I had the same problem after upgrading to Sierra. In addition to brew –prefix, which displays Homebrew’s install path, there’s also brew –repository, which displays where it’s .git directory is located. man brew says that claims that “for standard installs, the prefix and repository are the same directory”. Either the man page is out of … Read more
The variable $? contains the last commands return code EDIT: precise example: git status &> /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo “git status exited successfully” else echo “git status exited with error code” fi
Best way to work on a Subversion Repository via Git: git svn init -s https://svn.repo/app/ myrepo assuming that under https://svn.repo/app/ the repo contains the standard /trunk, branches and tags subdirectories Do a git svn fetch in myrepo until no more commits are fetched (may take quite some time and sometimes aborts under Windows). Checkout a … Read more
git status | grep typechange | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs git checkout
The difference is in goals and process. A release branch is usually created when you are preparing for an upcoming release. When all your feature branches which are supposed to be released have already been merged to develop branch you create release branch off develop branch and commit only bug fixes or some configuration changes … Read more
There is a good chance you have special characters somewhere in your commands according to these two SO posts: git: fatal: I don’t handle protocol ‘http’ Git Fetch returns ‘fatal: I don’t handle protocol https’ in windows Retype the commands and the problem should be alleviated.
The remote end hangs up because the pack size you are trying to transmit exceeds the maximum HTTP post size. Try to limit this pack size with git config –local http.postBuffer 157286400 to 150MB.
Actually, git diff is between index and working tree. It just so happens that until you have staged changes to the index (with git add) that its contents will be identical to the HEAD commit. git diff HEAD is between repo and working tree. See 365git.tumblr.com post:
Update Oct. 2018, as commented below by PHPirate: λ git –version git version 2.19.1.windows.1 λ gpg –version gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.9-unknown libgcrypt 1.8.3 Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. No trace of that update in git-for-windows/git/releases Original answer (2017): By default, Git for Windows includes a gpg1, not gpg2 vonc@bvonc MINGW64 ~/.ssh $ gpg –version … Read more
If the folder is the top level of a git repository, and you actually want to completely remove the entire git repo associated with the folder, then simply delete the (hidden) .git directory from the folder: cd foldername rm -r .git If the folder is a subdirectory of a git repository, then gautier’s method is … Read more