I followed [these instructions](https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git) to the letter, including the part about password caching. It seems like the instructions are wrong, because every time I `git push origin master` I get this error:

    git: &#39;credential-cache&#39; is not a git command. See &#39;get --help&#39;.

... at which point I am forced to enter my username and password. After doing so, I am presented with the same error message again, followed by the output from `git push`.

Here is the contents of my .gitconfig file:

    [user]
        name = myusername
        email = myusername@myemaildomain.com
    [credential]
        helper = cache

To be clear, after I installed Git and ran Git Bash, here is exactly what I typed:

    git config --global user.name &quot;myusername&quot;
    git config --global user.email &quot;myusername@myemaildomain.com&quot;
    git config --global credential.helper cache

Please help. This is so frustrating!

git: &#39;credential-cache&#39; is not a git command

I have a git repo hooked up in phpstorm on windows. I committed a few change sets then pushed them to our &quot;central repo&quot;. After this I have then made a few more commits. I no longer want these commits that have not been pushed to the central repo. How do I clean my working copy to be the same as the central repo (origin)?

Git revert local commit

I managed to create a little mess in my local git repository. I was trying to fix a broken commit by using the [following instructions][1]. Before running the &quot;git commit --amend&quot; (and after the git rebase --interactive) I decided that my changes were incorrect and so I executed &quot;git reset HEAD --hard&quot;. Not a good idea, I tell you.

Now the interactive rebase seems to be &quot;stuck&quot;. Git shows the current branch as (|REBASE-m). Every command (cd .., ls, git rebase...) inside my repository gives the following error:

&gt; cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory

Here&#39;s how git rebase --abort looks like:

    $ git rebase --abort
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/quiet: No such file or directory
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/orig-head: No such file or directory
    HEAD is now at 4c737fb Revert &quot;Modified file names&quot;
    rm: cannot remove `c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/done&#39;: Permission denied
    rm: cannot remove directory `c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge&#39;: Directory
    not empty
    cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory

Here&#39;s the result of git rebase --continue:

    $ git rebase --continue
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/prev_head: No such file or directory
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/end: No such file or directory
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/msgnum: No such file or directory
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/onto: No such file or directory
    cat: c:/_work/project/src/git/.git/rebase-merge/quiet: No such file or directory
    prev_head must be defined
    cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory

Any ideas? I would like to reset the situation back to the state it was before I started my well-thought rebase operation.

Here&#39;s how git log --oneline shows the situation:

    4c737fb Revert &quot;Modified file names&quot;
    247ac02 Modified file names
    33141e6 Message modifications
    10a4a04 Modified db script

And this is fine. 

I&#39;m using msysgit v1.7.0.2.

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1186535/how-to-modify-a-specified-commit

How to fix &quot;corrupted&quot; interactive rebase?

I&#39;ve got Git for Windows setup (msysgit) and it was working fine for the last few days and today I&#39;ve encountered an odd error. 

When issuing a Git command in the Windows Command Prompt or in the Git Bash that comes bundled with msysgit, I get a strange &#39;(END)&#39; line appear and then I cannot issue any other comamnds.

![alt text][1]

At this point all I get are system beeps.

Any ideas?

Thanks, P.


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Eo7O9.png

Git Windows Command Prompt gets stuck during Git commands with (END)

Assuming I have a test.sh script that runs a server and Git Bash installed, how do I create a Windows shortcut that I can double click to run tesh.sh in Git Bash in the foreground and allows me to see the output of the server?



Windows shortcut to run a Git Bash script

I&#39;m having trouble getting post-recieve and post-commit hooks to work correctly with msysgit (Windows 7 Pro/32 and Ultimate/64). For post-commit hook I get the above error if I commit from either git-bash or the console, but it works fine if I commit through git-gui. For a post-recieve hook, all three give the same error. 

I&#39;m thinking this is some sort of permission or path error, but don&#39;t really have any clue where to start here.



msysgit error with hooks: &quot;git error: cannot spawn .git/hooks/post-commit: No such file or directory&quot;

I&#39;m using the Git Bash in Windows and for the purposes of my custom `git log` format, I&#39;d like to modify the terminal&#39;s exact RGB color values so I can fine-tune the color outputs. My git log format is as follows in my global `.gitconfig`:

    lg1 = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:&#39;%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset)%x09%C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset) %C(dim white)%an%C(reset) - %C(white)%s%C(reset)&#39; --branches --remotes --tags

I&#39;d like to define in Git Bash what RGB value actually maps to &#39;blue&#39;, for example. Any idea how I can do this? Step by step instructions would be wonderful. Thanks in advance.

EDIT
----
I setup my .bashrc and it isn&#39;t working for some reason. Colors aren&#39;t changing :-(. Here is a script I ran to see colors: http://pastebin.com/9EsYmGCj and the result: http://i.imgur.com/1dJ3o1a.png

How to change RGB colors in Git Bash for windows?

I&#39;m on Windows 7 trying to use a batch file to open the GitBash shell and make a git call.
This is the contents of my batch file:

    REM Open GitBash 
    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c &quot;&quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe&quot; --login -i&quot;
    REM retrieve archive
    git archive master | tar -x -C %~1
    REM quit GitBash
    exit

I noticed that the GitBash is logging out before the next command &quot;git archive...&quot;. Does anybody know if I can pass the command into GitBash and how?

Mike

How do I write a batch file which opens the GitBash shell and runs a command in the shell?

I have been bitten by the Windows/Linux line-ending issue with git.  It seems, via GitHub, MSysGit, and other sources, that the best solution is to have your local repos set to use linux-style line endings, but set `core.autocrlf` to `true`.  Unfortunately, I didn&#39;t do this early enough, so now every time I pull changes the line endings are borked.

I thought I had found an answer [here][1] but I can&#39;t get it to work for me.  My Linux command line knowledge is limited at best, so i am not even sure what the &quot;xargs fromdos&quot; line does in his script.  I keep getting messages about no such file or directory existing, and when I manage to point it to an existing directory, it tells me I don&#39;t have permissions. 

I&#39;ve tried this with MSysGit on Windows and via the Mac OS X terminal.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011985/line-endings-messed-up-in-git-how-to-track-changes-from-another-branch-after-a/1060828#1060828

Trying to fix line-endings with git filter-branch, but having no luck

Recently I&#39;ve been unable to clone or push to github, and I&#39;m trying to find the root cause.

*This is on windows*

I have cygwin + git as well as msysgit.

Msysgit was installed with the following options:

 - OpenSSH
 - Use Git from Windows Command Prompt

That gives me 4 environments to try to use git in:

 - Windows cmd prompt
 - Powershell
 - Git Bash
 - Cygwin

Somehow I&#39;ve managed to get myself into a position where when I try to clone a repository using msysgit, cmd.exe, or Powershell, I get the following error:

    &gt; Initialized empty Git repository in
    &gt; C:/sandbox/SomeProject/.git/
    &gt; @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
    &gt; @    WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
    &gt; @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
    &gt; Permissions 0644 for
    &gt; &#39;/c/Users/Ben/.ssh/id_rsa&#39; are too
    &gt; open. It is recommended that your
    &gt; private key files are NOT accessible
    &gt; by others. This private key will be
    &gt; ignored. bad permissions: ignore key:
    &gt; /c/Users/Ben/.ssh/id_rsa Permission
    &gt; denied (publickey). fatal: The remote
    &gt; end hung up unexpectedly


This is using the .ssh folder in my c:\users\ben\ folder, which is what is used by msysgit. *I suspect cygwin works because the .ssh folder is located elsewhere, but I&#39;m not sure why*

In Git Bash, I check the permissions:

    $ ls -l -a ~/.ssh

Which gives me:

    drwxr-xr-x    2 Ben      Administ        0 Oct 12 13:09 .    
    drwxr-xr-x   34 Ben      Administ     8192 Oct 12 13:15 ..    
    -rw-r--r--    1 Ben      Administ     1743 Oct 12 12:36 id_rsa
    -rw-r--r--    1 Ben      Administ      399 Oct 12 12:36 id_rsa.pub    
    -rw-r--r--    1 Ben      Administ      407 Oct 12 13:09 known_hosts

These permissions are apparently too relaxed.  How they got this way, I have no idea.

I can try to change them...

    $ chmod -v -R 600 ~/.ssh

which tells me:

    mode of `.ssh&#39; changed to 0600 (rw-------)
    mode of `.ssh/id_rsa&#39; changed to 0600 (rw-------)
    mode of `.ssh/id_rsa.pub&#39; changed to 0600 (rw-------)
    mode of `.ssh/known_hosts&#39; changed to 0600 (rw-------)

But it seems to have no effect.  I still get the same error, and doing 

    $ ls -l -a ~/.ssh

yields the same permissions as before.

**UPDATE:**

I tried to fix the permissions to those files in cygwin, and cygwin reports their permissions correctly, gitbash does not:
![alt text][1]


Any ideas on how I can really fix these permissions?


  [1]: http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c54102/app7962031255448924.jpg

SSH Private Key Permissions using Git GUI or ssh-keygen are too open

How do I use Notepad++ (or any other editor besides vim) with msysgit?

I tried all of the following to no avail:

    git config --global core.editor C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe

    git config --global core.editor &quot;C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe&quot;

    git config --global core.editor C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe

    git config --global core.editor C:\\Program Files\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe

How do I use Notepad++ (or other) with msysgit?

Is there a file or menu that will let me change the settings on how to deal with line endings?

I read there are 3 options:

1. **Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style**
  
 Git will convert LF to CRLF when checking out text files. When
 committing text files, CRLF will be converted to LF. For
 cross-platform projects, this is the recommended setting on Windows
 (&quot;core.autocrlf&quot; is set to &quot;true&quot;)

2. **Checkout as-is, commit Unix-style**
  
 Git will not perform any conversion when checking out text files.
 When committing text files, CRLF will be converted to LF. For
 cross-platform projects this is the recommended setting on Unix
 (&quot;core.autocrlf&quot; is set to &quot;input&quot;).

3. **Checkout as-is, commit as-is**
  
 Git will not perform any conversions when checking out or committing
 text files. Choosing this option is not recommended for cross-platform
 projects (&quot;core.autocrlf&quot; is set to &quot;false&quot;)

How to change line-ending settings

I am not even sure I am asking the right question. Let me explain my situation:

This is about Git on Windows&amp;nbsp;7.

My company sets up the Windows user directory on a network drive, not on the local hard drive (for backup and other purposes beyond the scope of this question). I cannot change that policy.

I CAN have local files outside of that scheme however and that is how my Apache server is set up. Entirely local.

I installed Git. It installs Bash. When I fire up Bash and `cd ~` (change to the root directory) I find that it (the Bash root) points to my network user directory. I want it not to do that. I want  `~` to be elsewhere on my hard drive. I want it so that when I perform other operations such as installing a certificate, an SSH key, etc. its defaults will not automatically use that network directory.

I have searched in vain everywhere, and all I can find refers to answers that involve aliases, redirection, and the location $HOME points to. But that is not what I want at all.

The question is: Can I change that directory? And if so: How?

**UPDATE: So, $HOME is what I need to modify. However I have been unable to find where this mythical $HOME variable is set so I assumed it was a Linux system version of PATH or something. *Anyway*...**

I do have a &quot;profile&quot; file under `git/etc`. Here are the contents (notice no $HOME):

      # To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all
      # copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the
      # public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty.
      # You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along
      # with this software.
      # If not, see &lt;http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/&gt;.


      # System-wide profile file

      # Some resources...
      # Customizing Your Shell: http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_5.html#SEC69
      # Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration:
      #   http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
      # The Linux Documentation Project: http://www.tldp.org/
      # The Linux Cookbook: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/
      # Greg&#39;s Wiki http://mywiki.wooledge.org/

      # Setup some default paths. Note that this order will allow user installed
      # software to override &#39;system&#39; software.
      # Modifying these default path settings can be done in different ways.
      # To learn more about startup files, refer to your shell&#39;s man page.

      MSYS2_PATH=&quot;/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin&quot;
      MANPATH=&quot;/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/share/man:${MANPATH}&quot;
      INFOPATH=&quot;/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:/share/info:${INFOPATH}&quot;
      MINGW_MOUNT_POINT=
      if [ -n &quot;$MSYSTEM&quot; ]
      then
        case &quot;$MSYSTEM&quot; in
          MINGW32)
            MINGW_MOUNT_POINT=/mingw32
            PATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/bin:${MSYS2_PATH}:${PATH}&quot;
            PKG_CONFIG_PATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/lib/pkgconfig:${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/share/pkgconfig&quot;
            ACLOCAL_PATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/share/aclocal:/usr/share/aclocal&quot;
            MANPATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/share/man:${MANPATH}&quot;
          ;;
          MINGW64)
            MINGW_MOUNT_POINT=/mingw64
            PATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/bin:${MSYS2_PATH}:${PATH}&quot;
            PKG_CONFIG_PATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/lib/pkgconfig:${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/share/pkgconfig&quot;
            ACLOCAL_PATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/share/aclocal:/usr/share/aclocal&quot;
            MANPATH=&quot;${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/share/man:${MANPATH}&quot;
          ;;
          MSYS)
            PATH=&quot;${MSYS2_PATH}:/opt/bin:${PATH}&quot;
            PKG_CONFIG_PATH=&quot;/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/lib/pkgconfig&quot;
          ;;
          *)
            PATH=&quot;${MSYS2_PATH}:${PATH}&quot;
          ;;
        esac
      else
        PATH=&quot;${MSYS2_PATH}:${PATH}&quot;
      fi

      MAYBE_FIRST_START=false
      SYSCONFDIR=&quot;${SYSCONFDIR:=/etc}&quot;

      # TMP and TEMP as defined in the Windows environment must be kept
      # for windows apps, even if started from msys2. However, leaving
      # them set to the default Windows temporary directory or unset
      # can have unexpected consequences for msys2 apps, so we define
      # our own to match GNU/Linux behaviour.
      ORIGINAL_TMP=$TMP
      ORIGINAL_TEMP=$TEMP
      #unset TMP TEMP
      #tmp=$(cygpath -w &quot;$ORIGINAL_TMP&quot; 2&gt; /dev/null)
      #temp=$(cygpath -w &quot;$ORIGINAL_TEMP&quot; 2&gt; /dev/null)
      #TMP=&quot;/tmp&quot;
      #TEMP=&quot;/tmp&quot;
      case &quot;$TMP&quot; in *\\*) TMP=&quot;$(cygpath -m &quot;$TMP&quot;)&quot;;; esac
      case &quot;$TEMP&quot; in *\\*) TEMP=&quot;$(cygpath -m &quot;$TEMP&quot;)&quot;;; esac
      test -d &quot;$TMPDIR&quot; || test ! -d &quot;$TMP&quot; || {
        TMPDIR=&quot;$TMP&quot;
        export TMPDIR
      }


      # Define default printer
      p=&#39;/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Windows/Device&#39;
      if [ -e &quot;${p}&quot; ] ; then
        read -r PRINTER &lt; &quot;${p}&quot;
        PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*}
      fi
      unset p

      print_flags ()
      {
        (( $1 &amp; 0x0002 )) &amp;&amp; echo -n &quot;binary&quot; || echo -n &quot;text&quot;
        (( $1 &amp; 0x0010 )) &amp;&amp; echo -n &quot;,exec&quot;
        (( $1 &amp; 0x0040 )) &amp;&amp; echo -n &quot;,cygexec&quot;
        (( $1 &amp; 0x0100 )) &amp;&amp; echo -n &quot;,notexec&quot;
      }

      # Shell dependent settings
      profile_d ()
      {
        local file=
        for file in $(export LC_COLLATE=C; echo /etc/profile.d/*.$1); do
          [ -e &quot;${file}&quot; ] &amp;&amp; . &quot;${file}&quot;
        done

        if [ -n ${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT} ]; then
          for file in $(export LC_COLLATE=C; echo ${MINGW_MOUNT_POINT}/etc/profile.d/*.$1); do
            [ -e &quot;${file}&quot; ] &amp;&amp; . &quot;${file}&quot;
          done
        fi
      }

      for postinst in $(export LC_COLLATE=C; echo /etc/post-install/*.post); do
        [ -e &quot;${postinst}&quot; ] &amp;&amp; . &quot;${postinst}&quot;
      done

      if [ ! &quot;x${BASH_VERSION}&quot; = &quot;x&quot; ]; then
        HOSTNAME=&quot;$(/usr/bin/hostname)&quot;
        profile_d sh
        [ -f &quot;/etc/bash.bashrc&quot; ] &amp;&amp; . &quot;/etc/bash.bashrc&quot;
      elif [ ! &quot;x${KSH_VERSION}&quot; = &quot;x&quot; ]; then
        typeset -l HOSTNAME=&quot;$(/usr/bin/hostname)&quot;
        profile_d sh
        PS1=$(print &#39;\033]0;${PWD}\n\033[32m${USER}@${HOSTNAME} \033[33m${PWD/${HOME}/~}\033[0m\n$ &#39;)
      elif [ ! &quot;x${ZSH_VERSION}&quot; = &quot;x&quot; ]; then
        HOSTNAME=&quot;$(/usr/bin/hostname)&quot;
        profile_d zsh
        PS1=&#39;(%n@%m)[%h] %~ %% &#39;
      elif [ ! &quot;x${POSH_VERSION}&quot; = &quot;x&quot; ]; then
        HOSTNAME=&quot;$(/usr/bin/hostname)&quot;
        PS1=&quot;$ &quot;
      else
        HOSTNAME=&quot;$(/usr/bin/hostname)&quot;
        profile_d sh
        PS1=&quot;$ &quot;
      fi

      if [ -n &quot;$ACLOCAL_PATH&quot; ]
      then
        export ACLOCAL_PATH
      fi

      export PATH MANPATH INFOPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH USER TMP TEMP PRINTER HOSTNAME PS1 SHELL tmp temp
      test -n &quot;$TERM&quot; || export TERM=xterm-256color

      if [ &quot;$MAYBE_FIRST_START&quot; = &quot;true&quot; ]; then
        sh /usr/bin/regen-info.sh

        if [ -f &quot;/usr/bin/update-ca-trust&quot; ]
        then
          sh /usr/bin/update-ca-trust
        fi

        clear
        echo
        echo
        echo &quot;###################################################################&quot;
        echo &quot;#                                                                 #&quot;
        echo &quot;#                                                                 #&quot;
        echo &quot;#                   C   A   U   T   I   O   N                     #&quot;
        echo &quot;#                                                                 #&quot;
        echo &quot;#                  This is first start of MSYS2.                  #&quot;
        echo &quot;#       You MUST restart shell to apply necessary actions.        #&quot;
        echo &quot;#                                                                 #&quot;
        echo &quot;#                                                                 #&quot;
        echo &quot;###################################################################&quot;
        echo
        echo
      fi
      unset MAYBE_FIRST_START



Change the location of the ~ directory in a Windows install of Git Bash

My friends and I are trying to setup Git for Windows using the tutorial *[Git Server: Gitosis and Cygwin on Windows][1]*, but we just keep running into problems. 

What would a &quot;Setup Git Server&quot; guide for Windows using [msysgit][2] be like?

There is a comment in the tutorial above suggesting it can&#39;t be done with msysgit because gitosis requires the use of an SSH Server and Bash? What is a step by step guide (as there is not one available)?

1. Install mysisgit

2. ?


  [1]: http://www.markembling.info/blog/view/git-server-gitosis-and-cygwin-on-windows
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#Portability

Setup a Git server with msysgit on Windows

I&#39;m using [msysgit][1] running on Windows XP.

Tried &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;V&lt;/kbd&gt;, Right click, Middle click, google... no luck.


  [1]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

How do you copy and paste into Git Bash

I&#39;m using **msysgit 1.7.7.1** on Windows. I get an error when using `git diff`. What is causing this? Is there no diff tool included in msysgit? What should I do?

&gt; WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

Why does git diff on Windows warn that the &quot;terminal is not fully functional&quot;?

I&#39;m using [Git Bash][1] on Windows 7. When I run `git diff`, I see this: 

![][2]

However, I&#39;m unable to get back to a regular prompt. Pressing &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; seems to work, but as soon as I start typing a command, it&#39;s covered up with `(END)` as in that image.


  [1]: https://git-for-windows.github.io/
  [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/VqmB9.jpg

How do I exit the results of &#39;git diff&#39; in Git Bash on windows?

Is there a way to use Winmerge inside of git to do Diffs? 


use Winmerge inside of Git to file diff

I am having trouble determining the [difference between MSysGit and Git for Windows][1]. How are they different? Why would I choose one over the other?

  [1]: http://msysgit.github.com/


MSysGit vs. Git for Windows

i use github and have successfully added and synched files on my laptop in the past. 

as of recent i started getting &quot;**PuTTY Fatal Error: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available**&quot; after running:

git pull origin master (or push)

however

ssh git@github.com returns the correct response:
ERROR: Hi username! You&#39;ve successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access
Connection to github.com closed.

after digging around on github i found this morcel:

**No supported authentication methods available**
You should be aware of the environment variable GIT_SSH, which is used by git to find your ssh-speaking client, if ssh doesn’t work for you. The git install may be using plink.exe (via GIT_SSH) to perform the authentication. If so, make sure you have pageant.exe running, and the key you created for github loaded into it. This provides the key to plink.exe; without it, the above error will occur.

not sure what plink.exe or peagant.exe is.. and the fact that ssh git@github.com seems to authenticate correctly makes me wonder what the best solution here is.. i certainly don&#39;t want to overcomplicate my setup if not necessary. 

github: No supported authentication methods available

I have git proxy config as &#39;http.proxy=http://userId:&lt;b&gt;pwd@123&lt;/b&gt;@ipaddress:port&#39; but while cloning a remote project, I&#39;m getting error as 


    Cloning into git...
    error: Couldn&#39;t resolve proxy &#39;123@ipaddress&#39; while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs

    fatal: HTTP request failed

How to escape the &#39;@&#39; character in password? 

Pls note: I cannot change the password.

Escape @ character in git proxy password

I want to force git to checkout files under Windows using just `LF` not `CR+LF`. I checked the two configuration options but I was not able to find the right combination of settings.

I want it to convert all files to `LF` and keep the `LF` on the files.

Remark: I used `autocrlf = input` but this just repairs the files when you commit them. I want to force it to get them using `LF`.

Probably I wasn&#39;t so clear: the repository is already using `LF` but the files checked out using msysgit are using `CR+LF` and I want to force msysgit to get them with `LF`: **forcing Unix line endings**.

    &gt;git config --list | grep crlf
    core.autocrlf=input

How do I force git to use LF instead of CR+LF under windows?

I am using Git on Windows. I installed the msysGit package. My test repository has a self signed certificate at the server. I can access and use the repository using HTTP without problems. Moving to HTTPS gives the error:

&gt; SSL Certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate.  

I have the self signed certificate installed in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities of my Windows 7 - client machine. I can browse to the HTTPS repository URL in Internet Explorer with no error messages.

[This blog post by Philip Kelley][1] explained that cURL does not use the client machine&#39;s certificate store. I followed the blog post&#39;s advice to create a private copy of `curl-ca-bundle.crt` and configure Git to use it. I am sure Git is using my copy. If I rename the copy; Git complains the file is missing.

I pasted in my certificate, as mentioned in the blog post, I still get the message &quot;unable to get local issuer certificate&quot;.

I verified that Git was still working by cloning a GitHub Repository via HTTPS.

The only thing I see that&#39;s different to the blog post is that my certificate *is* the root - there is no chain to reach it. My certificate originally came from clicking the IIS8 IIS Manager link &#39;Create Self Signed Certificate&#39;. Maybe that makes a certificate different in some way to what cURL expects.

How can I get Git/cURL to accept the self signed certificate?

  [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/phkelley/adding-a-corporate-or-self-signed-certificate-authority-to-git-exes-store

Unable to resolve &quot;unable to get local issuer certificate&quot; using git on Windows with self-signed certificate

When I try to create a symbolic link from the [Git Bash][1] shell, it fails every time all the time:

    ln -s /c/Users/bzisad0/Work testlink

Output:

```
ln: creating symbolic link `testlink&#39; to `/c/Users/bzisad0/Work&#39;: Permission denied
```

The only thing it does, besides giving the error message, is create an empty directory named (in this case) `testlink`.

I don&#39;t see any problem with the `ln` executable.  For instance, it is owned by me and marked as executable:

    which ln
    ls -hal /bin/ln

Output:

    /bin/ln

    -rwxr-xr-x    1 BZISAD0  Administ      71k Sep  5 11:55 /bin/ln

I also own the current directory (`~`, which is `/c/Users/bzisad0`):

    ls -dhal .

Output:

    drwxr-xr-x  115 BZISAD0  Administ      40k Sep  5 12:23 .

I have administrative rights, and I&#39;ve tried opening the Git Bash shell with &quot;Run as Administrator&quot;, but that makes no difference.

I&#39;ve tried opening the Windows properties for `ln.exe` and setting the Privilege Level to &quot;Run this program as an administrator&quot; but that doesn&#39;t help.

I&#39;ve gone into the *Security* &amp;rarr; *Advanced* properties in Windows and made myself (rather than the Administrators group) the owner, but that doesn&#39;t fix anything either.

I&#39;m at a loss.  I don&#39;t know whether this error message is ultimately coming from `ln`, from Bash, or from Windows, or how I could possibly lack the permission.  How can I get to the bottom of this?

  [1]: https://superuser.com/questions/1053633/what-is-git-bash-for-windows-anyway


Git Bash shell fails to create symbolic links

When I attempt to run certain commands (like git push, for example) from a git Bash on Windows 7 (64bit) I get the error:

    The program can&#39;t start because libiconv2.dll is missing from your computer

I have searched exhaustively for a solution to this.  
The most I can find is an issue thread at the google code site ([Issue 419][1]) and a few other blogs here and there. As far as I can tell none of the suggestions offered in the posts will actually solve my issue.

I have tried re-installing. I have tried adding `$GIT/bin` to the `PATH`.  
I can verify that the dll is in the `$GIT/bin` directory...but still I cannot push to remote.

I have a working install of msysgit on another Windows 7 box, and I installed the same way in both situations... so needless to say I am quite confused.

Any help on this would be most appreciated.

Thanks,


  [1]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=419

Git for Windows - The Program can&#39;t start because libiconv2.dll is missing

I&#39;ve noticed that I have two listings for `core.autocrlf` when I run `git config -l`

    $ git config -l
    core.symlinks=false
    core.autocrlf=false
    color.diff=auto
    color.status=auto
    color.branch=auto
    color.interactive=true
    pack.packsizelimit=2g
    help.format=html
    http.sslcainfo=/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
    sendemail.smtpserver=/bin/msmtp.exe
    diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
    rebase.autosquash=true
    user.name=name
    user.email=email@example.com
    core.autocrlf=true

Those last three (from user.name down) are the only ones in my `C:\users\username\.gitconfig` file. Where are all of the other ones coming from?  Why is core.autocrlf listed twice?

This is with MSysGit 1.8.3, and I also have Sourcetree installed (Windows&amp;nbsp;7). In Sourcetree I have unchecked the &quot;Allow Sourcetree to modify your global Git config files&quot;





Where do the settings in my Git configuration come from?

I&#39;ve been using Git on both Windows and Ubuntu during the development of a small project, frequently flipping back and forth between the two. The issue is that *Git Bash* consistently becomes slow.

When I say slow, I mean that running `cd` takes anywhere from 8-25 seconds, running `git` commands take from 5-20 seconds, and `ls` can take up to 30 seconds sometimes. Needless to say, this is not fun, not to mention unproductive. I know Git is slower on Windows, but this is ridiculous.

The one solution which has worked--temporarily--for me has been to disable my network connection (as suggested in [this answer][1]), start Git Bash, and then reconnect. Sometimes it continues to run quickly for days after doing that, but the performance always degrades eventually. I&#39;ve trawled through the msysgit discussion group, Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow, msysgit issue list, etc. on and off for weeks, but I haven&#39;t been able to turn up solutions which work.

So far, I&#39;ve tried:

 - Adding Git &amp; project folders to the virus scanner&#39;s exclusion list
 - Disabling my virus scanner completely (Kaspersky IS 2011)
 - Ensuring that Outlook is not running (Outlook 2007)
 - Shutting down all other applications
 - Running Git Bash as administrator
 - Disabling network connection, starting Git Bash, and keeping connection disabled
 - Disabling network connection, starting Git Bash, re-enabling connection (works only occasionally)
 - Running `git gc`
 - And combinations of the above

I did read that a couple of people had success disabling Bash completion, but ideally I&#39;d like to keep that active. The version of msysgit is 1.7.3.1-preview20101002 &amp; the OS is Windows 7 x64. Running the same things on Linux is, predictably, lightning fast. I would use Linux exclusively, but I need to run stuff in Windows, too (certain applications, testing, etc.).

Has anyone encountered a similar issue? If so, what was the underlying problem and what was the solution (if any)?

This extends beyond just the Git repositories, but just for reference, the repositories I&#39;ve been using Git with have been pretty small: ~4-50 files maximum.

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835775/msysgit-bash-is-horrendously-slow-in-windows-7



Git Bash is extremely slow on Windows 7 x64

When I run git blame on a file (using msysgit) I always get the following sort of printout:

    00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2011-01-09 11:21:30 +0200   1) package co
    00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2011-01-09 11:21:30 +0200   2) {
    00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2011-01-09 11:21:30 +0200   3)      impor
    00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2011-01-09 11:21:30 +0200   4)      impor
    00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2011-01-09 11:21:30 +0200   5)      impor
    00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2011-01-09 11:21:30 +0200   6)      impor
    00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2011-01-09 11:21:30 +0200   7)      impor

i.e. it shows all lines as Not Yet Committed.

I tried this on many files, that have many commits - always the same results. I also tried using relative/full path, but it seems to make no difference.

When I try to use TortoiseGit&#39;s blame it always shows every line as being last committed at the first commit:

![alt text][1]

even thought, as I&#39;ve said, there are actually tens of commits in the history of these files..

Ideas?

**Edit - More Info**

* Git blame works fine on GitHub, where this repo is hosted.
* It also works fine if I clone it to a linux machine and do the blame there
* It seems that only on msysgit this doesn&#39;t work


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/c4p9p.png

Git blame showing no history

I love git and use it on OS X pretty much constantly at home.  At work, we use svn on Windows, but want to migrate to git as soon as the tools have fully matured (not just [TortoiseGit][1], but also something akin the really nice Visual Studio integration provided by [VisualSVN][2]).  But I digress...

I recently installed [msysgit][3] on my Windows 7 machine, and when using the included version of bash, it is **horrendously** slow.  And not just the git operations; `clear` takes about five *seconds*.  AAAAH!

Has anyone experienced a similar issue?


----------
**Edit**:  It *appears* that msysgit is not playing nicely with [UAC][uac] and might just be a tiny design oversight resulting from developing on XP or running Vista or 7 with UAC disabled; starting Git Bash using `Run as administrator` results in the lightning speed I see with OS X (or on 7 after starting Git Bash w/o a network connection - see @Gauthier answer).

**Edit 2**: [AH HA!][ahha]  See my answer.

  [1]: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
  [2]: http://www.visualsvn.com/visualsvn/
  [3]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
  [uac]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control
  [ahha]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320

Msysgit bash is horrendously slow in Windows 7

I have a certain patch called my_pcc_branch.patch.

When I try to apply it, I get following message:

    $ git apply --check my_pcc_branch.patch
    warning: src/main/java/.../AbstractedPanel.java has type 100644, expected 100755
    error: patch failed: src/main/java/.../AbstractedPanel.java:13
    error: src/main/java/.../AbstractedPanel.java: patch does not apply

What does it mean?

How can I fix this problem?

git: patch does not apply

**The scenario**

Imagine I am forced to work with some of my files always stored inside `.zip` files. Some of the files inside the ZIP file are small text files and change often, while others are larger but luckily rather static (e.g. images).

If I want to place these ZIP files inside a Git repository, each ZIP is treated as a blob, so whenever I commit the repository grows by the size of the ZIP file... even if only one small text file inside changed!

**Why this is realistic**

[Microsoft Word 2007][1]/[2010][2] `.docx` and Excel `.xlsx` files are ZIP files...

**What I want**

Is there, by any chance, a way to tell Git to not treat ZIP files as files, but rather as directories and treat their contents as files?

**The advantages**

 - much smaller repository size, i.e. quicker transfer/backup
 - [Display changes with Git to ZIP files][3] would automagically work

*But it couldn&#39;t work, you say?*

I realize that without extra metadata this would lead to some amount of ambiguity: on a `git checkout` Git would have to decide whether to create `foo.zip/bar.txt` as a file in a regular directory or a ZIP file. However, this could be solved through configuration options, I would think.

**Two ideas how it could be done** (if it doesn&#39;t exist yet)

 - using a library such as `minizip` or `IO::Compress::Zip` inside Git
 - somehow adding a filesystem layer such that Git actually sees ZIP files as directories to start with

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word#Word_2007
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word#Word_2010
  [3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4704873/display-changes-with-git-to-zips





Can Git treat ZIP files as directories and files inside the ZIP as blobs?

I plan to migrate my projects over to git, and I&#39;m currently wondering which is the best and / or most stable option under windows.

From what I gather I basically have 2.5 options:

 1. [MSYSgit][1]
 2. git under [Cygwin][2]
 3. (aka 2.5) MSYSgit from a Cygwin prompt (given that Cygwin git is already installed).

Note: IMO Cygwin in itself is a big plus as you can have access to pretty much all the *nix command line tools, as where with MSYSgit bash, you only have access to a rather small subset of these tools.

Given that, what option would you suggest?


  [1]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
  [2]: http://www.cygwin.com/

Git under windows: MSYS or Cygwin?

I have googled and found many solutions but none work for me.

I am trying to clone from one machine by connecting to the remote server which is in the LAN network.  
Running this command from another machine cause error.  
But running the SAME clone command using git://192.168.8.5 ... at the server it&#39;s okay and successful. 

Any ideas ?

    user@USER ~
    $ git clone  -v git://192.168.8.5/butterfly025.git
    Cloning into &#39;butterfly025&#39;...
    remote: Counting objects: 4846, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3256/3256), done.
    fatal: read error: Invalid argument, 255.05 MiB | 1.35 MiB/s
    fatal: early EOF
    fatal: index-pack failed

I have added this config in `.gitconfig` but no help also.  
Using the git version 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0

    [core]
    	compression = -1

fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed

What is the difference between `git-scm` (downloaded from [git-scm.com][1]) and msysGit (hosted on [Google Code][2], [Github][3], and probably others)? They both seem pretty similar, and even though I have git-scm, I have applied fixes specified for msysGit and they seem to work fine.

Also, which one, if either, is `Git for Windows`, and are both called `Git Bash`, or do both have the `Git Bash` shell, or only one of the two?

  [1]: http://git-scm.com
  [2]: https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
  [3]: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/

Differences between Git-scm, msysGit &amp; Git for Windows

I&#39;m reading the github wiki for git-for-windows and it says that msys2 bundles pacman: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Package-management

But when I invoke it I get:

    $ pacman
    bash: pacman: command not found

Does anyone have an idea what is going on? 

Which git version does this wiki refer to? 

Is there a way to install additional packages to msys2 inside Git for windows?

Package management in Git for Windows (Git Bash)?

I&#39;ve tried msysGit and Git on Cygwin. Both work just fine in and of themselves and both run gitk and git-gui perfectly.

Now how the heck do I configure a mergetool? (Vimdiff works on Cygwin, but preferably I would like something a little more user-friendly for some of our  Windows-loving coworkers.)

Git on Windows: How do you set up a mergetool?

This isn&#39;t the best programming question but lets face it, the server fault guys aren&#39;t well versed in git, so I think its more towards this audience.

I want to switch to TortoiseGit, or PortableGit in my shell, but I&#39;m left with these annoying context-menu options.

How do I get them to go away? Do I have to write a script to uninstall them?  

How do I remove msysgit&#39;s right click menu options?

There&#39;s been a lot of questions about adding support for symlinks on Windows. But, what actually happens when I clone [a repository with symlinks](https://github.com/ariofrio/symlink-test) on Windows?

What happens when I clone a repository with symlinks on Windows?

How can I ignore directories or folders in Git using msysgit on Windows?


Ignoring directories in Git repositories on Windows

Which is efficient? SSH:// or Git://  (File compression)

I understand in Git, git protocol is smart because there is a protocol agent on both ends of communication to compress the file transfer resulting in faster clone by efficiently using the network bandwidth.

From [an O&#39;Reilly book][1] I found the following statements.

    For secure, authenticated connections, the Git native 
    protocol can be tunneled over an SSH connection using
    the following URL templates:

    ssh: //[user@]example.com[:port]/path/to/repo.git
    ssh: //[user@]example.com/path/to/repo.git
    ssh: //[user@]example.com/~user2/path/to/repo.git
    ssh: //[user@]example.com/~/path/to/repo.git*

I&#39;m not sure if the author means what he says. He talks of git protocol getting tunneled over SSH. 

From my perspective, unless you connect to the git port (agent port), the protocol is not in effect. And SSH is merely an uncompressed file transfer. But as per the author, if we use SSH he says the git protocol is tunneled over it. So is SSH smarter in GIT?

Von C,
Thanks for your answer. &quot;Network protocols (HTTP and Git) are generally read-only&quot; Git can be made `rw` when you run the daemon with `--enable=receive-pack`. 

Following are my concerns.  
When they say git protocol is smart, they mean when you execute `git clone`, Git server agent compresses the data that is sent back to the client, so the clone should be faster. In my use case I&#39;ll be setting the Git server in Hongkong and using it on San Jose and other countries as well, So I want to be efficient over network due to latency concerns.

So my question is when I use `git clone ssh://user@server/reposloc` do I get the benefits of git protocol also? As per O&#39;Reilly author book he means git is tunneled over ssh, then how does git protocol work when I don&#39;t have git daemon running on the server.

So using SSh://xyz... does it give both the benefit of ssh and git protocols?

Appreciate your answers in advance.


  [1]: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkXELyQWf4UC&amp;lpg=PA201&amp;pg=PA201

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