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Push and Pull Branches In Git

I have a local repository I'm working on and it's remote is hosted on GitHub. I recently created a branch and started working on it making several commits and now wish to push the branch to GitHub and be able to pull it to another cloned repository. What needs to be done to accomplish this? If this is not possible using GitHub I'd be ...

Are github gems less stable than rubyforge gems?

In this question, I mentioned my assumption that rubyforge gems are more official, authoritative, and stable than github forks. One of the people replying to my question said that my assumption might not be accurate. What have you observed? Do people use github to release early and release often, only putting stable releases on rubyforg...

Using the newest gem version regardless of source

Can I ask ruby or rubygems to use the latest gem regardless of its source? As mentioned in the update to this question, it turns out that ruby is using an older github gem (hmcgowan-roo 1.3.5) over a newer rubyforge gem that was installed more recently (roo 1.3.6). My suspicion is that the magic pixy (either ruby or rubygems) looks und...

Github doubt - sync repo

I've never used a code source control system and I'm starting with GitHub and it looks amazing! I read the guides and I think I can understand pretty well how it works, and I'm working with it already, but something is not clear to me: does GitHub automatically sync the changes in the original repo to my fork? I've forked a project and...

Merging between forks in GitHub

I forked a GitHub repository. Then I pushed some changes to my fork. Then the original repository merged my changes and some others. Now, I want to merge those changes I'm missing. I tried a simple pull followed by push, but this yield my commits in duplicate. What's the best way to do it? ...

Can I checkout github wikis like a git repository?

I want to modify and view github wikis with local editor like Emacs, and Google Code wikis can be checked out just like code. Is there any way to checkout github wikis? Or is there any other git repository provider offers such feature? ...

git new repository

ppl, I have put my project on github at some location [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git. Now I want to push all my code to a new repository at some new location [email protected]:newname/newrep.git... so I used the command git remote add origin [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git but I am receiving this fatal: remote origin alrea...

git show remote repository (display the contents of a single file)

Is there any way to get the contents of a single file from a remote git repository? "git archive" looks promising, except that GitHub has it explicitly disabled. The following StackOverflow question generally had the right idea: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125476/git-retrieve-a-single-file-from-a-repository In our situation, w...

msysgit commit encoding

I am using msysgit on windows vista. I am still very new to it and on my first committed code to github another member said that all the tabs were replaced with spaces. Could it be possible that msysgit is changing this? I am editing the files in VS2008. Is is just come c sharp .cs files. ...

Forking private git repo in github.com

Hi, I wonder if this is possible. I have a "starter project" in github (private repository). What I like to do is create customerA repo (also private) but it should be forked from the "starter project". My idea is that Customer B, Customer C, all could have their own private repo and if I fix a bug which are generic in the "starter p...

Multiple git repo in one project

I'm using github as a repo for a little project, but I'd also like to use some code written by another github user. Is it possible to setup a /library/libraryname folder inside my project which maintains it's links back to the other users repo as well as being part of my projects commits? For example: If the other user updates their co...

Accessing the git shell in GitX on OS X

I know this sounds very basic, but I couldn't find where I can access the git shell in GitX. A bonus question: Do I have to use the shell in order to clone a repo from GitHub? ...

Git push to GitHub failing - seems to be trying to use HTTP?

I've setup a Hudson continuous intgration server on an Ubuntu 8.04 slice, git version 1.6.4. I am able to have it pull code from a private repo GitHub, but I can't seem to get it to push the tags back after a build. I see the following: # sudo -u hudson git push --tags XML error: syntax error error: Error: no DAV locking support on http...

Detatch subdirectory into separate git repository - On github

Ive got a project on github which has ended up with a project "inside" and I would like to do a move like described in detach-subdirectory-into-separate-git-repository. My added question is, how do i effectuate this on github as well? ...

How to fork a git project given only the .git directory?

So there is the guy on the internet who wrote a ton of code and stored it all on github. One day, said guy just up and disappears deleting all of his repositories. Thankfully, there were many forks of his main projects but still there were many smaller repos that were not forked. However, I managed to use the Github API to periodicall...

How do I merge an existing git repository into an empty one and preserve the history?

I have a project that I've been working on called "system" that I set up as a repo. I've been pulling and pushing to the project (system.git). Now I want to publish it to a site like github. What is the best way to take my current project and push it into the new github project without losing my history? Thanks! ...

Github Issues Forum

Anyone having trouble seeing open or all issue within github. Suppose I have several issues display within my dashboard. But when I tried to open, it always gives me empty result. I've tried with Firefox 3, chrome 2/3, and IE 7/8. Anyone knows how to troubleshoot it ? Or it just github bug? ...

Git: How do I pull a tagged revision into my fork?

I have a fork of a project on github where the main trunk was recently tagged. I want to pull the code from the tagged revision into my fork. How would I do that? ...

Replicate github style git server architecture

I am trying to setup a git server at work that uses the integration manager workflow detailed here (which is what github uses). I've followed getting started tutorials and already setup a server with gitosis installed and everything and I'm looking for direction with regaards to implementation of this specific workflow. ...

Configuring GitHub to automatically build new ruby gems

I just added a new gem to GitHub. Check it out: http://github.com/esilverberg/google_otg Unfortunately, it cannot be installed via the command: gem install esilverberg-google_otg And this is because it is not showing up in: http://gems.github.com/list.html So it is not being built by GitHub. I followed their really simple instructi...