The **-u** option does the following:
For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add an upstream (tracking) reference, used by argument-less, git-pull and other commands.

So, after pushing your local branch with the **-u** option, this local branch will be automatically linked with the remote branch, and you can use git pull without any arguments.

It&#39;s the same as `--set-upstream`

It&#39;s used to set origin as the upstream remote in your git config.

It may help if you don&#39;t want to manually specify the remote every time you run git push.

**Also ...**

As you&#39;re new to [stackOverflow][1], take your time to read [What types of questions should I avoid asking?][2] section of the [Help][3] because sometimes you can find the answers by simply browsing [the documentation][4].


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/help/dont-ask
  [3]: https://stackoverflow.com/help
  [4]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html

Previously in 2012, if I debugged in Chrome (for example), and then stopped the debugger, the website would remain running in IIS Express. This no longer seems to be the case in 2013. 

Is this a new change that I need to make? How can I keep the website instance running even after I stop the debugger? Thanks.

How can I prevent Visual Studio 2013 from closing my IIS Express app when I end debugging?

I have a small issue trying to keep my .html pages at a consistent width on Chrome,
For example I have a page (1) with lots of contents that overflows the viewport&#39;s (right word?) height, so there&#39;s a vertical scroll-bar on that page (1). On page (2) i have the same layout (menus, divs,...etc) but less content, so no vertical scroll-bars in there.

The problem is that on page (1) the scroll-bars seem to push elements slightly to the left (adding-up to the width?) while everything appears well centered on page (2)

I&#39;m still a beginner on HTML/CSS/JS, and I&#39;m fairly convinced that this isn&#39;t so difficult, but i had no luck figuring out the solution. It does work as intended on IE10, and FireFox (non-interfering scroll-bars), I only encountered this on Chrome.

Prevent scroll-bar from adding-up to the Width of page on Chrome

I was just wondering what does the `-u` flag mean in this command? 

    git push -u origin master



What does the -u flag mean in git push -u origin master?

<p>I was just wondering what does the <code>-u</code> flag mean in this command?</p>
<pre><code class="hljs language-perl">git <span class="hljs-keyword">push</span> -u origin master
</code></pre>


I have a site as a remote Git repo pulling from Bitbucket.com using an SSH alias. I can manually start the ssh-agent on my server but I have to do this every time I login via SSH.

I manually start the ssh-agent:

    eval ssh-agent $SHELL

Then I add the agent:

    ssh-add ~/.ssh/bitbucket_id

Then it shows up when I do:

    ssh-add -l

And I&#39;m good to go. Is there any way to automate this process so I don&#39;t have to do it every time I login? The server is running RedHat 6.2 (Santiago).

Start ssh-agent on login

I often need to relay my Git output to my ever-friendly code buddies. The best way I know how is by doing this:

    Right-click Git Bash title bar &gt; Edit &gt; Mark &gt; Select lines &gt; Enter

Bam - everything I selected is in my clipboard, and I am filled with joy.

Problem is, that&#39;s the boring way, and I like my relationship with Git to be full of **excitement** and **glamour**.

In Windows, you can pipe console output to your clipboard like-a so:

    C:\&gt; dir | clip

Amazing, right? Well, when you try to do something that in Git Bash, here&#39;s what happens:

    &gt; git branch | clip
    sh.exe&quot;: clip: command not found

And that makes me sad. Is there a way to pipe Git Bash output to my clipboard in Windows so I can once again be filled with joy?

Piping output from Git Bash to clipboard

I started using git sometime back and do not fully understand the intricacies. My basic question here is to find out the difference between a `git pull` and `git pull --rebase` , since adding the `--rebase` option does not seem to do something very different : just does a pull.

Please help me with understanding the difference.

Difference between git pull and git pull --rebase

What should the typical `.gitignore` include for Xcode 6?



Also for information regarding the `xccheckout` introduced in Xcode 5 see [here][1]


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/18340453/2158465

What should Xcode 6 gitignore file include?

&gt; I keep myself telling me and others not to commit .classpath and
&gt; .project files and use Maven.

Somehow, Junior developers always ignore certain rules and commits those files and it&#39;s much better to have such files for newbies who can jump and start using the code.

Now from myside, I would like to try/do something. When I clone the repo, I will get .classpath and .project files and certainly they get modified in my system. 

&gt; But I want them not to be committed and should always be ignored while
&gt; synchronizing with Git. So that my changes in local system doesn&#39;t
&gt; mess up with Git and Git changes of those files doesn&#39;t mess up my
&gt; local files.

How do I achieve this? Anyway to mark those files to be ignored in such a way?

Ignore .classpath and .project from Git

I am trying to authenticate with GitHub using a personal access token. In the help files at GitHub, it states to use the cURL method to authenticate (*[Creating a personal access token][1]*). I have tried this, but I still cannot push to GitHub. Please note, I am trying to push from an unauthenticated server ([Travis CI][2]).

    cd $HOME
    git config --global user.email &quot;emailaddress@yahoo.com&quot;
    git config --global user.name &quot;username&quot;

    curl -u &quot;username:&lt;MYTOKEN&gt;&quot; https://github.com/username/ol3-1.git
    git clone --branch=gh-pages https://github.com/username/ol3-1.git gh-pages

    cd gh-pages
    mkdir buildtest
    cd buildtest
    touch asdf.asdf

    git add -f .
    git commit -m &quot;Travis build $TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER pushed to gh-pages&quot;
    git push -fq origin gh-pages

This code causes the errors:

&gt; remote: Anonymous access to scuzzlebuzzle/ol3-1.git denied.

&gt; fatal: Authentication failed for &#39;https://github.com/scuzzlebuzzle/ol3-1.git/&#39;&quot;

  [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_CI




Authenticate with GitHub using a token

I know that the GitHub web interface lets you search all repositories for files with a particular pathname (e.g. searching for `path:/app/models/user.rb` yields &gt; 109k results), but is there a way to search all repositories for filenames independent of their subdirectory location?  I tried using asterisks in the `path` argument, and that didn&#39;t seem to work.

Is it possible to search for a particular filename on GitHub?

Github parses and displays a readme.txt or readme.md file at the root of the repository.

I would like to create a similar readme file for a particular folder. Is there a way to accomplish this?

&lt;s&gt;One ugly hack I thought of was to name the file _readmeme.md causing it to appear as the first file in the folder, and making it easy for users to find and click it.&lt;/s&gt; - it doesn&#39;t work, _README appears **last** and not first.

Is there a way to create a folder-specific readme file in github?

Can I install/upgrade packages from GitHub using [conda][1]?

For example, with `pip` I can do:

    pip install git+git://github.com/scrappy/scrappy@master

to install `scrappy` directly from the `master` branch in GitHub. Can I do something equivalent with conda?

If this is not possible, would it make any sense to install pip with conda and manage such local installations with pip? 



  [1]: http://www.continuum.io/blog/conda

Conda: Installing / upgrading directly from github

Silly question and not on something that is so necessary, but is it possible to exclude files from Github&#39;s language statistics aggregation on top?

I have checked some external CSS and JavaScript frameworks to be compressed along with the rest of the source code. They get measured as part of the project although they have not been contributed from a team member. This means that the status bar does not reflect the exact state of the project.


Is it possible to exclude files from git language statistics?

Even after reading this question: [git-push-current-branch][1], I am still having difficulty figuring out how I should write my `git push` command. As mentioned in the question link, it&#39;s not clear from the documentation.

I would like to use my &#39;real world&#39; example. Following is what I see when I run the `git status` command on the top level of my branch:

&gt; On branch amd_qlp_tester
&gt; 
&gt; Your branch is ahead of &#39;origin/amd_qlp_tester&#39; by 5 commits.
&gt; 
&gt; etc...

My branch name is `amd_qlp_tester` but it was &quot;branched&quot; off from the main branch (if I have the terms wrong it&#39;s because of my SVN background). But then there is also the name `origin/amd_qlp_testser`

So how do I phrase my push command?

Is it any of the following?

    git push origin/amd_qlp_tester
    git push origin amd_qlp_tester
    git push amd_qlp_tester
    git push origin
    git push


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/948354/git-push-current-branch

git push to specific branch

This will be my first git use. I have added new files ( a lot ) to the folder/project ( git local repository).

I went through online tutorials and forums and see i can do 

```
git commit -a
```
So I go to the base folder of the repository and do a 
```
sudo git commit -a
```
But then, some screens comes up and asks me to add a comment which i do. i do not know how to proceed or exit. I do not want to mess up so i did ctrl + Z and did not do anything.

Can you guys please outline the commands I need to use?

    git commit -a 

and 

    git push?

How to add multiple files to Git at the same time

When I push to remote in Git, I get this warning:

    warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value is changing in
    Git 2.0 from &#39;matching&#39; to &#39;simple&#39;. To squelch this message
    and maintain the current behavior after the default changes, use:
    
      git config --global push.default matching
    
    To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:
    
      git config --global push.default simple
    
    See &#39;git help config&#39; and search for &#39;push.default&#39; for further information.
    (the &#39;simple&#39; mode was introduced in Git 1.7.11. Use the similar mode
    &#39;current&#39; instead of &#39;simple&#39; if you sometimes use older versions of Git)
    
    To **********************************
       6b9a6d2..3ab1eab  master -&gt; master

What does this warning mean and what should be done about it?

Git warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value is changing

I am fairly new to `git`, yet currently using it to manage our code in a team environment. I had some rebasing issues, and I fixed them using: 

    git checkout --ours filename.txt
    git add filename.txt
    git rebase --continue

Now I wish to push my changes, and so running the following command: 

    $ git push origin feature/my_feature_branch

Gave me the following error: 

    To ssh://git@coderepo.com:7999/repo/myproject.git
     ! [rejected]        feature/my_feature_branch -&gt; feature/my_feature_branch (non-fast-forward)
    error: failed to push some refs to &#39;ssh://git@coderepo.com:7999/repo/myproject.git&#39;
    hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
    hint: its remote counterpart. Merge the remote changes (e.g. &#39;git pull&#39;)
    hint: before pushing again.
    hint: See the &#39;Note about fast-forwards&#39; in &#39;git push --help&#39; for details.

What can I do to get rid of this error?

Note: I am avoiding the use of `--force` option as much as possible.

Git push rejected &quot;non-fast-forward&quot;

I want to push my commits to a Bitbucket repository but this error occurred:

    Fatal: unable to access
    &#39;https://myUsername@bitbucket.org/myUsername/myRepository.git/&#39;:
    Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443

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