    git checkout -b myBranchName repo2/master

The `git pull` command is a convenience function that does `git fetch` and `git merge`.  If you only want retrieve branches from a new remote without trying to merge it into any working copy branch you can just use `git fetch`.  You can then refer to `git branch -av` to see all the local and remote branches and operate on either remote as you like.

I have read that converting a function pointer to a data pointer and vice versa works on most platforms but is not guaranteed to work. Why is this the case? Shouldn&#39;t both be simply addresses into main memory and therefore be compatible?

Why are function pointers and data pointers incompatible in C/C++?

I would like to copy the contents of a variable (here called `var`) into a file.

The name of the file is stored in another variable `destfile`. 

I&#39;m having problems doing this. Here&#39;s what I&#39;ve tried:

    cp $var $destfile

I&#39;ve also tried the same thing with the dd command... Obviously the shell thought that `$var` was referring to a directory and so told me that the directory could not be found. 

How do I get around this?

Shell - Write variable contents to a file

Alright I did a little bit of research on this but I couldn&#39;t find an exact answer, so I have to ask.

I have 2 remotes: origin and repo2.

I&#39;d like to do something like

    git pull repo2 master

But this would pull the master branch of the repo2 into my master. Can I specify a different branch to pull into, for my local branch ?



Pull remote branch into local repo with different name?

Alright I did a little bit of research on this but I couldn't find an exact answer, so I have to ask.
I have 2 remotes: origin and repo2.
I'd like to do something like
<pre><code class="hljs">git pull repo2 master
</code></pre>
But this would pull the master branch of the repo2 into my master. Can I specify a different branch to pull into, for my local branch ?

I am pretty new to git. I have been primarily checking stuff into a repository, but now I want to get the latest changes from another developer.

I tried to simply do a command like `git pull` something ran, but it came back with a message like this:

    There is no tracking information for the current branch.
    Please specify which branch you want to merge with.
    See git-pull(1) for details
    
        git pull &lt;remote&gt; &lt;branch&gt;
    
    If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:
    
        git branch --set-upstream develop origin/&lt;branch&gt;

So then I did `git pull my_branch_name`

and it came back with this:

    fatal: &#39;develop&#39; does not appear to be a git repository
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

but I had done `git checkout my_branch` right before that.

Could someone please let me know what I did wrong and how I can simply get the latest files that had been checked in?

Thanks!

git - new user trying to do pull and getting some confusing messages

I want to find out who created a branch.

I am sort of able to do so with:

    git branch -a | xargs -L 1 bash -c &#39;echo &quot;$1 `git log --pretty=format:&quot;%H %an&quot; $1^..$1`&quot;&#39; _

However, this returns the last committer per branch, not necessarily the person who created the branch.


Find out a Git branch creator

I&#39;ve been facing problems accessing my git repository lately.  It worked perfectly fine earlier but now I cannot run any command on CLI. I can however, access the corresponding Web Page, Could someone help me how to resolve this issue?

git pull error &quot;The requested URL returned error: 503 while accessing&quot;

When I try to do a basic `git add *.erb` (or any simple wildcard expressions) git is not recognizing it (them). As a side-note, I have never done this before so I&#39;m sure it&#39;s a rookie mistake, but I&#39;ve found no help in other SO posts or my school&#39;s alumni listserv so I thought this post may be appropriate.

For (a different) example, **git status** is giving me:

    #	modified:   config/routes.rb
    #	modified:   spec/models/question_spec.rb

I wanted to only stage the routes file, so I tried **git add *s.rb** and no dice. I am in the root of the app...do I need to be in the directory that contains the file(s) I&#39;m trying to apply the wildcard expression to? That would be painful, but...actually...it just worked.

Hope this doesn&#39;t have to be a separate post, but is there an easier way to use wildcards where you don&#39;t have to cd into the specific directory?

&quot;git add&quot; using wildcard is not functioning as I hoped - must I cd into specific directories?

When I&#39;m going to tag a commit, I need to know what changed since the last tagged commit. Eg:

    a87a6sdf87a6d4 Some new feature
    a87a6sdf87a6d3 Some bug fix
    a87a6sdf87a6d2 Some comments added
    a87a6sdf87a6d1 Some merge &lt;- v1.4.0

In this example I would like to know about the 3 newest commits, or be able to print a log like above, that shows both commits their tags if any. And when I see there has been a new feature added, I would tag it v1.5.0.

How do you deal with this? Is this how I&#39;m supposed to use tags? What should I write in the tag message? I always leave it blank: `git tag -a v1.2.3 -m &#39;&#39;`

Get all git commits since last tag

I&#39;ve been looking at the Markdown syntax used in GitHub for a while, but except resizing an image to the width of the `README.md` page, I can&#39;t figure out how to center an image in it.

Is this possible? If so, how can I do it?


How do I center an image in the README.md file on GitHub?

Is there any way on [GitHub][1] to list all commits made by a single author, in the browser (neither locally, e.g. via `git log`, nor via the API)?

Clicking on a user name in the list of commits (Commit History) simply leads to that user&#39;s profile page. Examining the GitHub UI and searching (Google, StackOverflow) does not reveal a way to do this.


  [1]: http://github.com/

GitHub - List commits by author

Is there a way to know who has forked my repository on GitHub? I can see the number of forks, but I&#39;d like to know who forked my repository and what kind of changes they made to it.

I know they can send me a pull request if they&#39;re interested in contributing back to my repository, but is there some other way for me to find out who forked my repository?

How can I tell who forked my repository on GitHub?

I need to delete a master branch, but it&#39;s proving to be hard.  I just want to clean that branch out and start new.  I am deleting from the dev branch.  I want master on GitHub to be clean.


     # git push origin --delete master

    &gt; To https://github.com/mymasterb.git  ! [remote rejected] master
    &gt; (deletion of the current branch prohibited) error: failed to push some
    &gt; refs to &#39;https://github.com/mymaster.git&#39;

How do I quite simply start my master with a fresh slate?

I can&#39;t delete a remote master branch on git

The development machine cannot access the internet, and take about 60s to timeout. When I try to build, I see 

    Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/google/gsa-connector/2.8.0/gsa-connector-2.8.0.pom


However, I have the following in my POM:


        &lt;repository&gt;
          &lt;id&gt;bb-nexus&lt;/id&gt;
          &lt;url&gt;http://repo.dev.bloomberg.com/content/groups/public&lt;/url&gt;
          &lt;releases&gt;&lt;enabled&gt;true&lt;/enabled&gt;&lt;/releases&gt;
          &lt;snapshots&gt;&lt;enabled&gt;true&lt;/enabled&gt;&lt;/snapshots&gt;
        &lt;/repository&gt;
        &lt;repository&gt;
          &lt;id&gt;nexus-3rdparty&lt;/id&gt;
          &lt;url&gt;http://repo.dev.bloomberg.com/content/repositories/thirdparty/&lt;/url&gt;
          &lt;releases&gt;&lt;enabled&gt;true&lt;/enabled&gt;&lt;/releases&gt;
          &lt;snapshots&gt;&lt;enabled&gt;true&lt;/enabled&gt;&lt;/snapshots&gt;
        &lt;/repository&gt;


It always tries to go to repo.maven first. I even tried to add to D:\\.m2\settings.xml

    &lt;settings&gt;
      &lt;mirrors&gt;
        &lt;mirror&gt;
          &lt;!--This sends everything else to /public --&gt;
          &lt;id&gt;nexus&lt;/id&gt;
          &lt;mirrorOf&gt;*&lt;/mirrorOf&gt;
          &lt;url&gt;http://repo.dev.bloomberg.com/content/groups/public&lt;/url&gt;
        &lt;/mirror&gt;
      &lt;/mirrors&gt;

based on http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-mirror-settings.html yet it continues to try repo.maven first. I&#39;m using Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 03:44:56-0500)

I can&#39;t use -o because it still needs to access the local repo.dev.

---------
Here is with &#39;effective-settings&#39;:

    D:\Users\chloe\Projects\team\confluence-plugin&gt;mvn help:effective-settings
    [INFO] Scanning for projects...
    Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-install-plugin/maven-metadata.xml
    [WARNING] Could not transfer metadata org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin/maven-metadata.xml from/to central (
    http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Connection to http://repo.maven.apache.org refused
    ...
    [INFO]
    [INFO] --- maven-help-plugin:2.1.1:effective-settings (default-cli) @ bb-confluence-plugin ---
    [INFO]
    Effective user-specific configuration settings:
    
    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
    ...
    &lt;settings xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0&quot; xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot; xsi:schemaLoca
    tion=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.1.0.xsd&quot;&gt;
      &lt;localRepository xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.1.0&quot;&gt;d:\.m2\repository&lt;/localRepository&gt;
      &lt;pluginGroups xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.1.0&quot;&gt;
        &lt;pluginGroup&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/pluginGroup&gt;
        &lt;pluginGroup&gt;org.codehaus.mojo&lt;/pluginGroup&gt;
      &lt;/pluginGroups&gt;
    &lt;/settings&gt;
    
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------






How do you stop maven from trying to access http://repo.maven.apache.org?

After checking *[How can I upload my project&#39;s Git repository to GitHub?][1]*, I still have no idea how to get a project uploaded to my GitHub repository.

I&#39;m new to GitHub and I have no idea what to do. I created a repository, but I want to upload my project to it.

I&#39;ve looked on the repository page for an upload button of some kind, but I haven&#39;t seen anything of the sort.

I&#39;ve looked at the links provided so far, but I&#39;m still getting nowhere. They mention command line; is that Windows command line or [Git Bash][2]? Because I can&#39;t get either to do anything.

I also tried using the Git GUI, but when I select the folder I want it says that it&#39;s not a Git repository...does it need to be zipped up? I tried adding the `.gitconfig` file in the folder, but it doesn&#39;t make a difference.

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/6674752/5740428
  [2]: https://superuser.com/questions/1053633/what-is-git-bash-for-windows-anyway







How to upload a project to GitHub

If I understand correctly, Git has two sorts of repositories: one called local, another called remote. My questions are extremely naive ones about the two types of repositories.

Is that correct to say 

* Git local repository is the one on which we will make local changes, typically this local repository is on our computer. 

* Git remote repository is  the one of the server, typically a machine situated at 42 miles away.

Another question: some tutorial shows me this workflow

 - mkdir myproject 
 - cd myproject
 - git init
 - touch README
 - git add README
 - git commit -a -m &quot;

I see that `git init` creates myproject a local repository. What I don&#39;t understand is the 
`git commit` command. If I have not yet set a remote repository, how can Git know where to commit my `README` file??

I hope I was clear. 

[EDIT] The way I am using Git might be different from others:
I use a private Git  repository to backup my codes. So I think I do need a remote repository. The local repository should be nonsense in this case. Am I right? Thanks for your clarification.  These are the most naive questions that I cannot find replies anywhere else...  


Git&#39;s local repository and remote repository -- confusing concepts

I would like to make a Join query using Jpa repository with annotation @Query.

I have two tables:

     table user 
     with iduser,user_name 

and: 

     table area 
     with idarea, area_name and iduser

The native query is:

     SELECT
     u.user_name 
     FROM
      user as u 
      INNER JOIN area as a ON a.iduser = u.iduser
      WHERE
      a.idarea = 4

 Now I have a Table Hibernate entity 
 User and Area

So I tried with UserRespository 

    @Query(SELECT  u.userName FROM  User u 
      INNER JOIN Area a ON a.idUser = u.idUser
      WHERE
      a.idArea = :idArea)
    List&lt;User&gt; findByIdarea(@Param(&quot;idArea&quot;) Long idArea);

The Log says:

&gt; unexpected token:

Any Idea, please?

My table Entity
    
    #User Table
    @Entity
    @Table(name=&quot;user&quot;)
    public class User implements Serializable {

	    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	
	    private Long idUser;
	    private String userName;
	
	    @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
	    @Column(name=&quot;iduser&quot;)
	    public Long getIdUser() {
		    return idUser;
	    }

	    public void setIdUser(Long idUser) {
		    this.idUser = idUser;
	    }
	
	    @Column(name=&quot;user_name&quot;)
	    public String getUserName() {
		    return userName;
	    }

	    public void setUserName(String userName) {
		    this.userName = userName;
	    }
    }

    #AREA table

    @Entity
    @Table(name=&quot;area&quot;)
    public class Area  implements Serializable {

	    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	
	    private Long idArea;
	    private String areaName;
	    private Long idUser;
	
	    @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
	    @Column(name=&quot;idarea&quot;)
	    public Long getIdArea() {
		    return idArea;
	    }
	
        public void setIdArea(Long idArea) {
		    this.idArea = idArea;
	    }
	
	    @Column(name=&quot;area_name&quot;)
	    public String getAreaName() {
		    return areaName;
	    }
	
        public void setAreaName(String areaName) {
		    this.areaName = areaName;
	    }
	
	    @Column(name=&quot;iduser&quot;)
	    public Long getIdUser() {
		    return idUser;
	    }
	
        public void setIdUser(Long idUser) {
		    this.idUser = idUser;
	    }		
    }

How To Define a JPA Repository Query with a Join

I&#39;m having a problem with some Spring bean definitions. I have a couple of context xml files that are being loaded by my main() method, and both of them contain almost exclusively a &lt;context:component-scan&gt; tag. When my main method starts up, I get this error from Spring:

    Caused by: org.springframework.context.annotation.ConflictingBeanDefinitionException: Annotation-specified bean name &#39;converterDAO&#39; for bean class [my.package.InMemoryConverterDaoImpl] conflicts with existing, non-compatible bean definition of same name and class [my.other.package.StaticConverterDAOImpl]

Both DAO classes are annotated this way:

    @Repository(&quot;converterDAO&quot;)
    public class StaticConverterDAOImpl implements ConverterDAO {
    ...
    }

The in-memory dao also has the @Repository(&quot;converterDAO&quot;) annotation. The dao is referenced in other classes like this:

    ...
    private @Autowired @Qualifier(&quot;converterDAO&quot;) ConverterDAO converterDAO;
    ...

I want one DAO to override the definition of the other one, which as I always understood it was one of the principal reasons to use a DI framework in the first place. I&#39;ve been doing this with xml &lt;bean&gt; definitions for years and never had any problems. But not so with component scans and annotated bean definitions? And what does Spring mean when it says they are not &quot;compatible&quot;? They implement the same interface, and they are autowired into fields that are of that interface type. Why the heck are they not compatible?

Can someone provide me with a way for one annotated, component-scanned bean to override another?

-Mike


Content Type	Original Author	Original Content on Stackoverflow
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Pull remote branch into local repo with different name?

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