Questions tagged [github]
Git repository hosting service - May be better on Web Apps or Stack Overflow
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How do I ensure Git doesn't ask me for my GitHub username and password?
I am working with a repo on GitHub and everytime I try to push something, it asks for my GitHub username and password. I don't want it doing that.
I tried the instructions on setting your email in ...
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Is there a way to edit a commit message on GitHub?
Is there a way to edit a commit message after committing and pushing to GitHub? I see that there is a 'add a note' as well as inline commenting, but no actual editing of a commit message. There is ...
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How to switch git user at terminal?
I am trying to push a project to a remote repository from the command line.
From inside my local directory, I hit:
$ git push
and obtain the following error:
remote: Permission to username1/repo....
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Read Only access to GitHub repo via SSH key
I want to generate an SSH key with only READ permissions to be used with my GitHub account is it possible? or should I create another account with only read permission?
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SSH config - same host but different keys and usernames
I've set up two GitHub accounts, but I can't get ssh keys to work correctly. I've tried various configs.
Host github_username1
HostName github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/rsa_1
User username1
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Bring a local folder to remote git repo
I have a folder with all my files set up for a project.
I decided to use git on that folder, so I created on Github an empty repo.
Usually the procedure is to clone on my local disk the remote repo, ...
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Does Git delete empty folders?
I deleted all files from a directory in my work folder, but the directory itself still exists. After pushing the changes to a remote repository (GitHub) I checked my project and noticed that the ...
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Is a GitHub account required for cloning a repository?
I'm putting together some documentation and don't have access to a non-configured machine to test this myself
I'm curious if you need a GitHub account to clone a repository from GitHub to a local ...
Joseph Mainwaring
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Mark file as “uncommitable” with Git
I want to show off some of my work by uploading them to my GitHub account. However, there are some files that contain passwords, like database connections.
Is there a way of marking a file as ...
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Git push failing with Fatal: HttpRequestException encountered
lt is really strange that when l try to use git push today,error reports
Fatal: HttpRequestException encountered and requires me to enter username and password.
l have tried git pull and git clone ...
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How can I Resync a fork from original
I just forked a project in Github. I made modifications and sent a pull request. The owner merged my fork with the main project and after that he made some modifications. So for now my fork is not ...
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Connecting to github using PuTTY generated SSH key in Windows
On an otherwise pristine Windows 7 Enterprise install:
Install PuTTY 0.62
Create public/private key pair with puttygen.exe
Add public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys to github account
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github flavored markdown editor for osx [closed]
Do you know any editor for Mac OSX that helps with editing Github flavored markdown?
I think Mou ( http://mouapp.com/ ) is fine, only that its just plain markdown and not Github markdown.
Please, ...
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What does the git error message "Server does not allow request for unadvertised object" mean?
I am trying to do a checkout from github, and I got this error message:
[user@arch ~]$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow.git
Cloning into 'tcpflow'...
The authenticity of host '...
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Is it safe to store (encrypted) passwords on GitHub?
I am using pass to handle all my passwords. They are encrypted using GPG with a 4096 bits key, using the SHA256 algorithm. I am using a different password for every login in my password store.
One of ...
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Can not clone any git repository from github
Since the update to OS X 10.9.2 I am not able to clone any git repository from github.com
If I run the git clone command I get the following error:
git clone https://github.com/davedelong/...
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Use a specified key from ssh-agent
Along the lines of How to tell git which private key to use?
I would like to use a specific ssh key in a given situation.
My problem is that even when I specify '-i something' ssh uses the keys from ...
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How to push an existing Eclipse project to GitHub?
Currently I'm developing some applications that I want to share with the community using GitHub.
I've found a lot of tutorials on how to create a GitHub repository from scratch, but I couldn't find ...
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GitHub desktop not showing remote branches
GitHub (version 3.0.5.2) for Windows no longer shows me all the remote branches. This is working with a GitHub for Enterprise server.
For example, when I click on the branches drop down, it used to ...
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GitHub - completely messed up the local files of gitHub in my computer
I created a repo in the wrong folder. Meaning the User folder in OS where all the user folders are from pics, videos to documents. So I pushed that all to gitHub without knowing and now I can't create ...
Mauricio Sanchez
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git pull does nothing / git push just hangs / debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
I had an issue in ubuntu 13.10 and 12.10 where attempting to connect to github (git clone / pull / push or anything) would fail with no output.
I checked my /.ssh directory for config and any ssh ...
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Can I delete my fork before the pull request gets accepted? [closed]
I made a fork of a project on github, did a small correction and submitted a pull request. However, from every pull request “in line”, I can see that this developer will take a long time before ...
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How to pull a git repo from github with all unlinked commits
I'm wondering how to pull a repo with all of the commits that have not been gc'd, if that is possible..
is it something like:
$ git clone x
$ cd x
$ git fetch origin -f
? or something else?
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syntax for comments in github's README.md?
A GitHub repo is described in a text file README.md, in Daring Fireball's Markdown format. Does that language support comments, either as a feature or a quick hack? I'd like to have some text that ...
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GitHub for Windows Install Error
I'm trying to install the GitHub for Windows that I downloaded from the GitHub site. However, I get the following error message:
Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor.
I'm ...
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Can I integrate a Discord channel with GitHub pull requests?
I have a programming team that shares code using GitHub, but primarily communicates through Discord. How can I setup my team's Discord to automatically include updates about GitHub commits and pull ...
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Error from egit installation
Just installed a fresh 32 bit copy of Java and Eclipse. I'm now trying to add egit for the first time, following the instructions here (using the main repository).
I receive this error when I try to ...
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Monitor a Folder OSX for file changes then run a bash script [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Watch Filesystem in Real Time on OS X and Ubuntu
I'm looking for a efficient method to monitor a local directory in OSX and if any files have been changed in that directory ...
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How to download a private GitHub repo with no 'git' on my local machine?
What I want to do is to download private repository archive from GitHub, extract it, remove archive file and copy some directories that are inside downloaded project.
I tried to use wget but I cannot ...
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Find commit that first added a particular line of code on Github
I would like to find the commit that added the following lines of code to solver.cpp for the deep learning library caffe, which is hosted on Github. I am not a contributor or have any special ...
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How can I create a tag with Github for Mac?
GitHub for Mac OS X is cool software. I can do a lot of cool things with it (history, branches, etc) - but I don't know how to create tags. Can I do this with the GUI?
GitHub for Mac
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GitHub for Windows can not sync to repo while command line tools can
I have my git repos hosted on a server using Gitolite. I can access them using SSH like this and it works from Mac OS X/Linux:
git clone [email protected]
On a Windows 8 Box I now have installed ...
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How can I delete old commits in Github via terminal?
I have a repository.
How can I delete my old commits via terminal? My SSH key is uploaded.
(I'm using github pages, that's why version tracking is not important, don't want to waste Github's ...
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Cloned GitHub repos ask for a password, while originally created don't
I've just lost a bunch of repositories from my disk, so I've cloned them from GitHub. These are now asking for username and password each time I push something to GitHub. Those that haven't been ...
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Generate table of contents with links for GitHub markdown with pandoc
How to generate table of contents with links for GitHub markdown with pandoc?
I tried pandoc -f markdown_github --toc -s -S README.md -o new.md
It does create a table of contents but it has no link ...
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another "SSH connect to host github.com port 22: Bad file number"
I have a problem with my first-time SSH connection. Yes, I've already done your guides, already tried your "Dealing with firewalls and proxies" article and the problem is still occuring. I am using ...
Mariusz
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How to fix warning: Identity file github not accessible: No such file or directory?
Host github.com git
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github # I've tried also /home/freinn/.shh/github
There's no /home/freinn/github file created, have I to create it?
That's ...
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How to clone a git project from the website to your desktop?
When I try to clone a git repository to my Desktop it always takes me to the download page but it is already downloaded.
How can I clone it directly from the browser to PC ?
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sh.exe": clip: command not found
Friends
Im trying to copy the ssh key on to the clipboard and while on the git bash, Im getting
$ clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
sh.exe": clip: command not found
Im using Win7 , I tried using the ...
ronan
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Pushing a local repo to a GitHub repo which has dual-factor authentication
I'm trying to push code in my local repo (on an OS X 10.8.5 system with the GitHub app installed and logged into) to a repo I created on GitHub via their website, using the command line. Oddly, when I ...
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git push to github via cron on mac
I'm trying to use git push in a bash script being run by crontab to push a commit to github. At the end of the script I'm doing this:
# script processes some files, then:
git add -A
git commit -a -m "...
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Is it safe to delete a branch from a github fork once it's been merged upstream?
I've only recently tried my hand at forking in github and would like some "best practice" advice.
I created a branch in my fork, and that branch got pulled into master of the upstream project. It no ...
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Agent Forwarding Through Different Usernames (Git & Deployment)
This query isn't directly related to Git, but since one of Git's supported transports is SSH, and I'm trying to use agent-forwarding, I thought I would ask for clarification (the man pages have let me ...
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Gist vs repository on GitHub [closed]
Say you have a couple of projects that you want to host on GitHub, and they're all pretty small (i.e. each one is a single bash script with less than 100 lines).
Even though they're relatively small, ...
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Full github issue and project board integration for IntelliJ IDEA
I recently found out that apart from just simply pushing/pulling from a github repo from within IntelliJ IDEA, you can also create pull requests and create tasks and change lists based on issues on ...
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How do I configure git to use multiple SSH keys for different accounts on a Mac?
I have two GitHub accounts, one for work and one for personal use.
Due to IT requirements at work, I've been using SSH for several years, but for my personal project I've been using basic ...
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Which email to sign commits with for GitHub and retain privacy?
I have my GitHub account set to keep my personal email address private. The only place my personal email address is used at GitHub is to email me notifications.
This means that an address of the form &...
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Github lets me commit as another user
I'm learning how to use Git, and I've noticed that there's no control over the user.name and user.email when commiting. For example, I'm inside my repository. I can change my local config,
$ git ...
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Can I submit commits to someone else's pull request in my repository?
Someone has issued a pull request into my code, and I have a few changes I'd like to make rather than rejecting the request or waiting for them to make them.
I have no idea what the etiquette is, but ...
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Unable to open github.com Error code: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit with a wired connection. For the last 7 days, I have been unable to open Github. It instead has an error.
Is there anything wrong with my connection / hardware / ...
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