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Lightweight Revision Control for copying config files from a testing server to production server

I am working with EC2, and trying to set up a good system so that I can launch an instance, make changes to a few files (e.g. init scripts), and copy those changes over to the production server, with ...
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setting up repositories for users, what does this entail? [closed]

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 ...
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About dedicated code repository server and others

Do you have a dedicated server for the code repository? I am trying to convince my colleagues to switch from SVN to Git or Mercurial in order to make merging less painful and I am wondering if it's ...
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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?
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Git master repository on central server?

currently i am working with subversion and trying to switch to git as an RCS. Maybe i don't understood the principle of git correct, but there is one big question: Does git need some kind of server ...
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Are Git or SVN coming with a memory footprint?

If you install GIT or SVN (Server Repo) on Linux, will it run any permanent processes i.e. will it leave a permanent memory footprint on my Linux server? I'm on a server where keeping down memory ...
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git clone is blank from a Gitosis Served Repository

Everything is working fine with my public keys and repository activity but when one of my team members tries to clone a repository, the clone is blank, example output: bry4n@~/tests$ git clone git@...
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Which Version Control Systems support LDAP/AD users and groups

Does anyone know which of the big players (if any) support LDAP/AD users and groups for authentication AND database permissions? Specifically, I'm wondering if SVN, GIT, Mercurial etc. will allow ...
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How to set up Gitweb

I have set up Git on a server, using gitosis to control commit access. I would like to configure my Git system so that anyone inside our firewall can have read access to the Git repository, and I ...
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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 ...
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Installing git from source on OS X - exec-path error

I'm trying to install git from source using make prefix=/Users/gareth/local/git install but after installation nothing works properly, the commands all fail with, for example git: 'pull' is not a ...
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git vs Subversion - pros and cons [closed]

I have been a user of SVN for many years now and I can't say I am totally happy about it. Few days ago my partner asked me to take a look at git saying that "it has better performance, easier merging ...
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How Can I Point My Local Testing Server at My GitHub Repository?

Up until a few days ago, I had a particular setup that was as follows. Using SVN, all of the websites that I developed were committed to a source control drop box on a local testing server. Then using ...
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GIT - GitHub Repository Setup Viable?

I have a small team of developers and we have purchased a small private repository account. Essentially all we want to do is have this central repository store all of our source code and for each ...
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Git Repository Source Control Process

My understanding of Git is the following: 1) Working tree ---> File system where you manually make changes. 2) Staging area ---> Where changes lie until they're committed. 3) Repository ---> Where ...
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Configuring a Remote Git Repository On A Networked Server?

I am using Git as my method of managing source control. Currently I am just using Git on my local machine with a local repository. I have a networked server setup which I would like to configure a ...
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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),...
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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 *...
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gitosis interferes with hadoop

Never thought I'd write a title like that, but it's true I have gitosis and hadoop installed. > sudo /usr/lib/hadoop/bin/start-all.sh Enter passphrase for key '/root/.ssh/id_rsa': root@...
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How to access git:// protocol from GitPython

I am writing an app to manage git repos using the GitPython module. It works fine for my local repos but I can't get it to work with the git:// protocol. It takes my git://address-to-repo as a ...
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Install libsvn With SSL Support on Ubuntu (9.04)

The subversion package which is available from the Ubuntu 9.04 repositories has a very annoying limitation which make it basically unusable for repositories hosted on https://. The accepted solution ...
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Error cloning gitosis-admin on new setup

I have the following in my gitosis.conf. (Created via gitsosis-init < id_rsa.pub with the key from my laptop) [gitosis] loglevel = DEBUG [group gitosis-admin] writable = gitosis-admin members = ...
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Multiple users on one server working from a github repo?

We have 4 users trying to work from a private github repo. Each user has a github account. We have a Development server with four "sandbox directories" that these users use will work in and push/pull ...
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How I can secure some Git Repositories in AIX?

I want to secure some git repositories and using only users and groups is not sufficient. I'm thinking about using ACLs to control the access. The access to the repositories is local, the users ...
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How to delete Git repository with Gitosis

I'm using Gitosis to administer some Git repositories on a remote server. Since I'm at the beginning with it, I make a lot of mistakes. That's why right now I need to delete a Git repository that I ...
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Is it possible to use etckeeper with a single shared git repository?

I noticed that several people have recommended using etckeeper to apply version control to my /etc directory. It appears to me that the default install puts a repository on the same machine as the /...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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GIt Daemon and Access Control for Multiple Repos

Here is the situation, I have a folder named git which contains various --bare git repositories. This is on my server which is CentOS 5. My personal computer at home is a Windows XP. I want to push ...
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Multiple HTTP Git Repos Setup

What is the http.conf in order to automatically serve all my git repositories? For example, if I have a directory structure as follows (a number of project inside a central directory named git): /../...
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Up-to-date repository for CentOS git RPMS

I'm currently maintaining git packages manually for my CentOS machines since there seem to be no recent packages available in the Repos. I'm rebuilding the SRPMS from kernel.org, but --without docs ...
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How to stop git-daemon on debian

I'm running debian lenny server, and I've installed git on it. Now there is a git-daemon process (and appropriate opened port), but there is no /etc/init.d/git script that I could stop. I know there ...
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Git and Mercurial

I would like to know: What's the difference between Git and Mercurial? What are the pros and cons of using them? How good is the Windows support for both tools?
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How do I fix the metainformation on the first commit in git?

This is a related question to How do I edit git’s history to correct an incorrect email address/name. Using git rebase -i <first commit>, git commit --amend --author "Foo <[email protected]>...
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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 ...
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How to control access permission with git

I'm using a rental server from hostingrails.com , I operate Rails in FastCGI here, by the permissions that SuExec used, which were 755 it seems not to have been able to set permission.(For example, I ...
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