Questions tagged [git]
Git is an open source distributed version control system originally designed and written by Linus Torvalds. It is generally used to keep track of source code for software projects. As a DVCS, Git provides powerful help with branching, merging, and distributed development.
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Using sed to edit filepath variable
I am trying to use the sed command to edit a value in the .git/config file. When running the remote origin command, the config file creates the line of text like this":
url = https://github.com/...
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Excel PowerQuery locking source file for Git
I am using PowerQuery in Excel to load a CSV config file.
= Csv.Document(File.Contents("myFile.csv"),[Delimiter=",", Columns=4, Encoding=1252, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.None])
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Dealing with whitespaces in file names after git grep -l
I'm trying to run the script below and I'm struggling with pathspec error when the filename has whitespaces.
I have already read some other posts around here, but since I am not an expert I was not ...
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How to git clone a public repository through firewall?
I am trying to install a scientific software package on a HPC cluster. Let's call it clusterhpc. During the configuration process software package tries to clone a bunch of public git repos. However, ...
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Required git filter without smudge causes "smudge filter failed" error on unrelated(?) operations
(related question for context; tested with git version 2.30.2 on Debian 11)
I have written a git custom diff and filter normalising my .po files to make them diff-able by git diff and by GitLab Merge ...
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How to inline complex grep call into git config
I have, following this answer, created an executable file "podiff" for use as a custom diff (and later, hopefully, a filter) calling grep in this way:
grep -Ev '^#:|^"POT-Creation-Date|^...
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Notepad++ mode for git commit messages
I want to use Notepad++ to help formatting git commit messages.
NOTE: this is NOT a question about setting up git to open Notepad++ as its editor, I know about git config. This is NOT about running ...
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Posh-Git PowerShell Module for Standard User in Windows 11
I can install posh-git just fine when running PowerShell 7 as an Administrator and Import-Module posh-git works fine and my git branch is highlighted just fine.
However if I open the PowerShell 7 or ...
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How to download the git folder from Azure DevOps using powershell
I was trying to download the folder from a GIT based repository in Azure DevOps. I was able to download it through the below script.
$token = "PAT"
$url="https://dev.azure.com/{ORG}/{...
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My git history all of my commits have no message
this happened today last few hours, have not updated git, but all of my git commits have no message I do a commit
git commit -m "fixed the headline level"
and when I do git log I see
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How to achieve a git pull from a CGNAT?
I imagine my scenario to be reasonably common, so I am wondering if there is a method to achieve it.
I perform development on my local machine, which is either connected to the internet over my home ...
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What causes broken Git references?
Just helped a friend debug a "broken git reference." Fixing was easy enough update-ref -d or rm -r .git/refs/..., but I still don't understand what causes this in the first place.
I have a ...
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How can I move location or setup user special folders for multiple windows installations but the same user on a single machine?
How can I move or otherwise link Windows user special folders (Documents, Downloads, etc) such that multiple Windows installations on the same machine can share them seamslessly for all programs and ...
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Removing /usr/bin/git
While downloading RStudio, I accidentally agreed to download Git too (macOS Sonoma 14.4.1). Its location via the terminal:
which git
/usr/bin/git
git --version
git version 2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)
I am ...
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How do I clone from local git repositories with ssh?
The final goal is to host a remote repo on my pc that support pushing and pulling.
From the official doc given by git help clone, the host url format should be
git clone ssh://user@localhost:/C:/path/...
