Questions tagged [pull]
19 questions
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Can I delete my fork before the pull request gets accepted?
I made a fork of a project on github, did a small correction and submitted a pull request. However, from every pull request “in line”, I can see that this developer will take a long time before reviewing mine. The thing is I don’t want the…
user137369
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Can checkout and track git branch, but cannot pull
So we have a branch in our git repo called creative_market. I run the command git checkout --track origin/creative_market which works fine. All of the changes that should be on the creative_market branch are present. However, if I run git pull I get…
Mike Lentini
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Git pulling without root access
On a Ubuntu Server 10.10 box, I seem to require root access to use git pull (in my /var/www directory). error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied.
I have tried chmodding 0777 /var/www and /var/www/.git, and chowning both of these to my…
JJJollyjim
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git submodule foreach git pull origin master vs. git pull --recursive-submodules
I manage a repository with several submodules. For a while now I've been using
$ git submodule foreach git pull origin master
to pull in the latest changes for all of these guys. However, recently I learned about
$ git pull…
Ncat
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deciphering Git pull message
minnymouse@XXXXXXX /c/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXX (development)
$ git status
On branch development
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/development' by 2 commits.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working tree…
yaris
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Git pull/fetch doesn't seem to work
I am using git over hamachi vpn and am able to clone the remote repository.
However, git pull/fetch fails after hanging for a long time.
The error message displayed is:
Write failed: Broken pipe …
sud03r
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Git suddenly started to choke on “git pull” for only one repo
Yesterday, at some point in time, my Git for Windows suddenly started to choke (hang forever) on git pull for only one repo. I managed to pull changes ten times this day, I started to fail on eleventh pull.
Since the same happend to TortoiseGit, and…
trejder
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git pull returns "not a git repository" error
I am attempting to pull my code from a remote repo. When I run 'git pull' I get the following message:
$ git pull
root@gohyperspace.com's password:
fatal: 'var/www/html' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote…
Chris
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how to go back after a bad git pull
I had created a shallow clone of a huge repository (for saving my time) using
git clone --depth=1 ...
Some days later, I thought I'd fetch the latest commits from the remote repository. I entered
git pull
but it started downloading a lot more info…
debamitro
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GIT : I keep having to merge my new branch
I have created a new branch and I'm working on it with others dev but for reasons when I want to push my new commits I always have to git merge origin/mynewbranch
Otherwise I'm getting some errors:
! [rejected] mynewbranch -> mynewbranch…
mnml
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Tuleap git pull request
In my Tuleap installation I don't see the Pull Request option with the git repository as mentioned in the user guide. what could be the problem ?
No Pull Request Option beside git URL
We don't want to use Gerrit, rather just Tuleap git tools are…
Mian Imran
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Why can't I pull w/ TortoiseGit w/o entering a password?
Some time ago I had to reinstall my work PC, following migration from Win 7 to Win 10. Previously I had a perfectly working setup of Git, using the Cygwin command and TortoiseGit in parallel.
After the reinstallation, I can no longer perform the git…
ysap
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Malloc failed upon git pull
I get this error trying to git pull:
$git pull origin master
remote: Counting objects: 91, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (79/79), done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 2445656885 bytes)
fatal: unpack-objects…
user329443
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git pull using shell script
I have a shell script that pulls my repository from git.
Normally, it receives the credentials and the pull works just fine.
My question is what happens if the credentials are wrong and I get an authentication failure. How can I catch this error and…
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How do I quickly 'extract' specific information from web pages (source code) and format it into XML?
The gist: the small company I work for advertises its products through Google Merchant. We upload the products in an XML file as per Google's requirements.
The problem: manually formatting thousands of products into XML is an arduous task. What I…
MrT
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