I know there's an option to make a local repository for your project when you first create it, but is there an option create a repository after you've created your project?
Sure, just run the following command in your project directory:
git init
This will create the .git directory containing an empty repository. Then, add and commit your files.
In the command prompt, make sure you're in the desired directory and perform a git init and you will have created an empty repository.
You can then proceed to add the files and directories to the repository by doing
git add <filename1> <filename2> ...
or you can select whole directories and use * to act as a wild card of sorts.
git add ./*
If you have any more questions check out these pages:
http://gitref.org/creating/
http://gitref.org/basic/#add
Hope this helps.
You should go to your Xcode menu, click Source Control > Create Working Copy...
Xcode will automatically create your .git folder repository.
Good luck, and make sure you have a backup of your project before trying something else.
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I have a repository on GitHub that I would like to make public so recruiters can view it.
This repository though holds my SMTP and a MongoDB URI that shouldn't be shared with others. This information is in my application.properties file.
What's the simplest way to hide this sensitive data and also make sure no one can go look at old commits and see how it was before hiding it?
I have seen some ways on the web but they all look quite complicated...
Thank you for your experience and time
Use environment variables to hide your sensitive data. Like
spring.data.mongodb.host=${MONGO_DB_HOST}
spring.mail.host=${MAIL_HOST}
Set the values at your dev environment.
I don't have any idea about how to hide your old commits.
Make a .gitignore file at the root of your project and inside list whatever files you don't want git to have access to it when you push into GitHUb, for example:
/public/packs
/node_modules/
.pnp.js
/ (forward slash) is used for folders and
. (dot) is used for files
Here follows a picture of the location of the .gitignore file.
If the goal is just for recruitment, would it be acceptable to have a second copy for recruitment, while leaving the original copy alone?
While there's certainly more idiomatic ways of achieving this through git, a simple solution with minimal git knowledge or advanced techniques would be:
Create a new empty git project on GitHub
Clone the new project locally
Copy the (non-.git) files from the existing project into the new project (using either the console or your OS's windowed UI)
Delete or redact the offending entries from the new project
Commit the changes as a single commit
Push the new project back to GitHub
I have not used it myself, but the open source BFG Repo-Cleaner looks like it might satisfy your requirements of simplicity while retaining the activity chart for reviewers to view. This can be done on a publicly-facing copy of the repo if you wish to keep your private working copy, while still keeping the activity history viewable.
Following the tool's usage instructions, you should be able do the following (assuming you want these changes in a fresh copy of the repo):
The first step is to duplicate the repository on GitHub, following the instructions in the GitHub docs.
To do this, first create a new repository.
Next, mirror the repository, following the GitHub instructions:
Open Terminal.
Create a bare clone of the repository.
$ git clone --bare https://github.com/exampleuser/old-repository.git
Mirror-push to the new repository.
$ cd old-repository.git
$ git push --mirror https://github.com/exampleuser/new-repository.git
Remove the temporary local repository you created earlier.
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf old-repository.git
Now that you have the duplicate repository, you can run the BFG Repo-Cleaner to replace all instances of text you want hidden with ***REMOVED***.
$ java -jar bfg.jar --replace-text replacements.txt my-repo.git
The replacements.txt file would contain the SMTP, MongoDB URI, and any other text you want hidden.
mongodb://my-username:my-password#host1.example.com:27017,host2.example.com:27017/my-database
marco-f#example.com
Note that this does not update the latest commit on the master/HEAD branch, so this will need to be manually changed, and then committed. This can either achieved using a final commit using the --amend option, or by making a new commit prior to running the BFG Repo-Cleaner with the files manually changed.
$ git commit --amend
Now that the changes have been made, they can be pushed to GitHub.
$ git push
In the git-windows-interface when I drag and drop a repository it says: "Can't drop folder, You can only drop one folder without git repository with the app at this time. Dropping a single folder will allow you create a new Git repository in that location...".
How should I add a git repository to the git-windows-interface?
thanks
You can try and make GitHub for Windows detect your repo, by modifying the local path(s) it scans.
That would avoid trying that "drag and drop feature" which might not work in your case (being a submodule, which is by nature a nested git repo).
If it isn't possible to change that path, at least try and copy that repo in %HOME%\My Documents (HOME being set by the portable git within GitHub for Windows, C:\User\login on W7+, C:\Document and Settings\Login on WXp).
Then a local scan will detect it.
I was getting the same error. I had been trying to drag in the hidden .Git folder. Instead, drag in the folder above, which contains the .Git folder.
This worked for me:
Rename the ".git" folder to ".git_back"
Create a new git repo in the same folder so the new ".git" folder is in the same folder as the old one.
Close github for windows, delete the new .git folder and rename the old one back to ".git"
Open github for windows again, and it will see the old ".git" folder.
I have an Xcode project that is under version control. I've grouped the classes in the project navigator into folders based on what the classes do (eg. Models, Views, Controllers, etc.). However, these folder structures seem local to my machine and it is not reflected in my own local git repository, or if I do a git pull from another machine, the folders that I've created or organized my classes into don't appear. So, How do you get the changes you make (organizing the classes into folders) to reflect in your local and remote repository?
Try this
# modified, new and deleted files
git add -A
ref
I found that the adding a folder or directory manually inside the local repository to work for me. Create the folder in the repository,git add folder_name/ to actually track and add it to the repo. The files then can be moved into this folder. Depending on how you move it, you may need to do git rm <file_name> and git add </folder_name/file_name>.
I have created a repository named appengine-testers on github. It is a public repository. Though I easily managed to create a repository but I do not know how to store code there. Do I need to upload the code/folder ?
There are multiple options to do that, i'll just briefly tell the simple one.
git clone ssh-path-to-project
It creates .git folder in the project which is used for references.
cd project
copy the entire project code from any location and paste it in this folder.
Now
Add all the untracked files.
git add .
git commit -am <"commit message">
or
git commit -a
Which automatically takes the changes.Lastly
git push
It pushed the entire code to the repository
One more simple option is do
git init
in the project folder and then change the remote url in the .git folder created inside the project folder
Once you create the repo on github, it'll give you a URL (that looks kinda like git#github.com:yourusername/appengine-testers.git) with push access. From there, you just push from your local repo to that URL.
It's probably easier if you add that URL as a remote. Typically you'd call it 'origin'.
Q: So I have local svn setup on my mac. I want to change to working copy of a repository to another folder without 'svn checkout', so that I can commit some code that is not currently in the working copy.
Problem with 'svn checkout'
The reason I don't want to use 'svn checkout' is b/c I don't want to overwrite the code into the new folder designated for working copy, because when I move the new code into the new designated folder and do an svn commit, I get an error based on the .svn hidden folders that svn attaches to your committed code.
What I am trying to accomplish?
I got myself into this mess, b/c I am trying to add multiple versions of my code into different folders, so that I can compare them against one another.
Thanks, Jon
You can use "svn copy" to copy one or more files in a working copy or in the repository.
More details: http://www.visualsvn.com/support/svnbook/ref/svn/c/copy/
I hope it helps.
When you do a svn checkout, it does not delete and overwrite existing files - it merges them (try it - make a backup copy of your target directory and then svn checkout into it).
However, the simplest way is to svn checkout into a clean directory, then copy your files on top of the checkout. Rename your current directory to something else if you need to keep the directory name for your checkout.