Bower install using only https?
You can make git replace the protocol for you. Just run: git config –global url.”https://”.insteadOf git:// to use HTTPS protocol instead of Git.
git-clone
What is git doing when it says it is “resolving deltas”?
The stages of git clone are: Receive a “pack” file of all the objects in the repo database Create an index file for the received pack Check out the head revision (for a non-bare repo, obviously) “Resolving deltas” is the message shown for the second stage, indexing the pack file (“git index-pack”). Pack files do … Read more
How to clone git repository from its zip
A related post here provides the information needed to grab the .git directory and simplify the answer that umläute provided: Grab the .git directory by cloning a bare repository $ mkdir repo $ git clone –bare http://github/user/repo repo Make the .git directory and move the cloned files $ mkdir repo/.git $ mv repo/* repo/.git Unzip … Read more
git clone from another directory
cd /d c:\ git clone C:\folder1 folder2 From the documentation for git clone: For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following syntaxes may be used: /path/to/repo.git/ file:///path/to/repo.git/ These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies –local option.
Git clone without .git directory
Use git clone –depth=1 –branch=master git://someserver/somerepo dirformynewrepo rm -rf ./dirformynewrepo/.git The depth option will make sure to copy the least bit of history possible to get that repo. The branch option is optional and if not specified would get the default branch. The second line will make your directory dirformynewrepo not a Git repository any … Read more
How to get Git to clone into current directory
simply put a dot next to it git clone [email protected]:user/my-project.git . From git help clone: Cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty. So make sure the directory is empty (check with ls -a), otherwise the command will fail.
Why Isn’t There A Git Clone Specific Commit Option?
Two answers so far (at the time I wrote this, now there are more) are correct in what they say, but don’t really answer the “why” question. Of course, the “why” question is really hard to answer, except by the authors of the various bits of Git (and even then, what if two frequent Git … Read more
Unable to Connect to GitHub.com For Cloning
You are probably behind a firewall. Try cloning via https – that has a higher chance of not being blocked: git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git
How to clone all repos at once from GitHub?
On Windows and all UNIX/LINUX systems, using Git Bash or any other Terminal, replace YOURUSERNAME by your username and use: CNTX={users|orgs}; NAME={username|orgname}; PAGE=1 curl “https://api.github.com/$CNTX/$NAME/repos?page=$PAGE&per_page=100″ | grep -e ‘clone_url*’ | cut -d \” -f 4 | xargs -L1 git clone Set CNTX=users and NAME=yourusername, to download all your repositories. Set CNTX=orgs and NAME=yourorgname, to download … Read more
git-clone and post-checkout hook
I suppose you could make a custom installation – rename the hooks in …/share/git-core/templates/hooks to remove the .sample suffix. You could also make a template directory full of symlinks to a hooks directory inside the repository, (e.g. post-checkout -> ../../hooks/post-checkout). Then if the cloned repo contained that particular hook, it’d get executed. You’re right, though, … Read more