Same problem using VS 2015, my workaround : Install Git http://git-scm.com/ Configure Git to use http instead of git:// with Git Bash git config –global url.”http://”.insteadOf git:// Edit (as pointed by g.pickardou) you can use https to be more secure: git config –global url.”https://”.insteadOf git:// Configure VS to use the new installed Git over VS … Read more
git push can push all branches or a single one dependent on this configuration: Push all branches git config –global push.default matching It will push all the branches to the remote branch and would merge them. If you don’t want to push all branches, you can push the current branch if you fully specify its … Read more
Git uses a hierarchical config approach in which settings of a broader scope are inherited if not overriden. On the top level is the system config (all users, usually in /etc/git), then there is the global config (which can override system defaults with personal ones, located in the home directory of the user, e.g. $HOME/.gitconfig … Read more
As this commit explains, they’ve added another config location only for Windows, which is applied even before the –system: The file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. On Windows, configuration can also be stored in C:\ProgramData\Git\config; This file will be used also by libgit2-based software. … On Windows, as there is … Read more
You can conditionally include another Git config file based on your Git directory or branch in Git 2.13 and later. Put your default configuration in file ~/.gitconfig as usual. At the end, conditionally include another configuration file: [user] email = john@personal.com name = John McGehee # All work Git repositories are in a subdirectory of … Read more
This is controlled by the -F (–quit-if-one-screen) option to less. Git uses the options FRSX for/of less by default, if none are specified by the $LESS or $GIT_PAGER environment variables. To change it, specify the core.pager option and set it to RSX: git config –global core.pager ‘less -+F’ Older versions of Git used to recommend … Read more
Lowest to highest priority: /etc/gitconfig: system wide, edited when –system parameter is used ~/.gitconfig: user specific configuration, edited when –global parameter is used .git/config: repository specific configuration
since git 2.8.0 git config –global http.proxy http://[user]@proxyhost:port git config –global credential.helper wincred
I had committed my changes and received a permission denied with my global user. Subsequently setting the local user did nothing, though git config user.name reported the correct local user. What worked was (courtesy of this google groups thread): git commit –amend –reset-author I presume the committed changes had the original author attached.
You should stop using –author each time you commit, and instead configure an author with git config. Once you’ve done so, you can type git commit and the author will be pulled from your .gitconfig file. If you want to give –author a name to use for authoring the commit, you need to use bob … Read more