I'm using git's branching feature to manage 5 variations of a small website. There are 5 versions that will all be live in different subdirectories on production. My approach to checking out the various branches to their respective folders was to: mkdir foo && cd foo git init git remote add origin git@...:project.git git fetch origin ...
I'd read that when renaming files in git, you should commit any changes, perform your rename and then stage your renamed file. Git will recognise the file from the contents, rather than seeing it as a new untracked file, and keep the change history. However, doing just this tonight I ended up reverting to git mv. > $ git status # On br...
I am having a strange issue that I can't seem to resolve. Here is what happend: I had some log files in a github repository that I didn't want there. I found this script that removes files completely from git history like so: #!/bin/bash set -o errexit # Author: David Underhill # Script to permanently delete files/folders from you...
Hi, I'm on Mac Snow Leopard and I just installed git. I just tried git clone [email protected]:cakebook.git but that gives me this error. Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/username/Documents/cakebook/.git/ Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly What am I missing? I've also tried doing ssh...
I'm currently on a stable 2.6.32 kernel. But I need certain fixes on 2.6.33 branch to be incorporated into this 2.6.32 kernel so that I can create a custom kernel for testing purposes. I can't apply the said fixes directly to the 2.6.32 source because they seem to have dependencies on other fixes. Is there any safe way to incorporate on...
It doesn't look like git-p4 is part of the MSys-Git project for Windows. Does anybody know how to get it running through Windows? ...
Whenever I run git fetch it fetches all the tags from origin. In a project with lots of tags, this can get quite bothersome. So I ran git config remote.origin.tagopt --no-tags so fetching will no-longer fetch tags. However, there are some times when I do want to fetch tags, or a single tag. Does anyone know how to do this? (besides remo...
At work, development doesn't have revision control. By this I mean that we are only allowed to check into the P4 depot when the change set is ready for regression testing. We can't check in intercolary changes! There are a host of problems with having no revision control during development that I don't need to go into here. Instead, I...
Is it possible to merge changes from a central repo to a local branch without having to commit/stash the edits on the local branch and checkout master? If I am working on local branch "work" and there are some uncommited changes, I use the following steps to get updates from the central repo into my working branch. git stash git checko...
I'm currently using git on windows through a combination of msysgit and Cygwin. I have a laptop which I move around quite a bit, so it's not on a consistent location. Unfortunately, I don't have a consistent name for it due to the computer name not being resolved on all of the locations I connect to, so I can't just use the computer na...
I have two branches master and exp i tried to cherry pick some of the commit in the exp to master.I am getting the following error. git cherry-pick 209c4b154d3c15fa8086d4cc15fa34e53b8a65a3 fatal: Dirty index: cannot cherry pick Can anyone explain this error. ...
Am using mysgit for windows, but mysgit vi editor is unable to do syntax highlighting and indentation for my source code (html/python/css .... files) I managed to copy the syntax folder from my original GVIM7.2 installation to Git Vim72 installation folder, now i see like syntax highlighting is active. What am unable to do is indentati...
This is probably an easy question... I have 4 source versions of the same software in 4 different directories. I have just started using git for version control. To date, I have just been snapping a desperate copy rolling forward. I want to merge all versions (1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.2, 1.0.0.3, 1.0.1.0) together so that I will have a reference...
Git is notorious by its encouraged length limit for commit message titles: first line should not be more than 50 characters long (to fit an e-mail header). That reminds me of... well, is there a hook that automatically posts commit messages to twitter as soon as they're pushed to the server? ...
New to git here... I want to commit my personal file share to a git repo (text, docs, images etc). As I make modifications to various files over time, telling git about them along the way, how do go about things so I can: Get out of the business of traditional fulls/incrementals. Be able to do a point-in-time file or full clone resto...
I started a github project a few weeks ago. I was able to push changes without any problems (I'm using TortoiseGIT). Suddenly today when I tried to push my changes, I got "PuTTY Fatal Error" "Disconnected: No supported authentication methods availble" error window. Anything you can recommend to remedy the problem? ...
I have a large collection of my personal scripts that I would like to start versioning using Git. I've previously organized my code as follows: ~/code/python/projects/ (for large stuff, each project contained in an individual folder) ~/code/python/scripts/ (single file scripts all contained in this directory) ~/code/python/sandbox/ (my ...
How can I check if I have any uncommitted changes in my git repository: Changes added to the index but not committed Untracked files from a script? git-status seems to always return zero with git version 1.6.4.2. ...
once you have checked out a svn repository with git-svn, and you do some work, push your commits to the svn repository ? ...
I just created a big piece of code I want to commit in several separate commits. So I can stage relevant parts, commit, stage, commit, ... and so on until I have all my changes commited. The missing part is how can I test whether I split the commit correcty. I.e. whether the part that is in staging area at least compiles? To do that I ...