Is there a command I can invoke which will count the lines changed by a specific author in a Git repository? I know that there must be ways to count the number of commits as Github does this for their Impact graph. 24 s 24 This gives some statistics about the author, modify as required. … Read more
Our Git repositories started out as parts of a single monster SVN repository where the individual projects each had their own tree like so: project1/branches /tags /trunk project2/branches /tags /trunk Obviously, it was pretty easy to move files from one to another with svn mv. But in Git, each project is in its own repository, … Read more
I tried to install a package, using install.packages(“foobarbaz”) but received the warning Warning message: package ‘foobarbaz’ is not available (for R version x.y.z) Why doesn’t R think that the package is available? See also these questions referring to specific instances of this problem: My package doesn’t work for R 2.15.2 package ‘Rbbg’ is not available … Read more
What is the purpose of gist and how is it different from regular code sharing/maintaining using GitHub? 10 s 10 GitHub is the entire site. Gists are a particular service offered on that site, namely code snippets akin to pastebin. However, everything is driven by git revision control, so gists also have complete revision histories.
I’m developing a wordpress plugin at the moment which I do not want in the WordPress plugin repository. However I still want to be able to push updates to my costumers from my own API repository. I’ve been reading quite a bit about this, and one thing that seems to be something about is the … Read more
I have four branches like master -> origin/regacy, FeatureA -> origin/FeatureA. As you can see, I typed the wrong name. So I want to rename a remote branch name (origin/regacy → origin/legacy or origin/master) I try the command below: git remote rename regacy legacy But Git console returned an error message to me. error : … Read more
We have a WordPress-based website that provides documentation to our REST API. Since our API is constantly changing, so is the documentation. However, we would like to keep the documentation version controlled so it can be matched against API commits. Is there a way to have WordPress pages get their content from a remote repository … Read more
How can I download only a specific folder or directory from a remote Git repo hosted on GitHub? Say the example GitHub repo lives here: [email protected]:foobar/Test.git Its directory structure: Test/ ├── foo/ │ ├── a.py │ └── b.py └── bar/ ├── c.py └── d.py I want to download only the foo folder and not clone … Read more
I have my Git repository which, at the root, has two sub directories: /finisht /static When this was in SVN, /finisht was checked out in one place, while /static was checked out elsewhere, like so: svn co svn+ssh://[email protected]/home/admin/repos/finisht/static static Is there a way to do this with Git? 2 25 What you are trying to … Read more
Consider the following scenario: I have developed a small experimental project A in its own Git repo. It has now matured, and I’d like A to be part of larger project B, which has its own big repository. I’d now like to add A as a subdirectory of B. How do I merge A into … Read more
