1.3.2.min', 'highcharts' <!--[if IE]> javascript_include_tag 'excanvas.compiled' <![endif]--> %script{:type => "text/javascript"} $(document).ready(function() { = yield :javascripts }); I get a textual description of a graph that is su...

Create a listing of changed files/directories/etc. using git between two tags

I need to generate a changelog of sorts between two Tags within a project controlled using git. Specifically the android source code. This list should include any files/directories/etc which have been edited, moved, renamed, deleted, created. Any help would be great. and if you have a way to do this over the entire android source at once...

Gitweb: How I see source code in tree view with color

I use gitweb. In the tree view I see my source code. But this code is all in black, I like configurated to added highlight ...

Best support now on windows: Mercurial or Git?

I want to change my current subversion setup to Mercurial or Git. I read about the two and I have a conflicted view about how well they work on windows. Alot of pages say Git is sub-par on windows, slow and badly integrated. And almost everyone say Mercurial is better. But some say Git now is better and Mercurial is behind. I check th...

Git: how do you merge with remote repo?

Please help me understand how git works. I clone my remote repository on two different machines. I edit the same file on both machines. I successfully commit and push the update from the first machine to the remote repository. I then try to push the update on the second machine, but get an error: ! [rejected] master -> master ...

Git : Failed at pushing to remote server, ' REPOSITORY_PATH ' is not a git command

I'm using Git with TortoiseGit on Windows XP, and I have a remote bare repository on Windows Vista 64bit version. When I tried to push my local files to remote bare repository, I got the following error message. git.exe push "origin" master:master git: '/Git_Repository/.git' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. fatal: The remot...

How do I alias commands in git?

I saw a screencast where someone had gotten git st git ci to work. When I do it I get an error asking me if I meant something else. Being a git newb, I need to know what you have to do to get this done? ...