How do I update Homebrew?
When I ran: I got a message saying it initialized an empty repository in /usr/local/.git/, then I got this error:
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How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?
In Git 1.7.0 and later, you can checkout a new branch: Edit files, add and commit. Then push with the -u (short for –set-upstream) option: Git will set up the tracking information during the push.
Git error: “Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists”
I am using TortoiseGit on Windows. When I am trying to Clone from the context menu of the standard Windows Explorer, I get this error: Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists More precisely, the snapshot of terminal is the following: git.exe clone –progress -v “git@arobotdev:\git\AlfaRobot.git” “C:\Work\AlfaRobot” Cloning into … Read more
Download single files from GitHub
Git does not support downloading parts of the repository. You have to download all of it. But you should be able to do this with GitHub. When you view a file it has a link to the “raw” version. The URL is constructed like so By filling in the blanks in the URL, you can … Read more
What does “Changes not staged for commit” mean
when you change a file which is already in the repository, you have to git add it again if you want it to be staged. This allows you to commit only a subset of the changes you made since the last commit. For example, let’s say you have file a, file b and file c. … Read more
Git push results in “Authentication Failed”
If you enabled two-factor authentication in your Github account you won’t be able to push via HTTPS using your accounts password. Instead you need to generate a personal access token. This can be done in the application settings of your Github account. Using this token as your password should allow you to push to your … Read more
git: fatal: Could not read from remote repository
You can specify the username that SSH should send to the remote system as part of your remote’s URL. Put the username, followed by an @, before the remote hostname.
Windows git “warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF”, is that warning tail backward?
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF. Depending on the editor you are using, a text file with LF wouldn’t necessary be saved with CRLF: recent editors can preserve eol style. But that git config setting insists on changing those… Simply make sure that (as I recommend here): That way, you avoid any automatic transformation, … Read more
Git : fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists
I asked in the discussion: does ssh -T [email protected] ouput the same username (in Hi [My Username]!) as in the one used for the ssh url of your repo ([email protected]:username/repo.git)? Sorry It not showing same name That means somehow the credentials have changed. One solution would be to at least copy %HOME%\.ssh\id_rsa.pub in the SSH … Read more
github changes not staged for commit
Is week1 a submodule? Note the relevant part from the output of the git status command: (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules) Try cd week1 and issuing another git status to see what changes you have made to the week1 submodule. See http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules for more information about how submodules work in … Read more