OK, total noob question, for msysgit on Windows 7, but I have a remote repository (on unfuddle), create on one PC, and now I want to pull it down to another PC. I tried 'Fetch' using Git Gui, but the folder still only has a .git subfolder. It took a while pulling it down, so I assume there is something in the repo, but how do I check it out to a working copy. Nothing I have tried seems to work.
SOLUTION:
It's not directly in his answer, but VonC below pointed me to the unfuddle help documentation for Git, which is as terse as the Git man-pages are dense. The follwing single command got me the working copy and local repository I needed:
$ git clone git#subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/abbreviation.git
Following the Git documentation on Unfuddle, did you declare your unfunddle repo as a remote?
$ cd /path/to/repository
$ git remote add unfuddle git#subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/abbreviation.git
Try also gitk --all: if the fetch has succeded, you should the remote tracking branches (like unfuddle/master). You can then merge it to your master branch in order to finally see files in your (still empty) working tree.
You could also have done a git pull to combine the two steps together (fetch+merge). See this blog post for illustration.
Actually, the OP ProfK reports a cloning issue:
I did already have the unfuddle remote added
git clone git#subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/abbreviation.git
is more suited to get a local repo with the right remote already added to it.
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I'm trying to clone a repo to my computer. I do the standard
git clone [link to bitbucket repo]
and then call
git branch -a
to see my remote branches, which shows
remotes/origin/develop
which is the branch I want to checkout into. However, when I type
git checkout develop
I get an error that says
error: invalid path '.\api-log\api.log'
and it fails to create the local develop branch. Is this happening because there is something wrong with the file? If so, how can I fix/remove the file so that the clone will go through? All the work is in the develop branch and nothing in the master.
I'm using Windows.
Apologies if this has been answered before but I couldn't find anything.
I don't know exactly why this happen but I suggest you to remove the offending file from the repository history by the wonderful BFG tool.
At this url https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ you can get the software and the documentation.
I need to push my modified new java code to my old git repository in github but I do not have old code in my pc. How to do that?
I had push a code before my github account before. Now I don't have that old code in my pc. How do I pull the project into my pc and after making changes, push again to the same repository?
I do not have much experience in github, so please help me to improve skills on github.
Check your remote first to see where it is pointing to by
$ git remote -v
origin ssh://git#<old-git-url>/<project>.git (fetch)
origin ssh://git#g<old-git-url>/<project>.git (push)
Change the pointing to GitHub
$ git remote set-url origin ssh://git#<github-url>/<project>.git
Now your repo is pointing to Github
Now you can make your changes and then add them and do a commit and finally push to remote branch; say you are on master.
git add <file>
git commit -m <commit message>
git push origin master
I had to do just that and achieved it like this.
Setup. I assume you have a new remote repository with files that may not cause a conflict with the directory you currently have locally.
Git clone from the git repository you need to push to. Just make sure you create a new directory for the cloned code.
Copy the contents of the cloned repository into the local directory that has your current code. Make sure to copy the .git (hidden) file.
cd into your local directory and run git remote -v. You should see the remote repository git address.
git add -A to add whatever change you require and commit it.
Finally git push
You need to make sure that your local repository (the one that is on your computer) is connected to the remote repository (the one that is on the GitHub servers).
After this, you need to add the modified file to the staging area. Say, you have a file test.txt that you have modified, you would add it to the staging area by typing
git add test.txt
After that you would need to commit those changes. You can do that by
git commit -m "commit message"
And that's it, you have now saved those changes and recorded them in the version control. But the changes that you made have only been recorded in your local repository and you would need to push these changes to the remote repository (the GitHub servers). You can do this by
git push origin master
It would take a few seconds (depending on your internet speed and the project file size) to push these changes to the remote servers. Once it's done, you can open that repository on GitHub and see the changes for yourself.
Just to amend this a bit. I believe "master" is now "main" in some instances or platforms. If this answer isn't working for you, try swapping that out. It worked for me.
As is shown in the image,I'm not sure if the failure is caused by some missing property while setting up webstorm .
The issue is not resolved after a lot of efforts.As a learner,I don't know what to do now.
Meanwhile,something seems wrong as shown in git bash.I've no idea whether the two are directly related.
If you have ever faced these difficulties,could you please give me some idea? Even if it's only a web address.
What I want to do is only pushing my code. Anyone who pushed successfully in any other way will be welcomed to share your method.
If I'm being honest I'm not sure that I completely understand your question, but I will supply some information that will hopefully lead you down the right track.
First in the bash shell, cd (change directory) into your project directory like this:
$ cd /c/foo/bar/yourprojectfolder
In your project top most directory, do you have a .git folder? You may have to show hidden folders in windows to see this directory. If not, you need to initialize a repository with the init command.
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/foo/bar/yourprojectfolder/.git/
After running this command, you should see a .git folder inside of the directory you changed to (used cd to get to) earlier.
Next, in order to push, you first need a remote repository to push to. Based on your first picture, I believe that you have successfully created a repository on GitHub. If not however, just log into GitHub and click the 'New Repository' button:
Once a repo has been created, you need to add it as a remote to your local git (in git bash). To do this you need a url (either SSH or HTTPS) to your repo. You can find this url inside of your repository in online GitHub. If you are not certain you have set up SSH, it's best to use the HTTPS url. It should look something like this, but the url itself will be different and specific to your repository:
Copy that url to your clipboard, and then back in git bash run:
$ git remote add origin <PASTE YOUR URL HERE>
You need to make an initial commit of your code to have something to push:
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
Finally, with the origin repo set up and a commit made, you should be able to push to your origin repo
$ git push -u origin master
You should now be able to view your code on GitHub.
I have an issue with a new remote repository that when cloned using Tower, doesn't clone all the directories.
When I created the remote repository, I did the following:
Created a .gitignore file containing the following line
files/cache/*
Then ran:
git init
git add .
git commit
I then cloned the remote repository to my local machine using a Mac OSX git client called Tower but noticed that many of the directories did not clone.
When I go back and look at my terminal session on the webserver, I can see the directories that weren't cloned listed after the initial commit - I see a whole bunch of lines that look like this:
create mode 10644 directory-name/path/to/file.php
create mode 10644 directory-name/path/file.php
create mode 10644 directory-name/path/to/file.php
create mode 10644 directory-name/path/file.php
So I'm guessing they were added but I'm also wondering if my .gitignore file is not setup right and is conflicting with Tower somehow?
I tried the .gitignore file a couple of ways, firstly like this:
files/cache/*
then like this:
files/cache/
After changing it to the second one, I ran git add -A (which didn't seem to add anything new) on the server and pulled the repo down using Tower again - but no luck.
Not sure if this is Git or Tower or both - not sure what I'm doing wrong, sorry.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ben
Don't forget that git won't add (and clone) empty directories.
(or directories with ignored content, making them empty for Git)
See:
"Does git ignore empty folders?"
"How do I add an empty directory to a git repository?"
I am currently setting up a git schema as described here.
The server in question is running Windows Server 2008 R2, using copSSH and msysGit.
The jist of it is a pair of git repos: one bare repo that is pushed to and then another non-bare repo that contains a live application.
The repo that is pushed to contains a post-update hook that looks as follows:
echo
echo "**** Pushing data to Live Server."
echo
cd /cygdrive/c/Repositories/Live || exit
unset GIT_DIR
git pull hub master
exec git-update-server-info
Of note: Live is the non-bare repo which is, as the name implies, live. Live.git is the bare repo which contains the above hook and is pushed to. I was unable to cd to the repo without /cygdrive/, which was uncovered by echoing $pwd in a diagnostic push.
Pull is successfully called in the Live repo, the problem comes in locating the Live.git repo in that update. I get "odd ball" errors that read like:
remote: Pushing data to Live Server.ommand not foundnd not foundle or directory
remote: : not foundpdate-server-infoand not foundand not founddommand not found
hub is defined as a remote repository via the local git shell as both /c/Repositories/Live.git and /cygdrive/c/Repositories/Live.git.
I've replaced "hub" with direct folder paths, even trying things like "../Live.git"
Everything I have tried has ended in a git update failure. All of the attempted paths for Live.git in the update command were attempted via a git bash with the working directory set to the Live repo and worked.
Thank you for any leads or help!
An update:
My schema requires that I pull from the hub repository, it would take an unnecessary amount of room to explain why, but such is the case.
I have done more testing and found more out about my issue:
When I push via SSH to my repository, the prime hub is successfully mounted and the pull command is executed. When said pull command tries to resolve the hub repository it fails (as I detailed above), but it turns out with a series of ls commands in the hook that no folders can be seen. I even ran an ls on /cygdrive/c/ and can only see a folder called usr. I have ensured that the copSSH user has full administrative privileges on the entire file system (only for testing and debugging purposes).
I do not know why my paths have to use the /cygdrive/ path, I do not have cygwin installed besides the cygwin packaged in copSSH. Is this indicative of a problem in my configuration? or is this normal for copSSH + msysGit setups? How is it possible that I can mount the prime repository from the hook, even if ls will not list the repositories folder?
You shouldn't need /cygdrive in paths with msysgit, unless you also have cygwin installed (in which case the combination of msysgit mingw and cygwin might be the source of your problem)
You shouldn't try to run git pull from a repo hook. While some people will say that it works fine, it does not and the behavior can be unpredictable due to various factors.
Instead you should use a method such as this one. http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto
That method uses a post-receive hook in a bare repo that calls git checkout to update a directory.