IntelliJ IDEA doesn&#39;t pre-select author in the combobox which is a [known cosmetic issue][1], however it should use the author defined in the git configuration by default.

Please double check that `user.name` and `user.email` is specified properly in the global git configuration.

Some users mentioned a problem when using cygwin git, when IDEA probably cannot find the global git config. In this case it may help if you specify the user for the local project configuration:

    git config --local user.name &quot;John Doe&quot;
    git config --local user.email john@doe.com


  [1]: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-63926

Go to your project where git is **initialized**.

Then enable the hidden folders and find &quot;`.git`&quot; and go inside the folder.

Find the file called &quot;`config`&quot; and add below code and save.

    [user]
          name = username
          email = username@domaim.com

Enter your correct username and email accordingly. This will be picked permanently and you do not need to change again. 

I&#39;d interacting with a lot of deeply nested json I didn&#39;t write, and would like to make my python script more &#39;forgiving&#39; to invalid input. I find myself writing involved try-except blocks, and would rather just wrap the dubious function up.

I understand it&#39;s a bad policy to swallow exceptions, but I&#39;d rather prefer they to be printed and analysed later, than to actually stop execution. It&#39;s more valuable, in my use-case to continue executing over the loop than to get all keys.

Here&#39;s what I&#39;m doing now:

    try:
        item[&#39;a&#39;] = myobject.get(&#39;key&#39;).METHOD_THAT_DOESNT_EXIST()
    except:
        item[&#39;a&#39;] = &#39;&#39;
    try:
        item[&#39;b&#39;] = OBJECT_THAT_DOESNT_EXIST.get(&#39;key2&#39;)
    except:
        item[&#39;b&#39;] = &#39;&#39;
    try:
        item[&#39;c&#39;] = func1(ARGUMENT_THAT_DOESNT_EXIST)
    except:
        item[&#39;c&#39;] = &#39;&#39;
    ...
    try:
        item[&#39;z&#39;] = FUNCTION_THAT_DOESNT_EXIST(myobject.method())
    except:
        item[&#39;z&#39;] = &#39;&#39;

Here&#39;s what I&#39;d like, (1):

    item[&#39;a&#39;] = f(myobject.get(&#39;key&#39;).get(&#39;subkey&#39;))
    item[&#39;b&#39;] = f(myobject.get(&#39;key2&#39;))
    item[&#39;c&#39;] = f(func1(myobject)
    ...

or (2):

    @f
    def get_stuff():
       item={}
       item[&#39;a&#39;] = myobject.get(&#39;key&#39;).get(&#39;subkey&#39;)
       item[&#39;b&#39;] = myobject.get(&#39;key2&#39;)
       item[&#39;c&#39;] = func1(myobject)
       ...
       return(item)

...where I can wrap either the single data item (1), or a master function (2), in some function that turns execution-halting exceptions into empty fields, printed to stdout.  The former would be sort of an item-wise skip - where that key isn&#39;t available, it logs blank and moves on - the latter is a row-skip, where if any of the fields don&#39;t work, the entire record is skipped.

My understanding is that some kind of wrapper should be able to fix this.  Here&#39;s what I tried, with a wrapper:

    def f(func):
       def silenceit():
          try:
             func(*args,**kwargs)
          except:
             print(&#39;Error&#39;)
          return(silenceit)

Here&#39;s why it doesn&#39;t work.  Call a function that doesn&#39;t exist, it doesn&#39;t try-catch it away:

    &gt;&gt;&gt; f(meow())
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File &quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    NameError: name &#39;meow&#39; is not defined

Before I even add a blank return value, I&#39;d like to get it to try-catch correctly.  If the function had worked, this would have printed &quot;Error&quot;, right?  

Is a wrapper function the correct approach here?

**UPDATE**

I&#39;ve had a lot of really useful, helpful answers below, and thank you for them---but I&#39;ve edited the examples I used above to illustrate that I&#39;m trying to catch more than nested key errors, that I&#39;m looking specifically for a function that wraps a try-catch for...

 1. When a method doesn&#39;t exist. 
 2. When an object doesn&#39;t exist, and is getting a method called on it. 
 3. When an object that does not exist is being called as an argument to a function. 
 4. Any combination of any of these things. 
 5. Bonus, when a function doesn&#39;t exist.

General decorator to wrap try except in python?

As from subject. I saw this terminology in a question I recently asked, and apparently it&#39;s a well established term, but I am not able to find anything on stackoverflow.

What does &quot;cv-unqualified&quot; mean in C++?

I&#39;m using IntelliJ with a Git project, and have setup my `user.name` and `user.email` properly. The problem is when committing using the IDE interface the author is not selected by default. I can click and I get a dropdown to select it, but sometimes I forget to do that, and it&#39;s a pain to ammend the commit each time I forget.

Is there a way to set the author automatically on commit, since it&#39;s only one, and it would save me some headaches?

IntelliJ IDEA with Git remember author

<p>I'm using IntelliJ with a Git project, and have setup my <code>user.name</code> and <code>user.email</code> properly. The problem is when committing using the IDE interface the author is not selected by default. I can click and I get a dropdown to select it, but sometimes I forget to do that, and it's a pain to ammend the commit each time I forget.</p>
<p>Is there a way to set the author automatically on commit, since it's only one, and it would save me some headaches?</p>


I am under a proxy and I am pushing in to git successfully for quite a while.&lt;br&gt;
Now I am not able to push into git all of a sudden.&lt;br&gt;
I have set the RSA key and the proxy and double checked them, with no avail and git is throwing me the error shown in the title of the page.


ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection timed out

Is there a difference between `git rebase upstream/master` and `git pull --rebase upstream master`, and if so, what? The remote could be any remote, not necessarily upstream.

git rebase upstream/master vs git pull --rebase upstream master

Is there a one-command way to get an up-to-date mirror of a remote repo? 
That is

 - if local repo not there yet: clone
 - if it&#39;s there: pull

I know I could script this around (e.g `if [ -d repo ]; then (cd repo &amp;&amp; git pull); else git clone $repourl;fi
`) , but I need the simplest possible cross-platform way (actually used for Jenkins-CI, which I know does this by default, however I need 2 repos for which support is limited).



Git has similar shortcuts for other things (eg. checkout -b, and pull itself), so I&#39;m wondering if I missed something. Thanks!

Git shortcut to pull with clone if no local there yet?

Using command line git, how can I make git show a list of the files that are being tracked in the repository?

How can I make git show a list of the files that are being tracked?

I&#39;m using GIT as my source control system. We have it installed on one of our Linux boxes. Tortoise GIT is my windows client.

This morning I checked in some changes, and tagged the code. I then did a push of my local repository to the remote repository.

When I go to my repository on the unix box and type in `git log` I get:
    
    fatal: bad default revision &#39;HEAD&#39;

But when I do a `show log` using my windows `tortoiseGit` client the history comes up nicely as per below...

    ---
    SHA-1: f879573ba3d8e62089b8c673257c928779f71692
    
    Initial drop of code
    
    ---
    master origin/master oms-phase4-v1.0.0
    SHA-1: 56176dbe45e6175b18c9f44533828806c63142ab
    
    OMS Phase 4 - Added OMS Cust. Order No. to EDI Purchase Order Header screens
    
    Tag Info
    
    object 56176dbe45e6175b18c9f44533828806c63142ab
    type commit
    tag oms-phase4-v1.0.0
    tagger Richard Riviere &lt;richard.riviere@myer.com.au&gt; 1364338495 +1100
    
    ---
    SHA-1: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
    
    Working dir changes
    0 files changed
    
    ---

The code has definitely been pushed to the remote repository. I&#39;ve been able to check by cloning the repository into a different directory.

Does anyone know why I am receiving the `fatal: bad default revision &#39;HEAD&#39;`?

p.s. It is a bare repository however I have created other bare repositories which have not had this problem.

fatal: bad default revision &#39;HEAD&#39;

I&#39;m new to Intellij Idea, i just import a project with `pom.xml`, but the ide didn&#39;t resolve anything in maven dependencies.

Anything defined in `pom.xml` dependencies when import in code raise an error `cannot resolve symbol xxxxx`

But `mvn install` will work, i try import the dependencies in `Project Settings/Libraries` in `.jar` files, then it works, but could the ide resolve libraries defined in `pom.xml`? i don&#39;t want to do that everytime.

Additionnal info:

IDEA version: 12.0.3, OS : windows 7, reimport does not work, maven version : 3.0.4, maven dependencies does not exists under Exernal Libraries.

there is no exceptions in idea.log...

Intellij idea cannot resolve anything in maven

I upgraded IntelliJ IDEA from 12.0.4 to 12.10.

Now all the modules in my Android project give the error:

&gt; **Error:** Default Activity Not Found

I reverted back to 12.0.4 and it everything works again.

Any ideas? I think it might be an issue with a missing plugin. Since the plugin is not installed, it is not able to find the default activity. Another thing could have been a local configuration, but I doubt it. I deleted the configuration folder to verify and that didn&#39;t change anything.



&quot;Default Activity Not Found&quot; on Android Studio upgrade

My directory structure in the Project seems to have disappeared. The first picture is the &quot;bad&quot;.  I recently upgraded to 12.1 and the vim emulator at about the same time.  I don&#39;t know if I missed a dialog that reset something?  I can&#39;t figure out how to get it back like the second picture.   
I&#39;ve tried to re-import the project but it has not helped.  I keep the project on Dropbox and have another PC where I have not reloaded project.  Is there a way to get my view from that machine?

![Bad][1]
   [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y4MLt.png


----------


The picture is the &quot;good&quot; and how I want it to look.  
![Good][2]
   [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/KEzMD.png

Intellij IDEA Project view doesn&#39;t show structure as it did before.

There is a freemarker file (ftl) in my IntelliJ project that is incorrectly recognized as a text file. There are many of the same type that are correct.

I am aware of the &quot;Mark as text&quot; option. This may be the original reason this file was marked as text but I am not provided with a &quot;mark as ftl file&quot; option to turn it back, if indeed this is the problem. If I mark other ftl files as txt, I am able to turn them back into ftl files as expected.

IntelliJ not recognizing a particular file correctly, instead it&#39;s stuck as a text file

&gt; unable to remove file that really exists - fatal: pathspec ... did not match any files

I have a file under git control that simply will not be deleted. The failing command is:
&lt;!-- language-all: sh --&gt;

    $ git rm .idea/workspace.xml
    fatal: pathspec &#39;.idea/workspace.xml&#39; did not match any files

Below I list the directory contents, branches, etc. So far I&#39;ve tried rm from within the directory, and escaping just in case there are funny characters, and I&#39;m really stumped. I searched the web and SO but couldn&#39;t find this specifically.


    $ git branch -a
    * dot-output
      master
      remotes/origin/HEAD -&gt; origin/master
      remotes/origin/master
      remotes/origin/modelspace
    $ 
    
    $ git status
    # On branch dot-output
    # Untracked files:
    # ...
    
    $ ls .idea/
    ant.xml			encodings.xml		modules.xml		workspace.xml
    compiler.xml		inspectionProfiles	scopes
    copyright		libraries		testrunner.xml
    dictionaries		misc.xml		vcs.xml
    
    $ ls -al
    total 56
    drwxr-xr-x  16 matt  staff    544 Apr 10 11:33 .
    drwxr-xr-x@ 33 matt  staff   1122 Apr 10 09:40 ..
    -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  staff  12292 Apr 10 11:19 .DS_Store
    drwxr-xr-x  18 matt  staff    612 Apr 10 11:39 .git
    -rw-r--r--   1 matt  staff     98 Mar  6 13:40 .gitignore
    drwxr-xr-x  16 matt  staff    544 Apr 10 11:34 .idea
    -rw-r--r--   1 matt  staff   1113 Feb 25 11:07 README
    ...
    
    $ head -n 2 .idea/workspace.xml
    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;project version=&quot;4&quot;&gt;
    
    $ git rm .idea/workspace.xml
    fatal: pathspec &#39;.idea/workspace.xml&#39; did not match any files

### Update

 Answers from @Nevik and @Boris helped a lot. I realized that I was confused by a number of things going on, some of which were exacerbated by IntelliJ IDEA (a tool I generally love, BTW). First, the &#39;fatal: pathspec&#39; message from `git rm` is both unhelpful and misleading.

Second, I had the file in `.gitignore`, but had removed it before asking my question. However, it was also included in IDEA&#39;s Ignored Files feature independently of git, and showed as such in the project viewer (instead of untracked, as git status showed). Finally, I had IDEA running while I was experimenting, and it looks like it was recreating the file immediately after my `rm`.

My takeaway is that if I&#39;m getting confusing Git behavior, make sure to quit IDEA and work solely in the command line (and gitk) while debugging.

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IntelliJ IDEA with Git remember author

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What does "cv-unqualified" mean in C++?

General decorator to wrap try except in python?

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