Run `git commit` without a message and it&#39;ll open up your favorite* text editor to write a commit message. Details on the format of the message will appear in the sample.

First line is the short description. Leave a blank line after it. Everything else is the extended description.

*: for some values of &quot;favorite&quot;; results may vary

From this accepted [answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/22909204/2624876):

    git commit -m &quot;Title&quot; -m &quot;Description ..........&quot;


Actually, you can do this quite easily from the command line. The trick is to type your message (without a closing quote!) and then hit enter twice, and then type your extended message, close the quote and press enter. 

It should look like:


    $ git commit -m &quot;Make everything work.
    dquote&gt;
    dquote&gt; Add magic code that fixes everything&quot;


GitHub will correctly display the top line as your basic message and the bottom line as the extended message.

The following does NOT work. You end up with the literal &quot;\n\n&quot; in the commit message: `$ git commit -m &quot;Basic msg\n\nExtend msg, doesnt work&quot;`. 


I am trying to plot information against dates. I have a list of dates in the format &quot;01/02/1991&quot;.

I converted them by doing the following:

    x = parser.parse(date).strftime(&#39;%Y%m%d&#39;))

which gives `19910102`

Then I tried to use num2date

    import matplotlib.dates as dates
    new_x = dates.num2date(x)

Plotting:

    plt.plot_date(new_x, other_data, fmt=&quot;bo&quot;, tz=None, xdate=True)

But I get an error. It says &quot;ValueError: year is out of range&quot;. Any solutions?

Plotting dates on the x-axis with Python&#39;s matplotlib

I have a form that functions as a settings page. When form elements are modified, they are marked as `unsaved` and have a different border color. When the form is saved, they are marked as saved by having another border color.

What I want is that when the form is saved, the border will gradually fade out.

The order will go:

    &lt;input type=&#39;text&#39; class=&#39;unsaved&#39; /&gt; Not saved yet, border is yellow
    &lt;input type=&#39;text&#39; class=&#39;saved&#39; /&gt;   Saved, so the border is green
    &lt;input type=&#39;text&#39; class=&#39;&#39; /&gt;        Fade out if coming from class saved

If I can get a CSS3 transition to fire when the class `saved` is removed, then it could fade out and everything would be hunky-dory. Currently, I have to manually animate it (using a plug-in, of course), but it looks choppy, and I would like to move the code to CSS3 so it will be smoother.

I only need this to work in Chrome and Firefox 4+, though others would be nice.

**CSS:**

Here&#39;s the associated CSS:

    .unsaved {
        border: 3px solid #FFA500;
        padding: 0;
    }
    .saved {
        border: 3px solid #0F0;
        padding: 0;
    }

I would like to work in the following transition (or something like it):

    border-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
    -webkit-transition: border-color .25s ease-in;  
    -moz-transition: border-color .25s ease-in;  
    -o-transition: border-color .25s ease-in;  
    transition: border-color .25s ease-in;
**Note:**

Personally, I don&#39;t agree with this scheme of user interaction, but that&#39;s how our software lead wants it. Please don&#39;t suggest that I change the way it functions currently. Thanks!

CSS transition when class removed

I recently use GitHub and downloaded GitHub for Mac.

I noticed you can add an &#39;extended description&#39; using GitHub for Mac. How do I add an extended description using the command line?

Can I add an extended description to an existing commit?

Git/GitHub commit with extended message/description

I recently use GitHub and downloaded GitHub for Mac.
I noticed you can add an 'extended description' using GitHub for Mac. How do I add an extended description using the command line?
Can I add an extended description to an existing commit?

I have changed several files in a git repository, but have not committed them yet.

I can get a list of the changes by just invoking `git status`. But how do I get a listing of the *lines* or the *content* that I have changed, in addition to the filenames?

I initially thought about using [git diff][1], but it seems to be useful only for comparing already commited changes.

Usually I just do `meld .`, but on this case I&#39;m connected to an external server via ssh.


  [1]: http://schacon.github.com/git/git-diff.html

git - diff of current changes before committing

I was wondering if anyone would have a better suggestion for keeping a feature branch in sync with it&#39;s parent branch. 

We typically have multiple feature branches that are being worked on at a time, each derived from our `develop` branch. It&#39;s fairly common for feature branches to be merged into `develop` a couple times a day. 

In order to stay on top of changes (i.e. resolve conflicts) I find I need to keep the feature branches I&#39;m actively working on up to date with `develop`.

To do this I run these commands a couple times a day:

    git checkout develop
    git pull
    git checkout feature/foo 
    git merge develop 
    git push

The last `git push` I usually only do if I&#39;m working with someone else on the feature branch.

Is there a better or more convenient way to do this? 

Easier way to keep a git feature branch up to date

I have a CENTRAL bare repository that has three developer repositories pulling and pushing to it normally.

I also have two other repositories that pull from the CENTRAL bare repo: one is the live server, and the other is a test/stage server—each pulling from its own respective branch.

The scenario is this: I have a `post-update` hook script on the CENTRAL repo that automatically accesses the test and live repos and runs a pull command on each. This updates both test and live servers, all depending on what branch has new commits. This all works great.

The problem is this: there may be times in an emergency that files may be directly updated on the server (via ftp or whatever) and the CENTRAL post-update script will then fail since merge/overwrite conflicts will occur. There is no way to avoid this scenario, and it is inevitable.

What I would like to have happen is this: I want the pull from the live and test sites to *always* overwrite/merge on pull. ***Always.*** These repos will be pull-only as they are not for development.

In all my research, I cannot find a good solution to have a pull *always* force an overwrite of the local files. Is this at all possible? It would make for a great development scenario if so.

How do I force git pull to overwrite everything on every pull?

Usually, to discard changes to a file you would do:

    git checkout -- &lt;file&gt;

What if the change I want to discard is deleting the file? The above line would give an error:

    error: pathspec &#39;&lt;file&gt;&#39; did not match any file(s) known to git.

What command will restore that single file without undoing other changes?

**bonus point:** Also, what if the change I want to discard is *adding* a file? I would like to know how to unstage that change as well.





Unstage a deleted file in git

Is it possible to list all users that contributed to a project (users that have done commits) in Git?

Any additional statistics?


List all developers on a project in Git

I have recently downloaded `GitHub` and created a repository on it. I am trying to upload an `Objective C` project in it. How do I go about doing this? 



How To Upload Files on GitHub

I need to do the SSH key audit for GitHub, but I am not sure how do find my RSA key fingerprint. I originally followed a guide to generate an SSH key on Linux.

What is the command I need to enter to find my current RSA key fingerprint?

Calculate RSA key fingerprint

I&#39;d like to export from github remote repository, not cloning it. Similar to svn export, I do not want to get .git folder with it. I can work around it by cloning and removing .git folder. I wonder if there is a cleaner way?

I read it somewhere you can use git archive to achieve this.

However I got the following errors..

    $ git archive --format=tar --remote=git@github.com:xxx/yyy.git master | tar -xf -

    Invalid command: &#39;git-upload-archive &#39;xxx/yyy.git&#39;&#39;
    You appear to be using ssh to clone a git:// URL.
    Make sure your core.gitProxy config option and the
    GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment variable are NOT set.
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Any help would be great. Thanks.

git export from github remote repository

Within a bash script, what would be the simplest way to verify that a git URL points to a valid git repo and that the script has access to read from it?

Protocols that should be supported are `git@`, `https://`, and `git://`. Curl fails on the `git://` protocol.

    git@github.com:UserName/Example.git
    https://UserName@github.com/UserName/Example.git
    git://github.com/UserName/Example.git

Note: I&#39;m not asking to check to see if a URL is syntactically correct, I need to verify that a repo exists at the URL location entered from within a bash script.

How to check the validity of a  remote git repository URL?

Someone gave me access to one of their private repo on Github. What I want to do is to fork that project into my own account, so I could make use of Github&#39;s pull request feature.

I only have a basic account on Github, so I cannot make private repos on my own, but if I fork someone else&#39;s private repo into my account, is it going to appear in my account as public?

Content Type	Original Author	Original Content on Stackoverflow
Question	Adrian Gunawan	View Question on Stackoverflow
Solution 1 - Git	user149341	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 2 - Git	1j01	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 3 - Git	stephen.hanson	View Answer on Stackoverflow

Git/GitHub commit with extended message/description

Git Problem Overview

Git Solutions

Solution 1 - Git

Solution 2 - Git

Solution 3 - Git

CSS transition when class removed

Plotting dates on the x-axis with Python's matplotlib

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