I wanted to rename one of my repositories on GitHub, but I got scared when a big red warning said: We will not set up any redirects from the old location You will need to update your local repositories to point to the new location Renaming may take a few minutes to complete Does anyone … Read more
Private clone URLs take the form [email protected]:username/repo.git – perhaps you needed to use git@ rather than git://? git:// URLs are read only, and it looks like private repos do not allow this form of access.
Answer recommended by GitLab GitLab’s “merge request” feature is equivalent to GitHub’s “pull request” feature. Both are means of pulling changes from another branch or fork into your branch and merging the changes with your existing code. They are useful tools for code review and change management. An article from GitLab discusses the differences in naming the feature: Merge or pull requests … Read more
Update Apr. 2021: there are a few tools created by the community that can do this for you: Download Directory (Credits to fregante) It has also been integrated into the excellent Refined Github chrome extension as a button in the Github web UI. GitZip (Credits to Kino – see his answer here) DownGit (Credits to Minhas Kamal – see his answer here) Note: if you’re trying to download a … Read more
Rungit config –global user.email “[email protected]”git config –global user.name “Your Name” Note: You are authenticated successfully but git needs your username & email to do a commit. It is not related to authentication. Your username/email can be different from your GitHub Account. You need to run the following commands for a single time. This user.name & user.email will be set globally in ~/.gitconfig file.
Actually, there is a way to rename a folder using web interface. See https://github.com/blog/1436-moving-and-renaming-files-on-github
TL;DR Use / in the file name field to create folder(s), e.g. typing folder1/file1 in the file name field will create a folder folder1 and a file file1. Original answerYou cannot create an empty folder and then add files to that folder, but rather creation of a folder must happen together with adding of at least a single file. This is because git doesn’t track empty folders. … Read more
The remote repository has been configured to disallow you pushing a commit that would reveal your personal e-mail address. For example in GitHub you have checked the Block command line pushes that expose my email checkbox to enable this. While you can of course uncheck that setting, it will expose your private e-mail address to everyone in the … Read more
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
You could specify what branch you want to pull: Or you could set it up so that your local master branch tracks github master branch as an upstream: This branch tracking is set up for you automatically when you clone a repository (for the default branch only), but if you add a remote to an … Read more