I am trying to install BuildTools 1.18 with Java 18 in linux, following this tutorial. When I try to compile with java -jar BuildTools.jar –rev latest as instructed, it gives me this error: Here is the full output (before the error): I have git configured and tried running git init, but that didn’…
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Git push asks username & password for HTTP repo origin
I am working on a project of mine and I got the codes uploaded in github. I started working in this project from Win10 os and currently I’m working in Arch linux. In windows it didn’t use to ask me for any password but it does now. I’ve never pushed from my linux before. Today when I tried t…
How to go back to the Working Directory that was not committed
I forgot to commit on the directory where I was working and then I checkout to the previous commit and now I want to back to the directory where I used to work. What can i do ? Answer If your checkout of the previous version somehow deleted your folder, which was not added/committed, then you would need to re…
Show mtime of a file in another branch
Using git ls-files –debug or stat command, you can see the mtime (last modified time) of a file in a current branch (strictly in a current commit). Then is there any way to see this information for the same file in another branch (another commit)? Workarounds Currently I have two workarounds, both of wh…
Can’t change git default branch to main on the command line
I’ve read on several sites that you can use git config –global init.defaultBranch main to change the default branch (from master) to main. But it doesn’t work for me. Here it’s from my terminal (my os is ubuntu): Answer The option init.defaultBranch was introduced in Git version 2.28. …
Why not able to push the new added files on remote repository?
I am new to Git. I have recently created a repository and uploaded a folder in it using the following sequence of commands: This was my first time when I uploaded the files to this repository. Now I am trying to upload more files to this repository using the following commands: But, I am getting the following…
Filter output of git diff-tree based on file extension
gives me the list all the files that were committed for that SHA. I am looking for a way to get a list of files with only .xml or .html extensions. I checked the documentation page – here and couldn’t see any option. Any help is greatly appreciated. Answer You can use — <path> [<oth…
Can’t Fix Broken Git installation on Ubuntu
I was trying to install git on ubuntu, but there is an error when I try to install or fix broken git installation. This is the error: I tried other possibles solutions, I will list here: apt –fix-broken install. Error: The same problem as above. apt purge git. Show me to make an apt fix broken install s…
Using git diff to replicate changes in another directory
I have multiple websites structured (simplified) as follows under a single GIT repository: I did some amendments in /site-1/index.js, /site-1/package.json and added a file /site-1/changes.md. The changes were done in 2 separate git commit in a feature branch called feature/carousel. I want to apply the same c…
Failed to archieve Gitolite (Git) and nginx webserver access webspace at the same time
Starting point: Ubuntu 20.04 Gitolite (/home/git/) Webspace /var/www/webspace (usually owned by www-data:www-data) Git user (in www-data group and also tried without beeing in group) I want to update the webspace as git user with post-receive to a www-data directory. I had it archived before I installed Gitol…