The convention is that the *.git* extension should be used for bare repositories, and left off of directories with a working tree. Git doesn&#39;t really care, but has a few convenience methods that make this fairly transparent.

For example, if you have a repository named **/tmp/foo.git** and you call `git clone file:///tmp/foo`, Git will first try to find **/tmp/foo**. If it doesn&#39;t exist, it will try **/tmp/foo.git** instead.

This does *not* work the other way around. If your directory is named **/tmp/foo** and you try to clone from **/tmp/foo.git** you will be told:

&gt; fatal: &#39;/tmp/foo.git&#39; does not appear to be a git repository

Most of the HTTP/HTTPS functionality is from your web server, not Git. Even if you&#39;re using [Smart HTTP transport][1], I suspect most of the magic happens in a server-side LocationMatch directive. Theory aside, some quick tests against GitHub show that it works the same way as the SSH and Git procotols in that respect, but your mileage may vary on other web servers.

  [1]: http://git-scm.com/2010/03/04/smart-http.html

I am getting very strange &quot;Premature end of file.&quot; exception for last few days on one of our servers. The *same* configuration XML works fine on another server. We are using Tomcat 5.0.28 on both these servers. This code has been working for ages (7+ years), only after recent server crash, we faced this problem on one of the servers. There is no change in XML as well as Java parsing code. :(

The only difference I can see is in Java versions - 

**Problem Server**
java version &quot;1.6.0_16&quot;
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_16-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.2-b01, mixed mode)

**Working Server**
java version &quot;1.6.0_07&quot;
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b23, mixed mode)

Here is the Java code that has been working for several years -

    private void readSource(final InputSource in ) {
    	try {
    		DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    		DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
    		Document doc = db.parse(in);
    		Element elt = doc.getDocumentElement();
    	
    		this.readElement( elt );
    	} catch ( Exception ex ) {
    		ex.printStackTrace();
    		throw new ConfigurationException( &quot;Unable to parse configuration information&quot;, ex );
    	}
    }

And here is the exception. 

    [Fatal Error] :-1:-1: Premature end of file.
    org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
            at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
            at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
            at com.circus.core.Configuration.readSource(Configuration.java:706)

I have already tried validating XML and found no errors there. Any idea where else can I look for possible problem? 

Any pointers would be highly appreciated!

TIA,
- Manish

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file for *VALID* XML

My web designer has provided me with updated fonts/icons that have been added to font awesome - he placed this in a local fonts folder. I was also given a font-awesome.css file. 

I copied the fonts folder into my assets directly and put font-awesome.css in assets/stylesheets.

The css is referenced correctly in my code, but none of the icons from the font folder get loaded.

Is there something I need to do to ensure everything gets loaded correctly and/or that the fonts folder is referenced?

Rails: Using Font Awesome

When I clone a repository, is there any difference between these two URLs?

 1. Without .git extension:

        git clone http://foo/repo

 2. With .git extension:

        git clone http://foo/repo.git

Why do some repository URLs end in .git while others don&#39;t?

When I clone a repository, is there any difference between these two URLs?
<ol>
<li>
Without .git extension:
<pre><code class="hljs language-bash">git clone http://foo/repo
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
With .git extension:
<pre><code class="hljs language-bash">git clone http://foo/repo.git
</code></pre>
</li>
</ol>

What is a changelist in IntelliJ IDEA? Is it similar to a commit? When adding one, I have the following options:

- Name (text field)
- Comment (text field)
- Make this changelist active (checkbox)
- Track context (checkbox)

What is a changelist in IntelliJ IDEA?

To use git effectively (and as intended) I make small atomic commits, while I do have longer sessions where I do change not only one thing. Thus, I make heavy use of `git add -p`. This doesn&#39;t work for completely new files, though, because I tend to forget them later on.

What I want to do is, tell `git` that there *is* a new file, I want it to track, but *not stage it*:

Example: Running `git status` produces:

    # On branch my-current-branch
    # Your branch is ahead of &#39;origin/my-current-branch&#39; by 2 commits.
    #
    # Changes to be committed:
    #
    &lt;&lt;STAGED SECTION&gt;&gt; // A
    #
    # Changes not staged for commit:
    #   (use &quot;git add &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to update what will be committed)
    #   (use &quot;git checkout -- &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to discard changes in working directory)
    #
    &lt;&lt;UNSTAGED-YET-KNOWN SECTION&gt;&gt; // B
    #
    # Untracked files:
    #   (use &quot;git add &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to include in what will be committed)
    #
    &lt;&lt;UNKNOWN SECTION&gt;&gt; // C

If I have a file `foo` in the C section, and I say `git add foo` it will go to the A section. If I say `git add -N foo` it will go to both A and B. However, that would mean it would be included in the next commit, at least as the fact that there is a new file.

I want it to go in section B exclusively, such that I can later add it to A with `git add -p` or `git add foo` (or whatever).

## Edit
Regarding the `add -N` solution, this doesn&#39;t work because if I try to commit after having said `add -N` and *not* having added it properly, git complains because it doesn&#39;t know how to handle empty files:

    foo: not added yet
    error: Error building trees

How can you git add a new file without staging it?

Say your `.ssh` directory contains 30 keys (15 private and 15 public).

Where in Git can one check which one is used to connect to a given remote repository?


Git and SSH, which key is used?

I have solved some merge conflicts, committed then tried to Push my changes and received the following error:

    c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe push --recurse-submodules=check &quot;origin&quot; master:master
    Done
    remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
    remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository
    remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent
    remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require &#39;git reset --hard&#39; to match
    remote: error: the work tree to HEAD.
    remote: error: 
    remote: error: You can set &#39;receive.denyCurrentBranch&#39; configuration variable to
    remote: error: &#39;ignore&#39; or &#39;warn&#39; in the remote repository to allow pushing into
    remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you
    remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some
    remote: error: other way.
    remote: error: 
    remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set
    remote: error: &#39;receive.denyCurrentBranch&#39; configuration variable to &#39;refuse&#39;.
    To C:/Development/GIT_Repo/Project
     ! [remote rejected] master -&gt; master (branch is currently checked out)
    error: failed to push some refs to &#39;C:/Development/GIT_Repo/Project&#39;


Does anyone know what could be causing this error?


Git Push error: refusing to update checked out branch

I have a C# Visual Studio project in a git repository. I want to ignore the contents `bin/Debug` directory but not the contents of the `bin/Release`&#39; directory. I&#39;ve added `bin/Debug` to my `.gitignore` file, but it doesn&#39;t seem to work - it is including the entire contents of the `bin` directory. What would the correct entry be to do this?

.gitignore and Visual Studio project: Ignore bin/Debug directory but not bin/Release directory

I want to remove all URLs inside a string (replace them with &quot;&quot;)
I searched around but couldn&#39;t really find what I want.

Example:

    text1
    text2
    http://url.com/bla1/blah1/
    text3
    text4
    http://url.com/bla2/blah2/
    text5
    text6
    http://url.com/bla3/blah3/
I want the result to be:

    text1
    text2
    text3
    text4
    text5
    text6

How to remove any URL within a string in Python

I am looking to make a skype link for a mobile site, is there a way use `&lt;a href=&quot;` to make it launch skype and add or call a user? 

Is there an href attribute for skype, like &quot;mailto:&quot; or &quot;tel:&quot;?

Example:

&lt;!-- language: none --&gt;

    www.site.com/index.php#hello

Using jQuery, I want to put the value `hello` in a variable:

    var type = …

How do I get the fragment identifier (value after hash #) from a URL?

I need to implement the following WebAPI method:

    /api/books?author=XXX&amp;title=XXX&amp;isbn=XXX&amp;somethingelse=XXX&amp;date=XXX

All of the query string parameters can be null. That is, the caller can specify from 0 to all of the 5 parameters.

In **MVC4 beta** I used to do the following:

    public class BooksController : ApiController
    {
        // GET /api/books?author=tolk&amp;title=lord&amp;isbn=91&amp;somethingelse=ABC&amp;date=1970-01-01
        public string GetFindBooks(string author, string title, string isbn, string somethingelse, DateTime? date) 
        {
            // ...
        }
    }

MVC4 RC doesn&#39;t behave like this anymore. If I specify fewer than 5 parameters, it replies with a `404` saying:

&gt;No action was found on the controller &#39;Books&#39; that matches the request.

What is the correct method signature to make it behave like it used to, without having to specify the optional parameter in the URL routing?

Optional query string parameters in ASP.NET Web API

My requirement is as follows:

I want to give actor name, start date, end date and get all the films he acted in that period. 

For that reason, my service request is like this. 

      http://localhost:8080/MovieDB/GetJson?name=Actor&amp;startDate=20120101&amp;endDate=20120505

Now, i want to improve it.
I want to give a start date, end date and more than one actor name and want to see all those actors movies in that period.

I am not sure how should my url look to support such thing.

   I am writing a java based web service using spring.

  Below code is to support one actor

       @RequestMapping(value = &quot;/GetJson&quot;, method = RequestMethod.GET) 
		public void getJson(@RequestParam(&quot;name&quot;) String ticker, @RequestParam(&quot;startDate&quot;) String startDate, @RequestParam(&quot;endDate&quot;) String endDate) {
       //code to get results from db for those params.
     }

One solution i am thinking is using a % symbol to seperate actor names. For example:

     http://localhost:8080/MovieDB/GetJson?name=Actor1%Actor2%Actor3&amp;startDate=20120101&amp;endDate=20120505

Now, in the controller i will parse the name string with % and get back all actors names.

Is this a good way to do this or is there a standard approach?

Thanks


how to send an array in url request

Does the wiki that installs with a GitHub repo support directories?  Our wiki is cluttered with pages, and we are looking for a way to organize them better.

We tried pulling the repo, creating local directories, and moving things around, but when committed back, the wiki didn&#39;t pick up the changes.

GitHub wiki directories

These days when I create a new repository on GitHub on the setup page I get:

    git remote add origin https://github.com/nikhilbhardwaj/abc.git
    git push -u origin master

And whenever I have to push a commit I need to enter my GitHub username and password.

I can manually change that to 

    git@github.com:nikhilbhardwaj/abc.git

in the `.git/config`. I find this quite irritating - **is there some way I can configure git to use SSH by default?**

How do I get git to default to ssh and not https for new repositories

I have: http://windows.github.com/

My current project has around 20k files, around 150MB (and not speaking about how slow it is and I cannot do a thing now) it doesn&#39;t even let me commit! I get this error:  Commit failed: Failed to create a new commit.

That seems that nobody is having.

I&#39;ve already deleted the folder and cloned again, no escape. What to do?

If I choose to open shell, all this *** crashes!


----------


**Edit:**
---------

**Since the problem I&#39;ve switched to [Git Extensions][1] and I didn&#39;t look back!**
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for your answers


  [1]: http://gitextensions.github.io/

Github windows: Commit failed: Failed to create a new commit

After investigating, I&#39;ve found mathjax can do this. But when I write some example in my markdown file, it doesn&#39;t show the correct equations:

I have added this in the head of markdown file:

&lt;!-- language: lang-html --&gt;

    &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=default&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

And type the mathjax statement:
```
$E=mc^2$，$$x_{1,2} = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2b}.$$
```
But github shows nothing for the math symbols! Please help me, thanks!
Tell me how to show math symbols in github markdown pages.

How to show math equations in general github&#39;s markdown(not github&#39;s blog)

I have already got a local master branch tracking the remote master branch of a github project. Now, a collaborator of mine has created a new branch in the same project, and I want to do the following accordingly:

1. create a new branch locally
2. make this new branch track the newly create remote branch.

How should I do it properly?

Track a new remote branch created on GitHub

I have one repo hosted at https://github.com/aikiframework/json . On my local copy, I added a submodule using the command

    git submodule add git@github.com:jcubic/json-rpc.git json-rpc

Then I did a commit and push, and the changes appear on GitHub (I can click on it). But when I clone the repo

    git clone https://github.com/aikiframework/json.git

the submodule folder json-rpc is empty.

What am I missing here? Did I forget about something? Why is that folder empty?

Empty Git submodule folder when repo cloned

Is there a flag to pass to `git` when doing a clone, say don&#39;t clone the `.git` directory? If not, how about a flag to delete the `.git` directory after the clone?

Git clone without .git directory

This command works to get the files and compile them:

    git clone a-valid-git-url

for example:

    git clone git://cfdem.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/cfdem/liggghts

However, `git status` (or any other git command) then gives the above `fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories)` error.

What am I doing wrong?


 

&quot;fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories)&quot; from git status

I am trying to clone a remote repository on Windows, but when I did this:

    git clone git@github.com:organization/xxx.git

I got this error:


    error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory
    fatal: unable to fork

Am I missing something?


error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory when trying to clone on windows

I know I can get the project through `git clone` command, but is there any way, how to download the project through the web interface from [BitBucket.org][1]?
In the best way, I am looking for a way to download a project source as ZIP compress file.


  [1]: https://bitbucket.org/

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Why do some repository URLs end in .git while others don't?

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