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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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GIT issue in AIX 6.1

I recently installed GIT 1.8.1 on my AIX 6.1 machine and am facing a few issues with it. Now if I login as root and issue git commands like git --version I get the response as shown : Code: git ...
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How to identify and remove ?, ^A, or \001 file on Mac OS X? [closed]

I have a file of unknown origin on Mac OS X that appears as ^A or \001 or ? (question mark) depending on whether I'm looking at the output of ls or git: (.env)Davids-MacBook-Pro:scripts watson$ ls ? ...
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Gitolite SSH URL Format

So I got gitolite set up. Simple. But there is one issue I am having. The SSH urls follow the format of git@host:repo. I'm used to Bitbucket / Github where the urls follow the format of ...
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Can a very large /etc/hosts.deny slow down SSH connections?

I've been using denyhosts for a while and I noticed my /etc/hosts.deny is getting rather large. Denyhosts adds IPs to /etc/hosts.deny, and my denyhosts is configured to never purge IPs. $ wc -l ...
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How to set up a public Git repository in Unix

I've set up a number of private repos where I commit via SSH but I'm having problems setting up a public one. Here's what I've done so far: Log into my server via ssh $ cd public_html/repos/ $ mkdir ...
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VCS System that preserves Unix file permissions?

I'm looking for a simple revision control system for server configs. Something like works like git, but preserves Unix file permissions. And is NOT RCS. Any tips? Thanks!
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Via ssh, git-checkout into directory the user doesn't own: “Permission denied”

Using git push server I push to a remote bare git-repository via ssh. The git-repository on the server has a post-receive hook which runs git checkout -f in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/preview (working ...
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Which platform for Trac with SVN or GIT? [closed]

I currently have a redundant machine running a version of Mitel SME Server V5 which I've never used before. In fact I have no previous experience with any flavour of unix but would like to get some. ...
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Git - post-receive hook with git pull “Failed to find a valid git directory”

It's very weird but when setting a git repository and creating a post-receive hook with: echo "--initializing hook--" cd ~/websites/testing echo "--prepare update--" git pull echo "--update ...
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setting up repositories for users, what does this entail?

Say I wanted to setup a server, where I could create GIT repositories for users. I would only give them access via SSH. I would need to restrict them to say 100megs or 1 gig etc. Is this a ...