github-for-windows Questions

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I am new in GitHub for Windows. I learn how to commit a single change. But i don't understand how can i commit only a part of file. On GitHub for Mac you can just select the line. How can i do it ...
Piccolo asked 29/8, 2013 at 16:43

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I am trying to push a MERN stack repository on my GitHub but the client folder is saved as a shortcut, I have tried deleting the git folder inside the client but still it won't work What I have tr...
Erysipelas asked 13/8, 2021 at 6:15

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Here is a little bit background: I run Win7 I have private git repo and installed Github for Windows I didn't like the Github for Windows client (lack capabilities). I installed TortoiseGit for Wi...
Lp asked 13/2, 2013 at 7:11

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I have executed the line below to switch to a new branch created by my teammate: git checkout with-backend I'm receiving the error below: error: pathspec 'with-backend' did not match any file(s) ...
Casework asked 13/7, 2021 at 3:38

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$ git pull origin master fatal: unable to access 'https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx': error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: C:/Users/abc/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/usr/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt ...
Reveille asked 29/12, 2015 at 11:26

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I'm trying to get the GitHub client for Windows working. I am on a corporate Windows 7 x64 computer behind a corporate proxy and firewall. Following various other posts and experimenting with multi...
Uncivilized asked 22/4, 2013 at 17:47

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I have a local repository (has a local remote-origin file://<remote>). How do I change the displayed name of this repository in the Github desktop app without having to rename the repository ...
Publicness asked 4/6, 2016 at 22:13

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I received a large project. Client wanted to add it to github. I was adding bit by bit. Then what happened was I got greedy and added too many files at once. Now, no matter what I try, I keep getti...
Chummy asked 14/4, 2021 at 5:51

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I can not create origin remotely with remote command: $ git remote add origin https://github.com/LongKnight/git-basics.git fatal: remote origin already exists. To solve the error, I have tried t...
Carlow asked 21/8, 2014 at 7:19

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I am trying to pull from a repository in Github. But I don't want to clone the master branch. I want to clone some other branch. When I try git clone <url>, I get the files from the master br...
Excitability asked 29/6, 2013 at 18:6

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In our project we often forget to update version numbers in Package.json file. Ours is a AngularJS project. In our package JSON file we are specifying the below two version information "version": ...
Shayneshays asked 25/3, 2016 at 5:33

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I am trying to push files to my remote repository from my local repository and I see this fatal error : fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/vinivasundharan/abcd.git/': Couldn't resolve h...
Hayseed asked 12/11, 2015 at 9:8

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I'm a bit puzzled by this... I have two branches that have the same series of commits in both of them. The true history is that they were authored by my colleague, committed and pushed to github ...
Pepsin asked 26/4, 2013 at 14:35

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I recently changed my username on github (so that everything redirects to a new URL on my username) I got this error through a cmd line git push You must verify your email address Fatal: The req...
Graaf asked 7/8, 2017 at 15:59

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New to working with git in Windows. I downloaded the GitHub Desktop application and can connect my account, but doing pushes/pulls fails because of an unresolved host. Asking around the workplace I...
Bindery asked 27/7, 2016 at 14:1

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The normal GitHub flow to contribute to a repo is to create a fork of the upstream, clone a local copy where you make changes, then push back up to your fork and then create a PR to have your chang...
Ordonez asked 1/6, 2019 at 18:28

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How do you run stash in GitHub Desktop on Windows? The feature is available in Sourcetree but I'm unable to find it in GitHub Desktop.
Lemmy asked 17/5, 2017 at 3:0

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I have just installed Windows 10, Visual Studio Community 2015, and Git for Windows. I also installed the latest Bitbucket and GitHub extensions. Within Visual Studio I cloned my Bitbucket.com-hos...
Jenisejenkel asked 26/11, 2018 at 8:49

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I want to commit all files except for one file. Can I do that using the GitHub for Windows client or do I need to use the command line? If I need to use the command line, how do I use it?
Brasier asked 30/10, 2014 at 7:33

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I had the error: “error: Sparse checkout leaves no entry on the working directory” when trying to set up a sparse checkout in git on windows. I've answered my own question after researching the ...
Leipzig asked 25/4, 2014 at 9:18

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Can anyone please tell me why i have the grey icon when i push my files to github ? In side the app directory, there should be models, views , and controllers but in the remote GitHub I can't click...
Leftist asked 25/10, 2013 at 7:57

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GitHub distributes a simplified Git client for Windows they call GitHub for Windows; it authenticates via GitHub account, and although it usually uses HTTPS remotes for local repositories it create...
Kadner asked 26/11, 2013 at 19:25

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When I cloned a remote repository, I used the following command- git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git After that, when I did a git branch -l it just showed me the ...
Arron asked 7/7, 2013 at 17:32

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I downloaded and installed the programs offered by GitHub including Git Shell. The problem is that I want to set up the home directory of the Git Shell program to a custom one, but I don't know ho...
Taproot asked 10/9, 2013 at 19:8

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The github Desktop program has an automatic naming scheme for local repositories, and I can't find a way to change them manually. Consider this screenshot of the sidebar, with 4 identical names...
Frankel asked 4/11, 2015 at 23:5

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