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Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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I have a problem with SSH key usage for GIT on windows. It works fine from windows GUI git clients. From the terminal - git-bash / mingw32 - it fails with $ git pull git@<gitserver redacted>: ...
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b2 command line tool, version 4.3.3 6.16.3-arch1-1 The old --exclude-regex is removed, and the .b2_ignore file is ignored. I want to sync my directory to my b2 bucket but don't want to sync the git ...
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To reproduce: Create two commits with the same commit message subject (that is, the first line of the commit message). Let's say the first commit gets commit ID "a", and the second one gets ...
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We are using podman's containers for the project. The issue, we have is what while working on different branches of the project we need slightly different containers. So each git branch has its own ...
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I'm currently part of a migration from GitLab to Azure DevOps. As part of that I wrote a little bash script that iterates over the migrated git repos and for each performs a clone from both gitlab and ...
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I need your help! I'm trying to install pgAdmin4 desktop version on my Arch system. I am getting libfakeroot internal error: payload not recognized! while building package for pgadmin4-server(which is ...
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I need to filter commits based on directory changes, for example I need to get a list of commits only if the commit made a change in a certain directory. I have tried the path filter glob option ...
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I frequently need to log into a VM that has no direct access to the internet or our source code repo. In the past I have circumvented this with a reverse port forward over ssh but now my problem is ...
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I need to extract multiple words from git log. I need the commit id and ticket number for each commit, I then need to run this through a loop and do some further processing for each commit. commit ...
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I'm using a git post-receive hook to perform some actions after a git push to a remote server. This remote operates over SSH: $ git remote -v server user@server:repo.git The problem is that ...
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I wanted to put the current git hash in my prompt; but my initial approach was kind of laggy: psvar[1]="$(git log -n1 --pretty='format: %h' 2>/dev/null)" (with $PROMPT including %1v to ...
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It may be a vague question, but I can't currently find a good solution in my head. I have a BookStack application running on a company server. To simplify and for security I have a custom .gitignore ...
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I want to compare 6.1(which is main) and my branch git diff [6.1...] -- [/MM-pizdmr-are-up-to-date] fatal: bad revision '[6.1...]' I tried Github UI ,but it take too much time and suggested git diff ...
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when I run this command in Visual Studio Code in macOS 13.3.1, shows: ➜ texhub-web git:(main) git pull origin main fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/RedDwarfTech/texhub-web.git/': LibreSSL ...
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I have created a patch for the Linux kernel. It can be found at the following website: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/bluetooth/patch/[email protected]/ Unfortunately, I ...
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I added this step to CI check_if_there_is_change: - run: name: Check that no git-tracked files were modified command: | FILES_MODIFIED="$(git status --...
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I've set up a FreeBSD 14.1 server with sources and ports tree. Then, after some port and package installations, I've tried to update the ports tree, in which purpose set up git and did git init in /...
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For a while now one specific user on my fedora 40 machine fails to clone any git repo at all with this error: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate Since the root user was ...
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Background: It was years ago since I reinstalled my Linux Mint, now having couple months new installation of Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon, so I do not know if my question is specific to VS Codium which is ...
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I've asked the question on SO before, but maybe it is better placed here. I'm running on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (X11) and have p4merge installed in version p4v-2024.3.2656785. I'm using p4merge since ...
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I am trying to use curl (v8.6.0) to send the HTTP request to sever side under Windows git bash terminal. The server side is a Java spring boot application. When the curl JSON content contains Chinese ...
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I am new to vim and have difficulty setting it up. I am working with a FRR code in which the tab is 8 spaces. I want to see 4 spaces instead of 8 and have added the following settings [options.lua]: ...
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In my .zshrc file I have written a function based on git log: lg() { git log \ --abbrev=12 \ --graph \ --oneline \ --color=always \ --format="%C(cyan)%h %C(blue)%ar %C(...
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I have followed the usual step of creating ssh keys adding the public ones to the provider(Github/Bitbucket etc). But for some reason this time I have to run ssh-add ~/.ssh/ each time I start my ...
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This is a bit of a newbie question but I'm only starting out my journey with dotfiles! Suppose I have a fresh machine and I want to sync my existing dotfiles/settings from some repo. A dotfile may or ...
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I have this alias: git config --global alias.all '!f() { ls -R -d */.git | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo {} && git -C {}/../ $1"; }; f' It currently works fine when I run it like : git ...
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I have a git branch and I'd like to show how much of its changes are due to tests vs. implementation. I can run: git diff master..my-branch --dirstat and I get something like: 22.2% app/foo/abc/ ...
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Cross-posting from here as suggested by the community. A bit of context: At my company we do tunneling to ssh into EC2 boxes. This tunneling command is as usual, uses ForwardAgent and the proxycommand ...
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I am trying to set up a GIT server in my LAN & use it with my Android phone through Termux. My PC runs Fedora Silverblue 40. Some tracelogs: On my PC (all as user git): $> ip addr show wlp5s0 ...
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This is clearly one of those "I've missed the basic principle" type issues. Luckily since everything is now "on the web" I can be very specific and not need to say "for ...
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I'm trying to maintain an install script for Tryton ERP at Tryton community. I'd find it useful to have a version number in the file name; to manage this, when committing I'd like to have a prompt to ...
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I would like to use the code stored in an external git repository (I mean I am not a contributor for this code, I cannot push or create branches) but of course I need to change some files before ...
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I have a project with multi repo, when I commit with one of them, I just want to make sure each of the repo are newest, because the repo have some dependencies, I want to fetch all repo changes and ...
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I am using git on Ubunto with bash shell, and a tab-completion using bind '"\t":menu-complete' in my .bashrc file. When I do git diff X, tab-completion starts cycling with matching git tags, ...
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I see that it takes a --format argument: --format <format> A string that interpolates %(fieldname) from a branch ref being shown and the object it points at. The format is the ...
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Long story short I have an SSH key pair that I am copying to a new machine from a shared drive whenever the machine starts but when I load in the keys I keep getting an error. There is no difference ...
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I am looking for a formatter to use with my git commits. par pretty much does what I want, with the (important) limitation that I can't get it to properly format bullet lists, which are pretty common ...
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I have my computer language set to en_GB with fr_FR as backup only for spellcheck and money/measurement formatting purposes. CLI apps work fine like that except git, who insist on using the first non ...
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I have configured git diff to be a command that calls substitute diff for viewing file differences i.e /usr/bin/vim -dR "$2" "$3" and that doesn't work when I want to create a ...
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Referring to this https://stackoverflow.com/a/31356602, I wrote this code: #!/bin/bash # Define the two strings to compare string1="First string with some random text." string2="Second ...
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I have directory structure like this $ tree . . ├── Chart.yaml ├── datafiles │   ├── index.html │   ├── style.css │   ├── exclude.txt │   └── text │   ├── file1.txt │   ├── file2.txt I want ...
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I want to create a bash function where you can do a sed find and replace while ignoring the files and folders in .gitignore. I also want to be able to add any git grep flags to the command. For ...
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When I used to run git diff requirements.txt for the longest time it would show me the difference between the value of requirements.txt in my local git vs. master branch. But now when I run it, I get: ...
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I've run into a very strange problem where Git says it start can't my editor, even though it definitely exists and works: $ git config --global core.editor /usr/bin/nano $ git rebase -i main hint: ...
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Git LFS doesn't work anymore with Yocto: git doesn't fetch "large files" since we upgraded our tools to these versions: Yocto kirkstone gitlab 16.7.3 and gitlab 16.8 git version 2.34.1 git-...
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I'm using yocto to build my custom Linux distribution. I need to add hiredis to my distribution. hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database, and I need it to access Redis by a C ...
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I have two GitHub accounts. One for personal use, and another for business. Each is set up with its own SSH key gh_personal and gh_business inside ~/.ssh. I have a personal project that sits in ~/code/...
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git fetch --all --no-tags doesn't do what it says on the tin, and keeps re-fetching tags every time I run it. How do I actually fetch from all remotes without fetching tags? To reproduce: Fork this ...
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There's a lot of setup for this question: I've got a host (rpi5.local) with 2 user accounts: pi and cake. I wanted to explore git, and I created the cake account to "own" the "server/...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS When I do a git push REMOTE after a reboot, after a few seconds it comes up with a dialog box: +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Please enter the ...
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