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Setting up SVN server on Windows 7

Short My OS is: Windows 7 Ultimate and IDE is Netbeans. Want to work with 2-3 devs on PHP projects. After research I found that it's possible with GIT. Found this solution. But it's installing apache ...
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how to make chained ssh work with git

I am trying to get round a silly firewall issue. I am trying to chain ssh access to git through a proxy ssh: ~/git-chain: #!/bin/bash ssh hosticangetto ssh $* # End And then: $ export ...
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Adding capabilities to Thecus N5200 NAS (specifically, git)

I know that you can install system and user modules on Thecus NAS units to expand their capabilities. I have already installed SYSUSER and SSHD so that I can now SSH into the box. I haven't had much ...
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Setting up GIT on CentOS server

I'm trying to set up GIT on my home CentOS 6.2 server (I already have LAMP running on it). The only access that will be made to it is from the local network - or to be more precise, from my laptop ...
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Capistrano deployment to a VPS failing

I'm using Capistrano to deploy a Ruby on Rails app to a VPS running Ubuntu 11.10. However, whenever I run cap:deploy i get this error: cd: 1: can't cd to /var/www/appname/releases The VPS I'm using ...
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GIT push command is very slow on CentOS, Apache

I created GIT server on my CentOS with Apache. (push/pull are go trough http and Apache) I followed those instructions: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2009/05/06/8-ways-to-share-your-git-repository/ Push ...
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SSH/Git: Specify paths with hostname instead of IP

Alright, quick question. When SSHing to a server using the IP, I can also specify a path to use, such as: git clone ssh://git@127.0.0.1:/home/git/project.git SomeProject However, when using a ...
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trying to install gitolite on a debian 6 squeeze server

Hey guys i am trying to get gitolite working on my Debian 6 web server. I must have tried 5 times already over the last few days and am still unable to connect to this git repository using gity (a ...
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What is the Difference between svn and git [closed]

What are the pros and cons of git and svn. We are suppose to use a subversion systems. Any body have a idea. Thanks in advance.
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Browse git repository over Webdav (debian)

I would like to be able to browse a (bare) git repository over Webdav. Note that I do not want to be able to push/pull over Webdav. Instead, I actually want to be able to browse through my files via ...
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Create link with right owner / group

I have a git-daemon accessed through ssh. All repositories are in /srv/git. I have some other projects saved on a exfat disk, so I want to create a symbolic link from that disk to /srv/git. For ...
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Ubuntu — git checkout — file permissions issue

Here's the low down: Server Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit Git version 1.7.1 I'm running gitolite on this server and I have things setup on this front just fine. I'm able to clone and push to the repo no ...
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Git config user.email is not recognized when pushing with --tags

We have a GitHub repository, all pull/push works fine until a point. When we issue this command, which commits the tags: git push -–tags origin master the email address that goes further to the ...
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Managing multiple users for multiple sites in Ubuntu

For managing sites on my web server, I create a new user per site. They get a home directory where their public folder is located. From time to time I may be logging in as a site and would like to ...
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Remote git repositories

I really love git and now I have setup an remote repositorie. Thats pretty cool but I cant find the plain data like. My Idea was: local development > commit, commit, commit and if ready for the ...
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Is it safe to use Bitbucket as a remote for an /etc Git repo?

I'm worried about SSH private keys and such. I'm not quite sure what else is a security hazard but I'm sure there are many config files which should probably not be uploaded to a third-party website. ...
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svn:external in git [migrated]

A little background: I have a project that used to be in an SVN repository, that had an svn:external folder from outside of the project tree. This external folder is very essential and is required ...
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Git/LDAP Accounts/Gitolite

I have relatively little knowledge about what exactly LDAP is and how it works except that I know I can use my LDAP account username/password to log into multiple linux servers. Right now we are ...
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Separate git accounts on linux server

I have a lot of git repositories on my linux (ubuntu) server. I access all of them with the Apache user www-data. This worked great in the past because I was the only web developer. Now I have ...
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Getting error installing Git on centos server

I am trying to install git on centos 5.5 and i am getting this error: git-email-1.7.7.3-1.w5.x86_64 from webtatic has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SMTP::SSL) is needed ...
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Problems with umlauts and git-svn

I've got the following problem: I checked out an GIT-repository created by tortoise-git under windows. German umlauts like "öäü" are shown as \x-Codes under my linux. That's basically no problem ...
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Accessing git repo remotely (server setup)

I have a git repository in my ubuntu server, which I like to access from my macbook. I enabled ssh to ubuntu from my mac. Can somebody give how can I setup git so that I can work fron both system. My ...
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How do I configure a private remote git repository in a dedicated server?

I started using git very recently and still havent setup a remote repository before, so I am totally lost. This is my setup: I have a repository in my local machine, which I want to publish in our ...
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Which is better for website backup - rsync or git push

I run 2 LAMP web servers at different providers for disaster recovery purposes - a high powered live server, and a low powered backup server. Currently I rsync all the data from the live server to ...
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Git distributed workflow

We have a "central" git repo containing all sorts of conf files. We have 5 servers that have the repo cloned. I've cloned the repo on my local machine. I want to be able to make changes locally, ...
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Deploying git repo on production server without account password

What I would like to do How can I clone a git repository on my production server, without providing the account's password, and passphrase for the SSH key? Perhaps what I'm asking is not possible. ...
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Permissions per git repository?

I have set up a git server in windows using the apache http mod. Users come in through apache using their ldap credentials. This works great except all users have access to pull/push all ...
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git push over smart HTTP fails with 403

This has been driving me nuts. I'm running git 1.7.8.rc4 with Apache/2.2.14 on Lucid Ubuntu, and set up LDAP authentication. The authentication seems to be working fine, and i can pull, but i can't ...
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GIT as a backup tool (am I a silly person?)

So I was in the shower this morning thinking about stuff, and I had an idea which may be terrible or may be brilliant I'm not sure. On a server, install git cd / git init git add . git commit -a -m ...
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Permission error with git on linux with bare shared repo

I've got a bare central repo that has this option turned on: git config core.sharedRepository true For some reason, the other users on this CentOS machine that pulls/pushes from the central repo ...
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etckeeper implementation in subversion (SVN)

How to setup etckeeper in subversion (SVN).I get to know that etckeeper works with git , mercurial (hg) etc, but it doesn't works with subversion. I am stuck with this etckeeper implementation in ...
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Permissions in a multiuser Linux environment

This question has been asked many times, but I haven't found a solution for this type of permission. I have a VPS with multiple websites in chroot, each one running with a unique user, without root ...
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Can't install GIT on a CentOS 6.0 x64

I'm trying to install GIT by either RPM or YUM but i can't. I get the following error: error: Failed dependencies: libcrypto.so.10 is needed by git-1.7.1-2.el6.i686 libcurl.so.4 is ...
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Does ‘git push’ create a new SSH session?

I've set up a new EC2 instance with Heroku-like deploy. I followed this article cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-ec2/. My problem is... If I push to the server several times, CPU ...
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AuthzSVNAccessFile for git-http-backend?

I want to host some git-Repositories. Is it possible to setup them like SVN-Repos with a central ACL-File? (Have a look at AuthzSVNAccessFile-Directive for example) Thanks, Philipp
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I need to run a script to pull repo. from github without asking me a password

I just got a new server for my website, and I'm trying to create a trunk in a folder where i can pull data from github. That way I can easily get the latest version of the website, and copy the needed ...
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Error pushing to remote with git

I have a fresh Centos 6 server stood up and I have installed git version 1.7.1 through yum. I am using the smart http method through apache for access. When I try to push to the remote server this ...
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Howto Nginx + git-http-backend + fcgiwrap (Debian Squeeze)

I am trying to setup git-http-backend with Nginx but after 24 hours wasting time and reading everything I could I think this config should work but doesn't. server { listen 80; server_name ...
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Managing nginx configurations

My goal is to be able to update my server configurations (eg, nginx) quickly and easily using version control (eg, git). One requirement I had in mind was to have the configurations stored inside the ...
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Install gitolite without needing public key(s)?

All of our developers run Windows workstations. We run a Linux development server. I've been wanting to try out running our own git server on the dev server. After some research I've settled on ...
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Git: push via ssh to a root owned repository with ssh root logins disabled

is that even possible? Summary, i'm running puppet master on a server and ideally we want root logins via ssh disabled, we want to force all access via sudo if root access required however we have ...
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Is there a way to configure the Gitolite repositories path in gitolite.conf?

In Gitosis, I can modify the path to the repositories directory by adding the following to gitosis.conf: [gitosis] repositories = /path/to/repositories Is there a way to do the same thing in ...
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Checking out repository based on loaded SSH keys

I have setup my git server using Gitosis. I need to checkout the repository as different user on the same machine. Suppose there are two machines: Linux based server (on which the repo is held ...
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Cygwin/Git error cygheap base mismatch detected

I have installed two windows servers with the latest versions of cygwin and git, and am trying to clone the git repository from S1, to S2. I can successfully ssh from S2 to S1 using RSA keys, but when ...
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git http-backend show info when accessing per browser

I'm currently hosting my own git-repos for my private projects. For this, I use Apache and the standard git http-backend. Now, a repo can be accessed under an URL like this: ...
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Is it an unsafe practice to symlink /etc conf files?

To manage the configuration of a server, I keep some configuration flies (located in /etc) under version control (in the home folder) and then symlink to them from their /etc locations: ...
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Why am I unable to download git repository on git hub?

I must have done this a dozen times. I follow the instructions at http://help.github.com/mac-set-up-git/ Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly ...
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GIT fetch remote: SSH timed out on port 22 (Ubuntu)

I've got an Oracle VM VirtualBox running Ubuntu 9.10, and also a pysical DELL server running Ubuntu 9.10 I can use putty to connect to both the VM and the DELL. From either I can ssh into the other, ...
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Sudo Error “ you must have a tty to run sudo”

I am trying to run the following command: sudo git pull; I get the following error: Command failed: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo The command is being run from a nodejs server ...
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CA cert error when setting up git submodules on PPC Mac 10.5.8

I have a git repository with submodules on github, when I try and set up the submodules locally by doing: git submodule init git submodule update I get this error: error: SSL certificate problem, ...

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