Git does not support per-branch excludes files You’re trying to achieve something that Git does not support. The blog post is the original source of this hoax that the Stack Overflow answer only parroted. As noted in comments under that answer, even the original blog post contains a discussion that brings out that the solution … Read more
Update for Git 2.23 (Q3 2019), you now have git config tag.gpgSign true! Original answer (June 2018) While there is no “signed by default” mode for git tag, the documentation mentions: Once you have a private key to sign with, you can configure Git to use it for signing things by setting the user.signingkey config … Read more
There is currently no way to use git push to create a repository on the remote. The best you can do is write a one-liner script something like this: #!/bin/bash ssh $1 “git init –bare $2” && git push ssh://$1/$2 Hopefully you can ssh in; if you can’t, you could use some kind of filesystem … Read more
Download the latest .dmg package for Mac from here: Meld for OSX Set meld as your git difftool/mergetool by editing your ~/.gitconfig and adding the following lines, as mentioned in the above link: [diff] tool = meld [difftool] prompt = false [difftool “meld”] trustExitCode = true cmd = open -W -a Meld –args \”$LOCAL\” \”$PWD/$REMOTE\” … Read more
That shouldn’t be the case, according to the git-config man page on pull.ff: (…) When set to only, only such fast-forward merges are allowed (equivalent to giving the –ff-only option from the command line). This setting overrides merge.ff when pulling. The configuration pull.ff has been introduced in Git 2.x, so it won’t work as expected … Read more
I just encountered this error. Executing set HOMEPATH in the command line gave this output: HOMEPATH=\ Simply deleting this environment variable via set HOMEPATH= fixed the problem.
I tried removing the double quotes and typing it again. weirdly it worked. since I copied the text from https://blog.gitguardian.com/8-easy-steps-to-set-up-multiple-git-accounts/
I found the change in my .gitconfig coincided with an update to github for mac exactly, which is why I labeled it as such in my repo. As to what Hawser actually is, Github for mac has it bundled at the /Applications/GitHub.app/Contents/Resources/hawser/bin/git-hawser path. running the executable with –help=false yields: git-hawser/0.4.0 (GitHub; darwin amd64; git 2.3.0; … Read more
You’re not using the correct syntax: there shouldn’t be any equal sign between user.name and “My name”, or between user.email and “[email protected]”. For instance, when you run git config –global user.name = “My Name” the command interprets the = character as the string value passed to the user.name key, and the rest of the line … Read more
Use git config -e and you should see something like: [user] name = Shani name = shani name = shani Delete the lines you don’t want.