msysgit Questions

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How do I use Notepad++ (or any other editor besides vim) with msysgit? I tried all of the following to no avail: git config --global core.editor C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe git conf...
Kinross asked 27/10, 2009 at 22:59

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I use msysgit on my windows machine for Git. I have TortoiseGit installed mainly because I like TortoiseMerge and the log feature. Most of the time, when I use git mergetool to resolve merge confli...
Logarithmic asked 31/5, 2013 at 21:1

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I'm trying to use git's new (as of git 1.7.11) directory diff command with Beyond Compare 3 as the difftool, but the temporary files are not being created. For example: git difftool --dir-diff &l...
Thaler asked 9/11, 2012 at 15:32

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I'm trying to access a repository on Github from a Windows machine that is behind a proxy that requires NTLM authentication. Neither SSH nor the git:// protocol are directly available, so I'm tryin...
Twofaced asked 20/2, 2011 at 22:14

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I'm using Git Bash in Windows and for the purposes of my custom git log format, I'd like to modify the terminal's exact RGB color values so I can fine-tune the color outputs. My git log format is a...
Gualterio asked 20/1, 2014 at 20:8

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I'm using msysgit and have a project tree that contains many bin/ folders in the tree. Using the .gitignore file in the root of the project I need to ignore all .dll files that reside within a bin/...
Episcopalian asked 9/6, 2009 at 17:35

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I have cygwin and msysgit on my computer. I am trying to clone a repository for a vim package with this command: cd ~/.vim/bundle git clone https://github.com/jelera/vim-javascript-syntax.git Ho...
Cottbus asked 21/6, 2018 at 17:3

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I'm trying to use git to more effectively manage working on project which uses CVS for its source control, but I'm having problems add-ing a file which has a very long path indeed - 276 characters....
Clarissaclarisse asked 14/2, 2011 at 13:17

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I have successfully installed and configured msysGit Portable on my flash drive, and have used it to pull and push GitHub repos. However, I seem to always have to kludge the SSH support. Specifical...
Lahnda asked 11/8, 2010 at 1:56

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When I try adding textures and text files to my repo it all works, but when I try adding a .blend file I get this error. I've tried a bunch of things I found here and on google, none of them worked...
Chatterbox asked 17/8, 2012 at 16:21

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Is there a definitive list of commands anywhere that cause git gc --auto to run? The git-gc(1) man page simply states: --auto With this option, git gc checks whether any housekeeping is required; ...
Duramen asked 28/2, 2011 at 1:42

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Has anyone ever made Meld work with Git on Windows? I am trying to make it work and I have no success. I have Meld installed and when I call it from the command line with two files as parameters ...
Island asked 27/11, 2013 at 9:45

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So, I always thought that with core.autocrlf=true Git replaces all LF endings with CRLF when checking out the file into the working directory. From the Git book: If you’re on a Windows machine,...
Cowskin asked 22/4, 2015 at 9:32

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Using Git Bash on Windows, if I create a bash script, where do I put it so that I can access it from the bash shell? Basically, I want to create a bash shell script that does some stuff with files...
Merrillmerrily asked 20/8, 2010 at 17:14

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I want to add Python support in Vim in Git Bash, how do I do this? I get false when running: :echo has('python')
Meza asked 4/11, 2015 at 10:47

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When I attempt to run certain commands (like git push, for example) from a git Bash on Windows 7 (64bit) I get the error: The program can't start because libiconv2.dll is missing from your compute...
Pintle asked 7/8, 2010 at 17:25

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I recently started getting the following git error on git svn fetch or git svn rebase, but other local git commands are working fine: Following is the detailed error message: C:\Git\bin\perl.exe:...
Foretooth asked 10/1, 2014 at 18:36

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I'm on Windows 7 trying to use a batch file to open the GitBash shell and make a git call. This is the contents of my batch file: REM Open GitBash C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program File...
Reducer asked 5/3, 2011 at 12:10

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How do i get git to show command-line help in windows? I'm using msysgit 1.7.4. It's defaulting to open the html help in the browser. I just want to show the text help on the console. I've seen...
Uriah asked 1/4, 2011 at 18:50

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I am very new to Git and I have a slight problem. In SVN [this feels like an Only Fools and Horses story by uncle Albert.."during the war..."] when I wanted to update a production site with my lat...
Ouster asked 8/6, 2010 at 13:18

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Assuming I have a test.sh script that runs a server and Git Bash installed, how do I create a Windows shortcut that I can double click to run tesh.sh in Git Bash in the foreground and allows me to ...
Rawden asked 4/2, 2014 at 21:51

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I'm looking to change the 'red' font color in git to something that is more towards pink. I tend to keep my monitors pretty dim, and whenever I look through diffs, the red font on the black backgro...
Burchfield asked 7/3, 2011 at 23:36

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I am using git as my revision control system. To do so, I installed msysGit to checkout my repositories on MSW. Now I want to compile my programs with MinGW and found this "problem" for me: When I...
Yodel asked 4/5, 2011 at 14:53

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I have found articles regarding how to install Git on a Windows server and use SSH (such as CopSSH) for authentication. I am a little surprised by this as I remember reading that one should not use...
Lil asked 1/12, 2010 at 22:20

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I love git and use it on OS X pretty much constantly at home. At work, we use svn on Windows, but want to migrate to git as soon as the tools have fully matured (not just TortoiseGit, but also some...
Spermatocyte asked 14/5, 2010 at 16:21

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