Highest scored 'git' questions

560 votes

33 answers

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How do I tell Git for Windows where to find my private RSA key?

My Git setup runs fine on Linux, but when I try to set things up under Windows (using Git for Windows and TortoiseGit), I don't know where to put my private SSH key (or, better still, how to tell ssh ...

binaryorganic

6,071

asked Oct 25, 2010 at 16:45

245 votes

10 answers

167k views

How to tell which local branch is tracking which remote branch in Git?

I would like to know if there's a way to tell which local branch is tracking which remote branch in Git. I'm using one remote server, which is named "origin".

PJ.

3,037

asked Aug 27, 2010 at 1:04

241 votes

10 answers

308k views

How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?

I have a Git repository on a staging server which multiple developers need to be able to pull to. git-init seems to have a flag very close to what I'm looking for: --shared, except I'd like multiple ...

Andrey Fedorov

2,139

asked Jun 17, 2009 at 1:04

205 votes

6 answers

196k views

Non interactive git clone (ssh fingerprint prompt) [duplicate]

I want to clone a repo in a non-interactive way. When cloning, git asks to confirm host's fingerprint: The authenticity of host 'bitbucket.org (207.223.240.182)' can't be established. RSA key ...

qwe

2,097

asked Nov 9, 2012 at 9:04

122 votes

17 answers

82k views

GIT as a backup tool

On a server, install git cd / git init git add . git commit -a -m "Yes, this is server" Then get /.git/ to point to a network drive (SAN, NFS, Samba whatever) or different disk. Use a cron job every ...

user80776

asked Dec 15, 2011 at 12:10

119 votes

4 answers

221k views

What firewall ports need to be open to allow access to external git repositories?

What firewall port(s) need to be open to allow access to external git repositories?

markdorison

1,325

asked Oct 8, 2010 at 14:43

113 votes

12 answers

85k views

How do I prevent apache from serving the .git directory?

I have started using git for deployment of websites for testing. How do I prevent apache from serving the .git directory contents? I tried <Directorymatch "^/.*/\.svn/"> Order deny,allow Deny ...

Shoan

1,755

asked Mar 31, 2010 at 12:11

108 votes

7 answers

85k views

How to retrieve the last modification date of all files in a Git repository

I know how to retrieve the last modification date of a single file in a Git repository: git log -1 --format="%ad" -- path/to/file Is there a simple and efficient way to do the same for all ...

user65570

asked Jun 22, 2012 at 19:41

78 votes

4 answers

49k views

How do I edit git's history to correct an incorrect email address/name [closed]

When I started using git I just did a git init and started calling add and commit. Now I am starting to pay attention and I can see that my commits are showing up as cowens@localmachine, rather than ...

Chas. Owens

2,113

asked May 26, 2009 at 20:56

78 votes

11 answers

64k views

Where's the conventional place to store git repositories in a linux file system tree?

If I make an analogy with the hosting of a web server, I would say that git's data should be in /var/git, so my git repository would be in /var/git/myrepo Q: Is that the right guess ?

Samuel Rossille

916

asked Sep 28, 2012 at 14:07

68 votes

13 answers

134k views

Install a newer version of Git on CentOS 7

I like to enable Git "Push to Deploy" on my CentOS 7 server. Currently I only can get Git 1.8.3.1 via yum. I need a newer version. Do I have to build it from source or is there any repo I can use? I ...

Oliver

791

asked Jul 29, 2015 at 15:54

66 votes

4 answers

245k views

git fetch specific revision from remote repository

We have a remote git repo that we normally deploy from using git push on our dev server then git pull on on our live servers to get the latest pushed version of the repo. But if we have committed and ...

dlrust

725

asked Feb 26, 2010 at 18:26

61 votes

6 answers

306k views

How to give username/password to git clone in a script, but not store credentials in .git/config

I am cloning a git repository in a script like this: git clone https://user:[email protected]/name/.git This works, but my username and my password! are now stored in the origin url in .git/config. ...

Nathan

743

asked Nov 15, 2016 at 15:35

47 votes

5 answers

135k views

Specify SSH Port for Git

I use a non-standard ssh port (1234) for most of the servers I connect to. So in my ssh config file I have: Port 1234 But github.com uses port 22. When I try to connect to github it obviously ...

James Ward

655

asked Jan 3, 2011 at 17:31

32 votes

6 answers

31k views

Using rsync from msysgit for binary files

I have three windows boxes that are connected to a linux box on my network in various ways (one's local to the network, one is a laptop and may or may not be local, and the other is my work desktop). ...

Will Gant

331

asked Sep 12, 2011 at 2:22

30 votes

5 answers

59k views

How to install git to red hat enterprise linux 5.3 x64?

How can I configure yum to use some repository which has git rpms?

BuyManAFish

423

asked Nov 4, 2009 at 15:44

28 votes

7 answers

43k views

git clone - fail instead of prompting for credentials

When cloning git repositories in automated tools - web front ends, CI systems, sometimes the git clone invocation opens up a prompt asking for the username and password (for example, when cloning a ...

Tin Tvrtković

383

asked Oct 6, 2013 at 18:33

28 votes

2 answers

24k views

What are the pros and cons of SSH and HTTP for a git server?

I want to setup a git server. I have found several how-to's, well detailed. Some describe the installation for a git-server accessible thru Ssh, while others, accessible thru HTTP. ( Others even ...

Stephane Rolland

449

asked Sep 19, 2012 at 22:10

27 votes

5 answers

49k views

Git shell not enabled?

I'm trying to install git server. When I set default shell for my git user to /usr/bin/git-shell I get an error upon login as git. fatal: Interactive git shell is not enabled. hint: ~/git-shell-...

Peter

405

asked Jun 29, 2011 at 14:43

25 votes

4 answers

56k views

Enabling nginx Chunked Transfer Encoding

It looks like nginx 0.8.35 may support chunked transfer encoding: Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI ...

rentzsch

395

asked Jul 11, 2010 at 6:08

25 votes

2 answers

22k views

How to uninstall git installed from the source? [closed]

I installed the git using this article. Now I want to uninstall the git. How to do it?

Mikhail

559

asked Nov 1, 2012 at 7:21

24 votes

3 answers

38k views

Putting RSA keys into azure key vault

How can I store my key pair (typically the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub) in azure key vault. I want to put the public key in my GIT service and allow a virtual machine to download the private key from Azure ...

MercilessMaverick

407

asked May 4, 2017 at 6:46

24 votes

2 answers

19k views

Use git commands with another path rather than the actual working dir

When using git add . uses the actual path where you're (incase is a git repo). How would I do for using git add, git commit and git push' outside of the working dir? Likegit add /Users/zad0xsis/my-git-...

pmerino

501

asked Oct 6, 2011 at 14:39

23 votes

12 answers

36k views

Setting Up Git Repository on Remote Windows Server?

I have a windows server which I can access locally or remotely over the internet through remote desktop connection, etc. I want to set up a git repository (something similar to "trunk" in subversion),...

Goober

361

asked Aug 25, 2009 at 14:03

22 votes

1 answer

19k views

Gitlab backup file location (Omnibus installation)

I have installed Gitlab using omnibus installation package. I took a backup using below command sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create Backup was successfully created. But I am not sure where to ...

shashwat

333

asked Dec 8, 2014 at 6:29

21 votes

6 answers

5k views

Putting a whole linux server under source control (git)

I am thinking about putting my whole linux server under version control using git. The reason behind it being that that might be the easiest way to detect malicious modifications/rootkits. All I would ...

Tobias Hertkorn

359

asked Mar 17, 2011 at 15:40

20 votes

3 answers

63k views

Git clone/pull across local network [closed]

I'm trying to clone/pull a repository in another PC using Ubuntu Quantal. I have done this on Windows before but I don't know what is the problem on ubuntu. I tried these: git clone file:////pc-name/...

Tomas Ramirez Sarduy

353

asked Jan 7, 2013 at 20:49

20 votes

5 answers

72k views

What does "master" mean in "git push origin master"

I'm new to git as a version control system. I tried reading the documentation, but I don't understand what "master" means in this command: git push origin master Can someone explain in very dumbed-...

learningtech

7,569

asked Apr 4, 2011 at 10:20

19 votes

6 answers

15k views

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 completed-...

zanona

345

asked Jan 29, 2010 at 16:44

19 votes

5 answers

80k views

Using GIT variables in a declarative Jenkins pipeline

I'm struggling to access GIT variables in my Jenkins pipeline I need to know what GIT branch it's been checked out inside some bash code in a stage of the pipeline. I will use this to create ...

ColOfAbRiX

1,100

asked Jan 24, 2019 at 17:48

19 votes

3 answers

43k views

How to setup Gitlab with post-receive hook?

I am using Gitlab on one server and would like to push my git repository on commit of the master branch to another webserver. So when I push a new version of the website the production server gets ...

tvb

341

asked Jan 6, 2013 at 14:52

18 votes

3 answers

8k views

How do I uninstall gitosis?

I've installed gitosis on my dramhost machine but now I want to uninstall it because it's causing more problems than solutions. The thing is that I can't find how to uninstall it. I deleted the ~/...

Oscar Del Ben

281

asked Dec 7, 2009 at 21:09

18 votes

2 answers

10k views

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 ...

David Laing

283

asked Dec 27, 2011 at 13:32

17 votes

5 answers

4k views

Git commit auditing

I have a git server running over ssh and each user has a unix account on the system. Given that two users have access to a repo, how can I be sure which user performed which commit, since the commit ...

yannisf

587

asked Nov 2, 2012 at 11:04

17 votes

3 answers

15k views

Use git for multiple server configuration files

We have migrated a lot of source code over to git and are very happy with our current solution. We would like to have our server configuration files versioned on the same system, but there are a few ...

Kariem

571

asked Mar 21, 2011 at 12:29

16 votes

4 answers

26k views

Create SSH user with limited privileges to only use Git repository

I have a git repository hosted on my SunOS server, that I remotely use through ssh git clone ssh://[email protected]/path/to/git Now I need to add more users to be able to access that repository, ...

Bach

343

asked Aug 13, 2010 at 3:54

16 votes

7 answers

30k views

Yum doesn't install latest version of Git on Centos6

When I go to Gits download section it mentions that latest version is 1.8 and I can install it by yum install git on Fedora. I'm running CentOS6 so that command should also work for me, but yum tells ...

Reza Sanaie

469

asked Nov 14, 2012 at 22:25

15 votes

6 answers

7k views

Correct user names when tracking /etc/ in git repository and committing as root

We use git to track changes in /etc/ on our servers. Administrators work as root when changing files in /etc/, and thus their commits have author root <root@machinename> This is not very ...

cweiske

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asked Apr 7, 2011 at 9:13

15 votes

3 answers

15k views

Setting up a git repo on my GoDaddy hosting plan

I have a project which is version-controlled using git. What I want to be able to do is set up a repo on my (ssh-enabled) GoDaddy shared hosting package so that I can deploy with a push rather than ...

Tom Wright

924

asked Jun 16, 2009 at 20:18

15 votes

1 answer

9k views

Automatically sign all commits with git [closed]

With git 1.7.9, it's possible to sign a commit with the -S option. Is it possible to set it default through git config --global? So instead of git commit -S -m 'Commit message', it would be just git ...

tamasd

253

asked Oct 1, 2012 at 12:23

15 votes

2 answers

17k views

Using LDAP as auth method for git repositories

I want to convince my boss that we should be using git for version control. He says, that it absolutely must authenticate users through our central LDAP server. I looked at the various solutions (...

Leonard Ehrenfried

381

asked Apr 16, 2010 at 13:39

14 votes

2 answers

7k views

GIT repository over LAN

I am trying to setup a GIT repository over LAN in Ubuntu OS. I am able to setup a GIT repository, but not sure HOW TO expose the repository to other users in LAN. As it requires a server, I installed ...

user20162

asked Sep 13, 2009 at 6:55

14 votes

2 answers

39k views

What "access rights" could be blocking access to a gitlab repository?

I'm trying to setup gitlab (6.5.1) on a fresh clean server. Everything appears to work, but git is unable to push to any project. Following the commands from the newly created project page and pushing ...

Caleb

12k

asked Feb 15, 2014 at 13:24

13 votes

2 answers

22k views

How do I make GitLab delete old backups?

I use the rake task to create backups for GitLab 6.8.2. gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create In /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb I added the following line: gitlab_rails['backup_keep_time'] = 60 This is supposed ...

Jan Deinhard

2,403

asked Jul 25, 2016 at 12:40

13 votes

3 answers

18k views

Git : seemed to be in "(no branch)" and then lost my changes

I was trying to push from my Git workspace up to Github but my added and committed changes didn't seem to get uploaded. Then, doing a "git branch" I got something that looked like this : git branch *...

interstar

1,331

asked Aug 20, 2009 at 16:34

13 votes

2 answers

14k views

debian: FATAL -> Failed to fork

First time in my life I have something like this: root@peklan:~# aptitude install git-core No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and ...

holms

1,614

asked Jun 25, 2012 at 0:16

13 votes

8 answers

89k views

Gitlab not working with SSH Keys

I am having issues with Gitlab. I used the following guide to install and configure Gitlab https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/blob/master/install/centos/README.md. The installation seemed to ...

greyfox

267

asked Jan 15, 2014 at 3:02

13 votes

6 answers

4k views

Can etckeeper be used to track config files outside of /etc?

Specifically I would like to track my grub.conf (/boot/grub/grub.conf) and some oracle files (i.e. /db/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/admin/tnsnames.ora). I attempted using links; however ...

ErebusBat

935

asked Dec 10, 2010 at 20:16

13 votes

4 answers

5k views

Encrypt git repository on server (safe against theft of physical hardware)

I have a production server (Ubuntu, running 24/7) with a git repository and some client computers each with a working copy of this repository. In the client computers, simply using home folder ...

leemes

301

asked May 14, 2012 at 18:56

13 votes

2 answers

1k views

git, nagios and hooks, corrupted git repo

Background We're using nagios to monitor our infrastructure. We don't have the nagios configs under version control at the moment, and there are two of us that manage nagios configuration. As such, I'...

EEAA

110k

asked Feb 20, 2012 at 23:08

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