You could specify what branch you want to pull: git pull origin master Or you could set it up so that your local master branch tracks github master branch as an upstream: git branch –set-upstream-to=origin/master master git pull This branch tracking is set up for you automatically when you clone a repository (for the default … Read more
Fork, in the GitHub context, doesn’t extend Git. It only allows clone on the server side. When you clone a GitHub repository on your local workstation, you cannot contribute back to the upstream repository unless you are explicitly declared as “contributor”. That’s because your clone is a separate instance of that project. If you want … Read more
(Note: starting Oct. 2020, any new repository is created with the default branch main, not master. And you can rename existing repository default branch from master to main. The rest of this 2014 answer has been updated to use “main“) (The following assumes github.com itself is not down, as eri0o points out in the comments: … Read more
Just include #xxx in your commit message to reference an issue without closing it. With new GitHub issues 2.0 you can use these synonyms to reference an issue and close it (in your commit message): fix #xxx fixes #xxx fixed #xxx close #xxx closes #xxx closed #xxx resolve #xxx resolves #xxx resolved #xxx You can … Read more
GitHub isn’t able to authenticate you. So, either you aren’t setup with an SSH key, because you haven’t set one up on your machine, or your key isn’t associated with your GitHub account. You can also use the HTTPS URL instead of the SSH/git URL to avoid having to deal with SSH keys. This is … Read more
Run the following command to retrieve the SHA256 fingerprint of your SSH key (-l means “list” instead of create a new key, -f means “filename”): $ ssh-keygen -lf /path/to/ssh/key So for example, on my machine the command I ran was (using RSA public key): $ ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 2048 00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff /Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (RSA) To get the … Read more
If you enabled two-factor authentication in your GitHub account you won’t be able to push via HTTPS using your accounts password. Instead you need to generate a personal access token. This can be done in the application settings of your GitHub account. Using this token as your password should allow you to push to your … Read more
Because https://github.com/visionmedia/express is the URL of a web page and not an npm module. Use this flavor: git+{url}.git git+https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git or this flavor if you need SSH: git+ssh://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git
From August 13, 2021, GitHub is no longer accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations. You need to add a PAT (Personal Access Token) instead, and you can follow the below method to add a PAT on your system. Create Personal Access Token on GitHub From your GitHub account, go to Settings => Developer Settings … Read more
Update 30th, January 2013, 16 months later: GitHub Blog Post Relative links in markup files: Starting today, GitHub supports relative links in markup files. Now you can link directly between different documentation files, whether you view the documentation on GitHub itself, or locally, using a different markup renderer. You want examples of link definitions and … Read more