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p4merge open each window minimized when running a git diff/ merge
I've asked the question on SO before, but maybe it is better placed here.
I'm running on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (X11) and have p4merge installed in version p4v-2024.3.2656785.
I'm using p4merge since ...
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On a fresh machine, which should come first the syncing of dotfiles or installation of their libraries?
This is a bit of a newbie question but I'm only starting out my journey with dotfiles!
Suppose I have a fresh machine and I want to sync my existing dotfiles/settings from some repo.
A dotfile may or ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 ssh-agent identities not added correctly?
I have my ssh identities added at the end of the .bashrc script, as the server says here when I log in, Agent is running with pid 8411 and all of the identitias are added.
As is also evident from the ...
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Can't install git on Ubuntu 22.04 - unmet dependencies
I had git installed on my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but recently it became uninstalled somehow. git --version displays Command 'git' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install git.
Trying to ...
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ssh and git setup
I am attempting to setup a private git server on my local network and I cannot for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong. I can't seem to get ssh authentication via private key working for ...
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git diff stash@{0}^! does not work since update to Ubuntu 22.04
In Ubuntu 20.04 (containing Git 2.25.1) I could use this command to show the contents of a stash:
git diff stash@{0}^!
Since updating to Ubuntu 22.04 (containing Git 2.34.1) this does not work ...
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How can I allow Apache to read the status of my git repo?
My website reports on the Git status (current commit and branch, mostly, and also git ls-files --modified to show any files which have been modified directly on the server) so I can check at a glance ...
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Unable to generate ecdsa-sk key
Suddenly ssh stopeed working on my Ubuntu 20.04 installation. My openssh installation is: OpenSSH_8.8p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1m 14 Dec 2021
When I execute the ssh command to connect to a remote machine it ...
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Cloning from a Bitbucket server gives "git: 'http-backend' is not a git command."
When we try to clone the repo using the git tool, we get the following error. The git version we are using is 2.33.1, but there is a problem.
$ git clone http://local.com/bitbucket/scm/test/test1.git
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How to store credentials for multiple Github accounts (not individual repos) using libsecret
I'm trying to use 2 github accounts on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm also using personal-access-tokens (PAT). Following the setup I'm trying to achieve.
Have 2 github accounts - main and work on the same pc.
All ...
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why i am getting fatal error for repo init?
Earlier repo init has worked properly, but lately it is throwing below errors,
fatal: error unknown url type: https
fatal: cloning the git-repo repository failed, will remove '.repo/repo'
I have ...
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How can I get rid of this error when apt update and instal git
I'm new in Linux and i am using Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS. I am tring to install git with following steps in this site. When I run sudo apt update or sudo apt-get update command that returns this errors:
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.Xauthority, .asoundrc, .bashrc appear out of nowhere in Git repositories
The files
.Xauthority
.asoundrc
.bashrc
appear out of nowhere (I don't know when) in Git repositories. The files are not managed by Git. One of the repositories is cloned from GitHub, the other was ...
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Not changing permissions as root on git pull
I've been managing a not very big system for a few months now and there are still a couple of issues that I don't like how they're being dealt with right now.
Currently, there is practically just one ...
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`not a git repository` when following install instructions for picom (a compton fork)
I'm trying to install Picom compositor on Ubuntu and have installed all the dependencies but when I get to the "To Build" section of the guide of GitHub I have to run three commands:
$ git ...
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