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github url style

Hi all, I wanted to have users within my website to have their own URL like http://mysite.com/username (similar to GitHub, e.g. my account is http:// github. com/sr3d). This would help with SEO since every profile is under the same domain, as apposed to the sub-domain approach. My site is running on Rails and Nginx/Passenger. Current...

Github network graph looks like metro map

I was just wondering if other people working in a team using github for private projects had the same kind of Network map ? Or are we doing something obviously wrong ? ...

GitHub solution for personal repo

So I've got my private SVN repo on my home server, and it has maybe 30 different modules thrown together in it, ranging from abortive throw-away larks to a few endeavors that might actually go somewhere someday. But a recent filesystem failure (BTW, never ever EVER use XFS without a battery-backed hardware RAID) has me spooked and thinki...

How should I begin to help projects in Github?

I'm new to github and I like to help other people with his projects that I find interesting. I know there's a lot of guides in the github place, but I think it could be nice to gather a bunch of real people's experiences. So, I invite you to post about your first experiences in github. Whether you are a not-so-newbie or you are a heavy ...

How do I set GIT to use Plink.exe

I'm trying to configure Git to use Plink, now for some reason this option isn't available to me I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Git a hundred times I can't get to this option ...

Publish git repository to remote http server

I work on a git repository where we build an php community but i need to show it somewhere so I am looking for a way to automatic upload my files to a remote http server when i push to the repository. Thanks /Victor ...

git destroyed my changes

I made a commit of my repository a week ago but never actually pushed it to the remote at github, which I did today. However, in the time from my commit I made many changes to the source. But just the initial commit was pushed to remote and while doing it, it also overwrote my local files. What can I do to get back my current files?? ...

A way to add markup to gist in http://gist.github.com/ ?

Seems like a lot of people use gists for cheatsheets, including me, so unlike code line wrapping would be nice! Any way to do this? ...

Git on live Windows Server - Trying to pull from the repo but local files already modified

I have my Git repository hosted at github.com. I would like to push updates and such to github.com and then log into my Windows server and do a git pull to get my changes (that are verified to work on my local machine. Ideally I should have another server setup as my local machine settings are different from the live server. But I'm chea...

Leaving Github, how to change the origin of a Git repo?

I'm hosting a project in Github, but now I purchased a plan with Dreamhost that includes shell access and Git. Github [Origin] / \ pull/ \pull /push push\ / \ Laptop Dreamhost (cloned) (cloned) I would like to delete my repo from Github, and starting push...

svn:externals a sub-folder of a git project

Hi, is there a way to get only a part (ex: a sub-folder called /library) of a github.com project and use it in svn:externals? What I'm doing now is $svn pe svn:externals . SomeLibrary http://svn.github.com/myuser/myproject.git But I don't want everything from the project... I need something like: $svn pe svn:externals . SomeLi...

Rails and Git workflow advice.

Hi Everyone, I need some advice with my desired setup with git and Rails. Basically for my first Rails application I used a base application template from GitHub, I then made a ton of changes and now have a full application which is fairly customised. I have now extracted all of the changes I made to the files within the base applica...

Is what GitHub is doing here a good practice?

If you view this URL, you'll see that GitHub is posting all sorts of technical information. Is this a good practice so that users can email info to you about bugs, etc? http://waitdownload.github.com/cheetahtemplate-cheetah-v2.4.2-0-gd20b523.zip It's at least a good design for an error page. ...

How to get rid of bogus changes in git?

I'm a happy user of PortableGit 1.7.0.2. Today I wanted to pull a project changes from GitHub.com repository, so I did git pull. It failed with the following message: error: Your local changes to 'main.rb' would be overwritten by merge. Aborting.. I didn't care about the local changes so I typed git reset --hard HEAD (git clean from here...

Protect Files from Git

I'm using Git with WindRiver to manage a project of mine. The code is being managed, however the project files (such as .cproject, .project, .wrmakefile, and .wrproject) are not. However when I switch branches, Git deletes those files spite them being in .gitignore, thereby removing my ability to compile the code without having to revert...

Master repository and local repositories in the same machine.

I am new to Git. I have created a master repository in a linux server. The same server is going to be used by 5 groups of 3 users each. I want to create one local repository for each group. And the group members in turn should create one local repository for each of them, play with the contents and committ the modificatons to the group's...

Is it ok to put any existing open-source project into github?

This question is more about Open-Source etiquette, and the new approach that the likes of github and gitorious gives to collaboration and source ownership. Can you just take any Open-Source project from somewhere else (e.g SourceForge, with a clear project team and community) and put it into your own github repository, provided that you...

Committing failed from Egit eclipse

Hello, I am trying to commit my stuff to github from eclipse on ubuntu. But I get the message: Committing changes has encountered a problem. Committing failed Prepairing trees /var/www/project/public/.htaccess.save (permission denied) I don't know how to solve this problem. Can anyone help me? ...

github "origin" deletion

Hey all im trying to delete this "origin" thing so i can actually run the tutorial code from this website http://www.railstutorial.org/book#sec:github this is the code im trying to run $ git remote add origin [email protected]:delinquentme/first_app.git and im getting this returned: fatal: remote origin already exists problem is t...

Creating a submodule in a git project

Hi, I have a Django project and it's currently hosted in GitHub and it's private. I'm looking to move many useful parts of it into an open-source project. I think I need to use a 'submodule' thing, but unfortunately I have no idea how to operate these. Please can someone help me :) Joe ...