Questions tagged [repository]
Can refer to the data store of a version control system containing the whole history of a project, or to an object that transfers data between the business layer of an application and its data store.
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How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?
How do I:
Create a local branch from another branch (via git branch or git checkout -b).
Push the local branch
to the remote repository (i.e. publish), but make it
trackable so that git pull and git ...
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How do I update or sync a forked repository on GitHub?
I forked a project, made changes, and created a pull request which was accepted. New commits were later added to the repository. How do I get those commits into my fork?
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Remove a file from a Git repository without deleting it from the local filesystem
I want to remove a file from my repository.
git rm file_to_remove.txt
will remove the file from the repository, but it will also remove the file from the local file system. How do I remove this file ...
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How do I clone a Git repository into a specific folder?
The command git clone [email protected]:whatever creates a directory named whatever containing a Git repository:
./
whatever/
.git
I want the contents of the Git repository cloned into my ...
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How do you merge two Git repositories?
Consider the following scenario:
I have developed a small experimental project A in its own Git repo. It has now matured, and I'd like A to be part of larger project B, which has its own big ...
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How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository?
I have my Git repository which, at the root, has two subdirectories:
/finisht
/static
When this was in SVN, /finisht was checked out in one place, while /static was checked out elsewhere, like so:
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Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repository
How can I download only a specific folder or directory from a remote Git repository hosted on GitHub?
Say the example GitHub repository lives here:
[email protected]:foobar/Test.git
Its directory ...
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git: how to rename a branch (both local and remote)?
I have a local branch master that points to a remote branch origin/regacy (oops, typo!).
How do I rename the remote branch to origin/legacy or origin/master?
I tried:
git remote rename regacy legacy
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What is the difference between GitHub and gist?
What is the purpose of gist and how is it different from regular code sharing/maintaining using GitHub?
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How should I deal with "package 'xxx' is not available (for R version x.y.z)" warning?
I tried to install a package, using
install.packages("foobarbaz")
but received the warning
Warning message:
package 'foobarbaz' is not available (for R version x.y.z)
Why doesn't R think that the ...
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How to move some files from one git repo to another (not a clone), preserving history
Our Git repositories started out as parts of a single monster SVN repository where the individual projects each had their own tree like so:
project1/branches
/tags
/trunk
project2/...
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How to count total lines changed by a specific author in a Git repository?
Is there a command I can invoke which will count the lines changed by a specific author in a Git repository? I know that there must be ways to count the number of commits as Github does this for their ...
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Untrack files from git temporarily
I have setup a local git on my machine. When I initialized git, I added pre-compiled libs and binaries. However, now during my development I don't want to check in those files intermittently. I dont ...
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How do I make a Git commit in the past?
I'm converting everything over to Git for my own personal use and I found some old versions of a file already in the repository. How do I commit it to the history in the correct order according the ...
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How do I rename a repository on GitHub?
I wanted to rename one of my repositories on GitHub, but I got scared when a big red warning said:
We will not set up any redirects from the old location
You will need to update your local ...
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How to generate a Dockerfile from an image?
Is it possible to generate a Dockerfile from an image? I want to know for two reasons:
I can download images from the repository but would like to see the recipe that generated them.
I like the idea ...
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Project vs Repository in GitHub
In GitHub, what is the conceptual difference between a project (that can be created inside a repository) and a repository?
I've seen several similar questions (here, here and here) in SO, but none ...
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Transfer git repositories from GitLab to GitHub - can we, how to and pitfalls (if any)?
Can one transfer repositories from GitLab to GitHub if the need be. If so, how exactly can I go about doing the same?
Also, are there any pitfalls in doing so or precautionary measures that I need to ...
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Proper Repository Pattern Design in PHP?
Preface: I'm attempting to use the repository pattern in an MVC architecture with relational databases.
I've recently started learning TDD in PHP, and I'm realizing that my database is coupled much ...
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Can I arrange repositories into folders on Github?
I am new to git and what I am doing now is to upload all my recent projects as repositories to github. There are a lot of different projects like webdesign, wordpress themes and different types of ...
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How to remove the first commit in git?
I am curious about how to remove the first commit in git.
What is the revision before committing any thing? Does this revision have a name or tag?
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How to upload a project to GitHub
After checking How can I upload my project's Git repository to GitHub?, I still have no idea how to get a project uploaded to my GitHub repository.
I created a repository and want to upload my project ...
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Can a project have multiple origins?
Can a project have two (or more) "origins" in Git?
I would like to push a single project to both github and a Heroku server.
Specifically, this error appears when adding the github repository:
$ ...
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Moving Git repository content to another repository preserving history
I am trying to move only the contents of one repository (repo1) to another existing repository (repo2) using the following commands:
git clone repo1
git clone repo2
cd repo1
git remote rm origin
git ...
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What's the -practical- difference between a Bare and non-Bare repository?
I've been reading about the bare and non-bare / default repositories in Git. I haven't been able to understand quite well (theoretically) the differences between them, and why I should "push"...
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If I fork someone else's private Github repo into my account, is it going to appear in my account as a public repo?
Someone gave me access to one of their private repo on Github. What I want to do is to fork that project into my own account, so I could make use of Github's pull request feature.
I only have a basic ...
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Repository Pattern Step by Step Explanation [closed]
Can someone please explain to me the Repository Pattern in .NET, step by step giving a very simple example or demo.
I know this is a very common question but so far I haven't found a satisfactory ...
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Repository size limits for GitHub.com
Lately I have been using GitHub and I am wondering what is the repository size limit for files hosted on github.com?
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How do you get the Git repository's name in some Git repository?
When you are working in some Git directory, how can you get the Git repository name in some Git repository? Are there any Git commands?
# I did check out bar repository and working in somewhere
# ...
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Git error: src refspec master does not match any [duplicate]
I need to create a repo named carboncake.
I tried this:
Cloned the gitosis-admin repository to my local machine
$ git clone [email protected]:repositories/gitosis-admin.git
$ cd gitosis-admin
$ ...
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can you host a private repository for your organization to use with npm?
Npm sounds like a great platform to use within an organization, curious if a private repo is possible, like with Nexus/Maven. Nothing comes up on Google :(
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Gradle buildscript dependencies
What is the difference between declaring repositories in the buildscript section of the gradle build or in the root level of the build.
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral();
}
}
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Change old commit message using `git rebase`
I was trying to edit an old commit message as explained here.
The thing is that now, when I try to run rebase -i HEAD~5 it says interactive rebase already started.
So then I try: git rebase --continue ...
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Git - Ignore files during merge
I have a repo called myrepo on the remote beanstalk server.
I cloned it to my local machine. Created two additional branches: staging and dev.
Pushed these branches to remote as well.
Now:
local ...
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Delete local Git branches after deleting them on the remote repo
I want to have my local and remote repositories always in sync in terms of branches.
After a Pull Request review on GitHub, I merge and remove my branch there (remote).
How could I fetch this ...
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Can I create more than one repository for GitHub Pages?
I created a repository for hosting a blog on GitHub.
Is there any way that I can create additional repositories to host multiple blogs, or am I limited to just one since username.github.io can only ...
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How to return a custom object from a Spring Data JPA GROUP BY query
I'm developing a Spring Boot application with Spring Data JPA. I'm using a custom JPQL query to group by some field and get the count. Following is my repository method.
@Query(value = "select count(...
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How do I force Maven to use my local repository rather than going out to remote repos to retrieve artifacts?
I’m using Maven 3.3.3 with Java 8 on Mac Yosemite. I have a multi-module project.
<modules>
<module>first-module</module>
<module>my-module</...
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Pull request without forking?
Here are steps of code contribution from the topic "How do I contribute to other's code in GitHub?"
Fork the project
Make one or more well commented and clean commits to the repository. You can ...
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“tag already exists in the remote" error after recreating the git tag
I get the following error after I run the steps below:
To [email protected]:username/repo-name.git
! [rejected] dev -> dev (already exists)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@provider....
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Can you have additional .gitignore per directory within a single repo?
Can you create a .gitignore file in a directory that only applies to files (and directories) within that directory?
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Pull remote branch into local repo with different name?
Alright I did a little bit of research on this but I couldn't find an exact answer, so I have to ask.
I have 2 remotes: origin and repo2.
I'd like to do something like
git pull repo2 master
But ...
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Connect a local repository with a remote repository
I have a local repository. I created the whole application, but now I want to push it to a remote repository. I already have remote repo as well. How can I connect these two repositories without ...
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Git: add vs push vs commit
What is the difference between git add, push and commit?
Just a little confused coming from SVN, where "update" will 'add' stuff, and commit does a "push" and will 'add' as well
There are all ...
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How do I move a single folder from one Subversion repository to another repository?
I have a "docs" folder in a Subversion repository named "project". I've come to the conclusion that it should really be kept under a separate Subversion repository named "project_docs".
I'd like to ...
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What is included in JCenter repository in Gradle?
Please note that JCenter will switch to readonly mode. Avoid using it. jcenter() will be removed in Gradle 8.0.
From Gradle 1.7 there is a new public repository JCenter.
repositories {
jcenter()
}
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Git pull from another repository
I have a repository called Generic, which is a generic application. I have forked it into a repository called Acme, which just builds upon the application stored Generic repository and adds Acme Co ...
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Where is Maven's settings.xml located on Mac OS?
Where is Maven's settings.xml located on Mac OS?
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Heroku 'Permission denied (publickey) fatal: Could not read from remote repository' woes
I've searched around for many hours on end looking to a solution to my seemingly easy-to-fix problem. It's not that my search turned up nothing, it's that my search turned up so many different ...
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GitHub changes repository to the wrong language
I know this isn't a huge deal, but I like my GitHub to be linguistically diversified. I wrote a project in Swift and when I commit it says it's in Objective-C.
I think it might be because the Parse ...
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