Git is a distributed source control system.
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Git over SSH: Setting a base path?
I have Git running over SSH ON CentOS 6.4. The user name that Git is running as is git and the home directory is /home/git. My Git repositories live in /srv/git. When I clone a repository, I have to ...
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Speeding up permission changes on git post-update hook
A month ago, based my question Git prime/hub website deployment: documentroot changes save fine but permission denied for subdirectories, I received some great help from dawud for setting up a ...
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Gitweb Auth using Apache on Freebsd [closed]
I'm having trouble trying to set up gitweb so that a private project repository may be accessed through the browser, requiring a simple user/pass for the process.
My vhost conf is as follows
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Understanding branches in git [closed]
I just created a branch of my master.
*master
testing
I switched over to the branch with 'git checkout testing'
master
*testing
I've added directories and files to the testing branch.
I did a:
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Making copies of existing git repositories [closed]
I'm a developer that did a 'git clone' of a repository that is now sitting on my local machine. What I would like to do is make a copy of the repository, rename it, and make the renamed repository the ...
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Why is there no git repository after installing etckeeper?
I installed etckeeper on my ubuntu 11.10 server, and after creating the etckeeper repository with:
etckeeper init
etckeeper commit "Initial version"
I got the error:
bzr: ERROR: No changes to ...
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What is the best way to backup and restore gitlab?
What is the best way to backup and restore gitlab incuding all repositories, commit comments, wall comments, wiki etc.
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Detaching part of a git repository into a local one [closed]
We have a shared git repository, and a "tools" subdirectory in it where I versioned some software. I'd like to take the contents of that directory out of that repository and into a local one, keeping ...
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Puppet include/require a puppet lab's module
How do you create a puppet manifest that 'uses' one of the modules on the puppet forge?
class foo {
include puppetlabs-git (<- this doesn't work)
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Why do I keep getting bad index files with Git [closed]
I keep getting the following error:
error: bad index file sha1 signature
fatal: index file corrupt
And I know the short term solution is just to delete the index and away you go but my question is, ...
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Using Git as a means to sync zabbix instances
So in our environment, we are using a custom build of Zabbix as a monitoring solution. We have Zabbix deployed to four different sites, and would like to ensure that the build is consistent across all ...
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How to drop old commits in git
Sometimes bad people push file in a SCM that have nothing to do here:
Test reports
Compiled file
Other SCM file
Cache
So git repositories (works also with SVN) can become fat, very fat. How can we ...
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Achieving nice short urls for git repos [closed]
I am hosting git repositories on a server (Ubuntu). My preferred protocol is ssh, and my preferred authentication is system users using ssh. My reasons for this are because it keeps just one list of ...
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Executing cURL upon Git Push
I'm very new to running a Git server, and I needed to trigger a Jenkins build upon pushing to Git.
A tutorial says to do this command:
curl http://[jenkins]/git/notifyCommit?url=[job]
but it ...
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Setup git on an Internal Server [Ubuntu]
I'm new to Ubuntu.
I've been following this Setting Up the Server to config git on a Ubuntu machine (MyUbuntu).
I created a Git account and my authorized_key is in /Home/git/.ssh
ssh-rsa
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2answers
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Use version control for a live website [closed]
I have a live website hosted in a linux shared godaddy account. I want to start using Version Control. I also have a easyPHP localhost in my windows, where I do my development and testing. I am ...
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Can't push to Git remote on my CentOS server: /usr/bin/git-receive-pack: No such file or directory
I'm trying to set up Git deployment to my CentOS 6.4 server on DigitalOcean. Here's my git config on my dev machine:
[remote "live"]
url = [my url]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/live/*
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TeamCity: 'git fetch' command failed. stderr: Socket Closed
We have been working for years with TeamCity and for several weeks with git as version control system.
I have set up integration with TeamCity and that has been working fine.
We have four different ...
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SSH tunnel to allow ssh traffic: connection always refused
I have access to two servers at work. Server A hosts git repositories and is externally visible. I would like to be able to clone a repository into Server B which is hosted on Server A.
Currently, I ...
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Is it possible Cloneing git over SSH with full path to the repo?
I use satis to generate my private list of packages for composer. Unfortunately, satis refuses to accept ssh://user@myserv.com:port/MyRepoName.git syntax. The only syntax it accepts is ...
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github push -> redmine issue duplicate comments
I've successfully connected github to redmine and whenever someone puts an issue reference in a commit message and pushes it to github, a comment is added to the redmine issue referring back to the ...
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Managing patches to configuration files
I use a configuration management system and, as I believe is common, my CM software simply copy-pastes configuration files to deploy them to my Linux servers, blindly clobbering whatever's there. But ...
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Git prime/hub website deployment: documentroot changes save fine but permission denied for subdirectories
Following the instructions in A web-focused Git workflow I set up a prime and hub repository on my web server and then cloned the hub to my machine at home.
I started testing commits and pushes with ...
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2answers
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List linux users
I need to find a group in linux that doesn't appear in my /etc/groups file.
I run the following command and get an error
sudo adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'GitLab' git
adduser: The group `git' ...
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Structure for Version Control system - configuration and scripts
We are planning to introduce version control for our servers team so we can keep our config files and code neat.
The server base are mostly Windows with some Linux and spread across several ...
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untracked files 'git status -s' output changes ?? into rc when run in a subshell [closed]
I'm looking to get a single line listing of all the unchecked-in changes from a git repository (in this case, /etc being managed by etckeeper/git).
git status -s produces a nice short list of ...
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git-http-backend, ro for all, write requiring password? (with lighttpd)
I'd like to offer up read-only access to my GIT repos for everyone (i.e. no username/password required), but require authentication for writing. The git-http-backend man page suggests this is ...
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1answer
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Which Git web interface supports bare repositories [closed]
In general, question is specified in the header.
I'm viewing some from this link: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#Web_Interfaces . Which of them supports bare repos? ...
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Automate git-pull, stuck with keychain
I'd like to create a cronjob to automatically run a git-pull every minute.
The problem is that my repo is private, I had to create keys on my system (Ubuntu Server 12.04). I installed keychain and ...
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etckeeper pushing to github
I set up etckeeper and added the file /etc/etckeeper/commit.d/60github-push in order to push the commit to github.
[orschiro@thinkpad etc]$ sudo cat /etc/etckeeper/commit.d/60github-push
#!/bin/sh
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User info from credentials [closed]
Is it possible in a shared repository via git-http-backend/Apache/Ldap to have the commiter info set from the ldap authentification and not from what the user set up locally via the user.email and ...
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How to setup Git Linux server for Windows domain clients via SSH?
Is this combination possible?
Server: Git on Linux
Clients: Windows
Authentication: Windows domain credentials
Transport protocol: SSH
If yes how would this be accomplished?
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Git clone from Windows to Windows cannot find the repository
git clone gituser@<server>:myRepo.git doesn't work, fails with the error message:
fatal: ''myRepo.git'' does not appear to be a git repository
Background:
We have a Windows 7 machine set up ...
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How can I configure git to reject large files?
For the 3rd time a developer committed a large file in our git repository (over 100MB). It's really a pain to cleanup. How can I configure git and/or gitolite to prevent large files from ever being ...
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Trying to clone a bare git repo: Could not read from remote repository
I set up a git user on my Mac OS 10.7 system. In the root, there's a /repositories/test.git repo. When trying to clone it with git clone git@server:repositories/test.git it fails me with:
bash: ...
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give users permission to host on my server using git [closed]
I want to let untrusted users get permission to deploy static html pages to a sand boxed environment on my server. Each "sandbox" have a limited size (0.25GB). Me as an administrator need to be able ...
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Git 1.8.2 source (from master branch) fails to build, can't find “dl” library symbols [closed]
# Compiling git 1.8.2 source from master branch sources.
$ make configure
$ LIBS="-ldl" LDFLAGS="-L/sandbox/builds/lib -L/sandbox/builds/ssl" CPPFLAGS="-I/sandbox/builds/include ...
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sudoers nopasswd switch user and run node not working
I'm trying to prevent a password prompt on a command that runs node as the www user by adding the following line to the bottom of my /etc/sudoers file:
gituser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/sudo -u ...
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How do I install/configure/operate a Git Server on Server Core 2012 [closed]
Basically the title is my question but if you could direct me to some articles or other sources on how to install and configure it then it would be highly appreciated.
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Git clone works fine but git push doesn't
I have created a test git repo on Git server:
/var/cache/git/username/myGitRepo.git
Which is a 'bare' git repo. The ownership of the files belong to this 'username' user. I can clone the above Git ...
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1answer
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git push origin master result : REJECTED_OTHER_REASON
I've made a personal repository on my server.
I can clone it.
I've get errors on push
refusing update ....
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'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'.
...
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git clone from iMac to MacBook Pro error
When cloning a git repository via ssh I get the following error:
git clone ssh://user@iMacHost.local/Users/home/git/projects/Stock.git
Cloning into 'Stock'...
hdiutil: attach failed - No such file or ...
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Why all git heads are not shown on gitweb?
When I running following command, its showing me three git branches
me@myhost:~/myrepo$ git branch
* master
new_branch
third
However the gitweb is showing only two branches. Only master and ...
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Alternative to Samba with AMP stack
I am currently setting up a server on my network for web development work and was wondering if there is any better way of doing what I intend to do.
My work machine is a Windows 7 desktop and I am ...
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Revision control of sensitive configuration files
Consider a file with user-read-only permissions, for example ...
-r--------+ admin secrets.txt
How can such a file be put under revision control, so that its contents remain secret, even from the ...
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Git, plink, and cmd.exe: how do I set plink.exe to be verbose when used as GIT_SSH
How can I configure plink.exe to be verbose when run by git?
The problem: on windows, using the command git.cmd clone git+ssh://user@host/repo folder when GIT_SSH=plink.exe intermittently fails ...
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SSH to bitbucket returing Permission Denied (publickey)
So I am trying to clone a repo to a directory on my Ubuntu server but I keep getting a Permission Denied (publickey) error.
This is very weird because my output for ssh -T git@bitbucket.org shows ...
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how to make git smart http transport work on nginx?
I've tried this in many different ways. Here is probably the best configuration I've managed to come up with.
nginx:
server {
server_name git.x-yuri.pp.ua;
access_log ...
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Kerberos authentication for Git server?
I have a Git server, and I want to make it usable by all Kerberos-logged users.
eg: if a user has a valid Kerberos ticket, she can start pushing to Git without having to provide any ...
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GIT SVN with subgit and apache
I've started evaluating a piece of software called subgit which seamlessly allows you to interface a repo with either SVN or GIT.
Throughout our organization we interface our repos using apache, and ...
