If by &quot;checked out&quot; you mean people who have cloned your project, then no it is not possible. You don&#39;t even need to be a GitHub user to clone a repository, so it would be infeasible to track this.

## Use the GitHub Network Graph to Track Forks

You have no way to see who has checked out your repository using standard git commands such as `git clone`, but you *can* see who has forked your repository on GitHub using the [Network Graph Visualizer][1]. At the time of this answer, you can access this feature in at least two ways:

1. From the &quot;Network&quot; tab just to the right of the &quot;Code&quot; tab on the navigation bar at the top of your repository.
2. By clicking on the numbers (if non-zero) in the call-out just to the right of the &quot;Fork&quot; widget on the right-hand side.

For example, here is a partial screenshot of the [rbenv network graph][2]:

![rbenv network graph][3]

The &quot;Members&quot; tab at the top of the Network Graph will also show you a different view, listing the names of the people who currently have forks on GitHub. It obviously will not show people who cloned outside of GitHub, or folks who have subsequently deleted their forks.

  [1]: https://github.com/blog/39-say-hello-to-the-network-graph-visualizer
  [2]: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv/network
  [3]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/wbDhB.jpg

I believe this is an old question, and the Traffic was introduced by Github in 2014. [Here is the link][1] to the description of Traffic, that tells you the views on your repositories.


  [1]: https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-analytics

Go to the traffic section inside graphs. Here you can find how many unique visitors you have. Other than this there is no other way to know who exactly viewed your account.


Let us say we have a project **social_login**. To check the traffic to your repo, you can goto https://github.com/&lt;username&gt;/social_login/graphs/traffic


***

 - Example:-

   https://github.com/balireddypraveen/social_login/graphs/traffic

In python, `set()` is an unordered collection with no duplicate elements. However, I am not able to understand how it generates the output. 

For example, consider the following: 

    &gt;&gt;&gt; x = [1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3]
    &gt;&gt;&gt; set(x)
    set([1, 2, 3])

    &gt;&gt;&gt; y = [1, 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8]
    &gt;&gt;&gt; set(y)
    set([8, 1, 6])

    &gt;&gt;&gt; z = [1, 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7]
    &gt;&gt;&gt; set(z)
    set([1, 6, 7])

Shouldn&#39;t the output of `set(y)` be: `set([1, 6, 8])`? I tried the above two in Python 2.6.

Understanding the set() function

I&#39;m writing a Python script that needs to write some data to a temporary file, then create a subprocess running a C++ program that will read the temporary file.  I&#39;m trying to use [`NamedTemporaryFile`](http://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile) for this, but according to the docs,

&gt; Whether the name can be used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is still open, varies across platforms (it can be so used on Unix; it cannot on Windows NT or later).

And indeed, on Windows if I flush the temporary file after writing, but don&#39;t close it until I want it to go away, the subprocess isn&#39;t able to open it for reading.

I&#39;m working around this by creating the file with `delete=False`, closing it before spawning the subprocess, and then manually deleting it once I&#39;m done:

    fileTemp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete = False)
    try:
        fileTemp.write(someStuff)
        fileTemp.close()
        # ...run the subprocess and wait for it to complete...
    finally:
        os.remove(fileTemp.name)

This seems inelegant.  Is there a better way to do this?  Perhaps a way to open up the permissions on the temporary file so the subprocess can get at it?

How to create a temporary file that can be read by a subprocess?

I&#39;m wondering if there is any way to know who has checked out my project hosted on GitHub? This would include people who have forked the project directly on GitHub, as well as people who may have cloned the repository using standard `git clone` commands.

Is it possible to find out the users who have checked out my project on GitHub?

<p>I'm wondering if there is any way to know who has checked out my project hosted on GitHub? This would include people who have forked the project directly on GitHub, as well as people who may have cloned the repository using standard <code>git clone</code> commands.</p>


I have a project together with several people and we have a `README.md` file with a bunch of GitHub Flavored Markdown that is rendered on our GitHub page. We also set up a GitHub Pages branch which is hosted under our GitHub Organization&#39;s subdomain, and used the [**Automatic Page Generator**][1] simply loading in our `README.md` file when we created our page. However, I notice that when I update our `README.md` file, it does not update the project page. Instead, we must go to the GitHub settings tab and recreate the project page, reloading the `README.md` file when we do it. 

Also, after reading about [**relative linking**][2] working between documentation files on the GitHub project directory pages. I very much like the markdown as it saves tons of time from having to write all the HTML out by hand for our documentation. What I would like however is to be able to have one `README.md` file which is able to include relative links to other documentation files located at `docs/*.md`. I was hoping there was an easy solution so that my other documentation files might also be included in my gh-pages branch and be hosted under my GitHub Pages subdomain and be rendered and/or themed.

In other words, my questions are:

* Is there a way to have my README.md file automatically update on my Github Page subdomain?
 - **[ EDIT ] :** No appears to be the answer if using the Automatic Page Generator. You must go to the settings page for the repo and reload it every time there is a change in order to update it.  
&amp;nbsp;
* Is there a way I can have my relative links to my documentation on my README.md file work on my Github Pages, perhaps my somehow syncing my `/docs/*.md` to my Github Pages and somehow rendering and/or theming them?
 - **[ EDIT ] :** From what I&#39;ve learned since writing this question it appears that this is only possible on GitHub pages through the use of a [**static site generator**][3] like the ruby gem [**Jekyll**][4] and probably some uses of the [**webhooks supported by GitHub**][5] that are mentioned in the comments below. I am trying currently trying to find an optimal solution.  
&amp;nbsp;
* Better yet, is there an even easier way I can do this and perhaps have just one copy of my README.md and documentation that is used on both gh-pages and my main branch and makes everything easiest?
 - **[ EDIT ] :** It seems this one is almost definitely a no. I was thinking about the possibility of something built into GitHub to allow this. It seems that better support for this kind of thing may could be built into GitHub Pages in the future, or at least I definitely hope it will be.  
&amp;nbsp;

  [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-pages-with-the-automatic-generator
  [2]: https://github.com/blog/1395-relative-links-in-markup-files
  [3]: http://www.mzlinux.org/?q=node/415
  [4]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
  [5]: https://help.github.com/articles/post-receive-hooks

How can I sync documentation with Github Pages?

I am using SSH to clone a git repo to my web server, but every time I get this error

    $git clone git@github.com:aleccunningham/marjoram.git
    Cloning into marjoram...
    Host key verification failed.
I have tried almost everything that has shown up in Google searches, and I am dumbfounded on why this will not work. Any ideas?

Also, I am not using anything like Jenkins.

Cloning git repo causes error - Host key verification failed. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

How to make git use a socks proxy for HTTP transport?

I succeed in configuring git with GIT_PROXY_COMMAND to use a socks proxy for GIT transport.

Also, I have configured my .curlrc file to defined the socks proxy and I can fetch information directly with curl command like:

    curl http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

But how to use a socks proxy with git to retrieve data using the HTTP transport protocol like:
    
    git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git

Using a socks proxy with git for the http transport

So I understand that heroku functions as a git repository, but let&#39;s say i want to use github as well as a repository. How do I set it up such that I have two repositories and both are in sync? 

heroku and github at the same time

I have a repo called `myrepo` on the remote `beanstalk` server.

I cloned it to my local machine. Created two additional branches: `staging` and `dev`.
Pushed these branches to remote as well.

Now: 

     local                   remote                   server
     --------------------------------------------------------  
     master  ==&gt; Pushes to  `master`  ==&gt; deployed to `prod`
     staging ==&gt; Pushes to  `staging` ==&gt; deployed to `staging`
     dev     ==&gt; Pushes to  `dev`     ==&gt; deployed to `dev`

I have a file called `config.xml` which is different on each branch.

I want to ignore this file only during merges. But I want this to be included when I checkout or commit from/to the repo branch.

The reason I want this is, we have a deploy script that pulls (checkout) the specific branch and deploys on the respective servers. So we need `config.xml` file of that specific branch go into the specific server as indicated above when deployed.

I guess `.gitignore` wont work. What are the other options? Note that the ignored file should be part of checkout and commit, which is important. it should be ignored only during merges.

Thanks!

Git - Ignore files during merge

When I tried to run

    git push origin master --force

I just got

    Counting objects: 2649, done.
    Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (1280/1280), done.
    error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 413 | 116 KiB/s   
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
    Writing objects: 100% (2504/2504), 449.61 MiB | 4.19 MiB/s, done.
    Total 2504 (delta 1309), reused 2242 (delta 1216)
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
    Everything up-to-date

Is it something to do with not being secure? I tried creating a public key as in the answer for [Fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14967621/fatal-the-remote-end-hung-up-unexpectedly) and running it again, but it still doesn&#39;t work. Am I not actually using the key? If so, how do I use it?

Git, fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I&#39;ve been making continuous commits to my `GitHub` repos from my linux shell and they show up nicely on the website just as they should. The only problem is that &quot;Your Contributions&quot; section doesn&#39;t show any recent activity. I have one green square from some day in November which I don&#39;t know how I got but all the other contributions don&#39;t show up in the calendar (but again, they **do**  show up in their repos.  
What am I missing here?


[My github site][1]


  [1]: https://github.com/roey-angel

GitHub commits aren&#39;t recorded in the &#39;Your Contributions` calendar

Using the github webhooks, I would like to be able to pull any changes to a remote development server. At the moment, when in the appropriate directory, `git pull` gets any changes that need to be made. However, I can&#39;t figure out how to call that function from within Python. I have tried the following:

&lt;!-- language: lang-python --&gt;

    import subprocess
    process = subprocess.Popen(&quot;git pull&quot;, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    output = process.communicate()[0]

But this results in the following error

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File &quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py&quot;, line 679, in __init__
        errread, errwrite)
      File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py&quot;, line 1249, in _execute_child
        raise child_exception
    OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Is there a way that I can call this bash command from within Python?




How can I call &#39;git pull&#39; from within Python?

I am trying to set up Bower on a build server at our organization&#39;s data center, but `git`&#39;s port does not appear to be open on the data center&#39;s firewall.  I can use the git command line client to clone via `https://[repo]`, but not `git://[repo]`.

Is there a switch or preference which will instruct bower to perform git clone using `https` rather than the `git` protocol?

I&#39;ve looked at the source, and considered changing the resolution code to replace `git://` with `https://`, but I figured I&#39;d ask before I go to those lengths.

Bower install using only https?

I&#39;m trying to clone a remote repository on github, but it is big and my connection doesn&#39;t seem to be stable enough, so I can&#39;t clone it successfully.

But I have successfully downloaded the .zip of the repository.

Is there a way to use this zip as it was created by git clone, so I can push, pull etc..?

How to clone git repository from its zip

I am trying to clone the [angular-phonecat git repository][1], but I am getting the following message when I enter the command in my Git Bash:

    $ git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git  
    Cloning into &#39;angular-phonecat&#39;...  
    fatal: unable to connect to github.com:  
    github.com[0: 204.232.175.90]: errno=No error


  [1]: https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat

Unable to Connect to GitHub.com For Cloning

I&#39;m trying to clone my fork of the kivy git, but it&#39;s not working. I&#39;ve made the fork correctly, I believe, but when I type this into my Mac terminal:

&gt; git clone https://github.com/mygitusername/kivy.git

I get this error:

&gt; fatal: could not create work tree dir &#39;kivy.: Permission denied

Anyone see what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

fatal: could not create work tree dir &#39;kivy&#39;

My understanding is that the default branch of a cloned repository is to be whatever HEAD points to in the repo being cloned.

I now have a case where this is not true. My understanding is obviously flawed, so what does determine the default checkout branch when cloning a (bare) repo?

The last commit on that repo was a merge between the branch referenced in the bare repo&#39;s HEAD into the branch I&#39;m getting as the checkout branch in the clone.

Running `git remote show origin` returns:

    Fetch URL: ...
    Push  URL: ...
    HEAD branch (remote HEAD is ambiguous, may be one of the following):
      &lt;bad-branch&gt;
      live
    Remote branches:
      ...

Bare repo uses Git version 1.8.2.1, client uses 1.7.12.4, transport is SSH.

Maybe the answer is actually [this one here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13061364/why-git-remote-show-name-display-remote-head-is-ambiguous-may-be-one-of-the). [This answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2574517/error-with-git-remote-head-is-ambiguous-may-be-one-of-the-following) confirms it. If there is a choice of symbolic refs all pointing to the same revision as HEAD, the client will _guess_ which branch to use. 

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Is it possible to find out the users who have checked out my project on GitHub?

Git Problem Overview

Git Solutions

Solution 1 - Git

Solution 2 - Git

Use the GitHub Network Graph to Track Forks

Solution 3 - Git

Solution 4 - Git

Solution 5 - Git

How to create a temporary file that can be read by a subprocess?

Understanding the set() function

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