git-svn is installed in the latest version of msysgit. However, there&#39;s a slight caveat: while git-svn shows up in C:\Program Files\git\libexec as &quot;git-svn&quot;, svn is actually called as an argument to the git executable, thus:

    git svn clone http://example.com/svn/repo/
 


[This earlier version](http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.5.5-preview20080413.exe) has working git-svn. I thought that git-svn in the current version that you installed was fixed, but maybe not.  Git-svn definitely did not work in the windows version of Git 1.5.6.1.





Install [cygwin][1] and select the git-svn package under the Devel category.


  [1]: http://www.cygwin.com

The `git svn` command is written in Perl and requires the Subversion Perl libraries. The existence of the `svn` command line command is insufficient for `git-svn`.

I haven&#39;t used `git svn` on Windows (only on Unix and Mac OS X), so I can&#39;t really provide more detail, but hopefully this should point you in the right direction.

I don&#39;t know git, but I know that for Mercurial, for example, you have to have SVN installed to convert from SVN to Mercurial (and back). Perhaps it is the same for git?

SVN is quite big by itself, so perhaps concurrent systems won&#39;t want to distribute it with their software, bloating the download.

I used the command line SVN client from [Slik SVN](http://www.sliksvn.com/ &quot;Subversion | Slik SVN&quot;), not too big and installing cleanly.

Of course, wait for more informed answer, or search the Web for confirmation of my information... :-) Although it doesn&#39;t hurt to have an SVN client, since lot of projects use it.

In C++, I can&#39;t think of a case in which I would like to inherit private/protected from a 
base class:

    class Base;
    class Derived1 : private Base;
    class Derived2 : protected Base;

Is it really useful?



Why do we actually need Private or Protected inheritance in C++?

I&#39;d like to store a simple key/value string dictionary in my web config file.  Visual Studio makes it easy to store a string collection(see sample below) but I&#39;m not sure how to do it with a dictionary collection.

            &lt;ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot; xmlns:xsd=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&quot;&gt;
              &lt;string&gt;value1&lt;/string&gt;
              &lt;string&gt;value2&lt;/string&gt;
              &lt;string&gt;value2&lt;/string&gt;
            &lt;/ArrayOfString&gt;

How do I store a dictionary object in my web.config file?

I want to use git as a local repository against a remote SVN repository. I installed version 1.6.0.2 from [http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list][1].

According to the documentation synchronization is done via the command 

    git svn

or a separate command wrapper called 

    git-svn

Neither of them is available in my installation and I could not find a separate download for Windows binaries. 

I&#39;m currenty using the MSYS build. Must I switch to cygwin?


  [1]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list

git-svn on Windows. Where to get binaries?

I want to use git as a local repository against a remote SVN repository. I installed version 1.6.0.2 from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list</a>.
According to the documentation synchronization is done via the command
<pre><code class="hljs">git svn
</code></pre>
or a separate command wrapper called
<pre><code class="hljs">git-svn
</code></pre>
Neither of them is available in my installation and I could not find a separate download for Windows binaries.
I'm currenty using the MSYS build. Must I switch to cygwin?

I would like to be able to query whether or not a service is running from a windows batch file. I know I can use:  

&gt; sc query &quot;ServiceName&quot;  

but, this dumps out some text. What I really want is for it to set the `errorlevel` environment variable so that I can take action on that.

Do you know a simple way I can do this?

**UPDATE**  
Thanks for the answers so far. I&#39;m worried the solutions that parse the text may not work on non English operating systems. Does anybody know a way around this, or am I going to have to bite the bullet and write a console program to get this right.

How to test whether a service is running from the command line

I am looking for a way to determine what the Name/IP Address of the domain controller is for a given domain that a client computer is connected to.

At our company we have a lot of small little networks that we use for testing and most of them have their own little domains.  As an example, one of the domains is named &quot;TESTLAB&quot;.  I have an Windows XP workstation that is a member of the TESTLAB domain and I am trying to figure out the name of the domain controller so that I can go and look to see what users have been defined for the domain.  In our lab there is a mix of Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 (and in reality probably a couple of NT 4 Servers) so it would be nice to find a solution that would work for both.

Looking on the Internet, it looks like there are various utilities, such as Windows Power Shell or nltest, but these all require that you download and install other utilities.  I was hoping to find a way to find the domain controller without having to install anything additional.

**EDIT** If I wanted to write a program to find the domain controller or the users in the current domain, how would I go about doing that?


How do I find out which computer is the domain controller in Windows programmatically?

I&#39;m trying to do this:

    cmd.exe /C &quot;C:\Program Files\Somewhere\SomeProgram.exe&quot; &gt; &quot;C:\temp\Folder Containing Spaces\SomeProgram.out&quot;

However, I have problems which are down to the way cmd.exe works. If you read the help for it, it handles &quot; characters in a special way. See the help at the end of question. So, this doesn&#39;t execute correctly... I&#39;m guessing cmd.exe strips some quotes which makes the statement ill-formed.

I can do this successfully:

    // quotes not required around folder with no spaces
    cmd.exe /C &quot;C:\Program Files\Somewhere\SomeProgram.exe&quot; &gt; C:\temp\FolderWithNoSpaces\SomeProgram.out

But, I really need the first one to work. Is there away around the strange quote processing that cmd.exe uses? I want it to preserve all of the quotes, but there doesn&#39;t appear to be an option to make it do that.

----------
**Help taken from output of: cmd /?**

If /C or /K is specified, then the remainder of the command line after
the switch is processed as a command line, where the following logic is
used to process quote (&quot;) characters:

    1.  If all of the following conditions are met, then quote characters
        on the command line are preserved:

        - no /S switch
        - exactly two quote characters
        - no special characters between the two quote characters,
          where special is one of: &amp;&lt;&gt;()@^|
        - there are one or more whitespace characters between the
          the two quote characters
        - the string between the two quote characters is the name
          of an executable file.

    2.  Otherwise, old behavior is to see if the first character is
        a quote character and if so, strip the leading character and
        remove the last quote character on the command line, preserving
        any text after the last quote character.



How do I deal with quote characters when using cmd.exe

I&#39;d like to find a Windows batch counterpart to Bash&#39;s `$@` that holds a list of all arguments passed into a script. 

Or I have to bother with `shift`?

How to get list of arguments?

I have just start using git and i can&#39;t get it to remember my passphrase I&#39;m using cmd.exe elevated and my git host is github and i have create a ssh key like that guide on github

but i still get  

    *\subnus.mvc&gt;git push origin master
    Enter passphrase for key &#39;/c/Users/Subnus/.ssh/id_rsa&#39;:

Why git can&#39;t remember my passphrase under Windows

I have a server that hosts my Subversion code base. That server is currently a [Windows Server 2003][1] box, and my IT administrator wants to update it to [Windows Server 2008][2].

This means that I&#39;m going to need to move my Subversion repository while the server gets built up and was wondering what the best practices are for moving the repository to a new server.

It seems like, looking online, the recommended way is to use:

    svnadmin dump /path/to/repository &gt; repository-name.dmp

And then use:

    svnadmin create repository-name
    svnadmin load repository-name&lt; repository-name.dmp

To import the repository.

Does the method above seem like the best approach?

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2003
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008




Moving a Subversion repository to another server

Up till now I have been developing my personal and school
projects at home without using any form of revision control
software to handle my changes and whatnot.

My question is, **how feasible is it to use a Version
Control application** (such as [TortoiseSVN][1]) **for
personal projects I do for myself** (and even school
projects) ?

Is it worth the hassle of checking in, committing changes
and all that routine, just for &#39;home-projects&#39; instead of
just making manual backups?



**Links**:

  - [Tortoise SVN][5]
  - [SvnServe Server][6]

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseSVN
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software)
  [3]: http://www.shokhirev.com/nikolai/programs/SVN/svn.html
  [4]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/365006/connecting-to-my-home-revision-control-repository-remotely
  [5]: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
  [6]: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-serversetup-svnserve.html


Using Version Control for Home Development?

Recently our svn server was changed and we did a svn switch.

Since the working copy had a huge amount of unversioned resources, the working copy got locked and we started switching folder by folder for all folders under svn, which works perfectly fine.

But at the top most level of the repository, when I try to update files, I get the *svn: Working copy &#39;.&#39; locked* error and cleanup is not helping either. When I do cleanup, I get errors like these - *svn: &#39;content&#39; is not a working copy directory*

Fresh checkout is NOT an option at all. Are there any other ways to cleanup and release the locks and do the switch completely ?


**EDIT:** 
The last paragraph in JesperE&#39;s answer

&gt; If you get a &quot;not a working copy&quot; when
&gt; doing a recursive &quot;svn cleanup&quot; my
&gt; guess is that you have a directory
&gt; which should be a working copy (i.e.
&gt; the .svn directory at the toplevel
&gt; says so), but it is missing its own
&gt; .svn directory. In that case, you
&gt; could try to just remove/move that
&gt; directory and then do a local update

seems to be the solution to the problem in the repository. I have identified those folders and did a fresh checkout of those specific folders alone and wow, the locks are released in the subsequent cleanup! Thanks a lot JesperE !!

But, I still cannot figure out the svn switch error which now reads something like,

&gt; svn: The repository at
&gt; &#39;svn://repourl/reponame/foldername&#39;
&gt; has uuid &#39;m/reponame&#39;, but the WC
&gt; has &#39;b5b39681-0ff6-784b-ad26-2846b9ea8e7d&#39;

Any ideas ?


SVN Error - Not a working copy

I have a repository which I have *already* cloned from Subversion.  I&#39;ve been doing some work in this repository in its Git form and I would hate to lose that structure by cloning again.

However, when I originally cloned the repository, I failed to correctly specify the `svn.authors` property (or a semantically-similar option).

Is there any way I can specify the SVN author mappings now that the repository is fully Git-ified?

Preferably, I would like to correct all of the old commit authors to represent the Git author rather than the raw SVN username.

Retroactively Correct Authors with Git SVN?

We have a rails application in subversion that we deploy with Capistrano but have noticed that we can access the files in &#39;/.svn&#39;, which presents a security concern. 

I wanted to know what the best way to do this.  A few ideas:

 * Global Apache configuration to deny access 
 * Adding .htaccess files in the public folder and all subfolders
 * Cap task that changes the permissions

I don&#39;t really like the idea of deleting the folders or using svn export, since I would like to keep the &#39;svn info&#39; around.

Deny access to .svn folders on Apache

When you run `git branch -r` why the blazes does it list `origin/HEAD`? For example, there&#39;s a remote repo on GitHub, say, with two branches: master and awesome-feature. If I do `git clone` to grab it and then go into my new directory and list the branches, I see this:

    $ git branch -r
    origin/HEAD
    origin/master
    origin/awesome-feature

Or whatever order it would be in (alpha? I&#39;m faking this example to keep the identity of an innocent repo secret). So what&#39;s the `HEAD` business? Is it what the last person to `push` had their `HEAD` pointed at when they pushed? Won&#39;t that always be whatever it was they `push`ed? `HEAD`s move around... why do I care what someone&#39;s `HEAD` pointed at on another machine?

I&#39;m just getting a handle on remote tracking and such, so this is one lingering confusion. Thanks!

EDIT: I was under the impression that dedicated remote repos (like GitHub where no one will ssh in and work on that code, but only pull or push, etc) didn&#39;t and shouldn&#39;t have a HEAD because there was, basically, no working copy. Not so?

Why is &quot;origin/HEAD&quot; shown when running &quot;git branch -r&quot;?

I have a [Git][1] repository which contains a number of subdirectories. Now I have found that one of the subdirectories is unrelated to the other and should be detached to a separate repository.

How can I do this while keeping the history of the files within the subdirectory?

I guess I could make a clone and remove the unwanted parts of each clone, but I suppose this would give me the complete tree when checking out an older revision etc. This might be acceptable, but I would prefer to be able to pretend that the two repositories doesn&#39;t have a shared history.

Just to make it clear, I have the following structure:

    XYZ/
        .git/
        XY1/
        ABC/
        XY2/

But I would like this instead:

    XYZ/
        .git/
        XY1/
        XY2/
    ABC/
        .git/
        ABC/

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29


Detach (move) subdirectory into separate Git repository

Here&#39;s an example:

    &gt;git status
    # On branch master
    nothing to commit (working directory clean)
    &gt;git checkout -b test-branch
    &gt;vi test.c
    &gt;git add test.c
    &gt;git commit -m &quot;modified test.c&quot;
    &gt;vi README
    &gt;git add README
    &gt;git commit -m &quot;modified README&quot;

Now I want to do a &#39;`git rebase -i`&#39; that will let me rebase all commits for this branch. Is there something like &#39;`git rebase -i HEAD~MASTER`&#39; or similar. I figure I could do &#39;`git rebase -i HEAD~2`&#39;, but I really don&#39;t want to have to count how many commits have been made. I could also do &#39;`git rebase -i sha1`&#39; but I don&#39;t want to comb through git log to find the first commit sha1. Any ideas?


How do I use &#39;git rebase -i&#39; to rebase all changes in a branch?

Say I have a git repository and I&#39;ve been working on master, can I retroactively create a branch.  For example:

A - B - C - A1 - D - A2 - E

I want to make it look like this:

    A - A1 - A2   
    \           \   
    B - C - D - E

The specific use case is when I&#39;ve cherry-picked a bunch of commits into an old version branch and it needs to go into multiple older versions and I don&#39;t want to repeat the cherry-pick on all those revision.

Essentially it&#39;s something that would have been good as a feature or topic branch in the first place but wasn&#39;t created like that.



Is it possible to retroactively turn a set of commits into a branch?

If I check out a tagged version of my source code without creating a branch, Git indicates that I&#39;m not associated with any branch at all. It&#39;s happy to let me make changes and check them in though. Where do those changes go? If I switch back to &#39;master&#39; they disappear (overwritten by what was in master) and I can&#39;t seem to find them again. What gives? If Git lets me commit changes against what&#39;s essentially an anonymous branch, surely I can get them back?

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