I arrive a little late but will give you the trick!! &#128521;

In the File Explorer, call your file `.gitignore.` and it will remove the ending &#39;.&#39;

A strange behavior from the file explorer but, hey!, it works &#128517;

Or create it from a text editor... 

Windows Explorer doesn&#39;t allow you to create files that consist essentially of a file extension only. This is because Windows Explorer has the option to hide file extensions, leaving you with a file you cannot see (see [Why doesn’t Explorer let you create a file whose name begins with a dot?](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080414-00/?p=22763)). This is not a restriction of Windows itself, or the file system in use, though.

To create a file named *.gitignore*, you will have to use another tool to create it. A common solution is to create a text file (e.g. *test.txt*), open it in Notepad, and select *Save As...* to rename the file to *.gitignore*.

The Windows command interpreter also allows you to create files without imposing the additional restrictions of Windows Explorer. A more direct solution would then be to create the file from the command line. This can be done using the following command:

    copy NUL .gitignore
&lt;hr/&gt;
*Note: When dealing with files that don&#39;t have a name, it&#39;s helpful to disable the option* &quot;Hide extensions for known file types&quot; *in Windows Explorer. Otherwise Windows Explorer might show files with no names, or hide them altogether.*

In cmd, just type 

```
echo. 2&gt;.name_you_want
```

or

``` 
. 2&gt;.name_you_want
```

to create a file.

If creating a directory, just type

```
mkdir .folder_name_you_want
```

Use `command line` instead.  
I was also having the same error. The problem was `.`  at the start of file or folder name.  
So I created it by `command line`.


You can do this with command prompt for folder creation:

 `mkdir .folder_name`

I just started to study C, and when doing one example about passing pointer to pointer as a function&#39;s parameter, I found a problem. 

This is my sample code : 

    #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
    #include &lt;string.h&gt;
    #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
    
    int* allocateIntArray(int* ptr, int size){
	    if (ptr != NULL){
		    for (int i = 0; i &lt; size; i++){
			    ptr[i] = i;
		    }
	    }
	    return ptr;
    }
    
    void increasePointer(int** ptr){
	    if (ptr != NULL){
		    *ptr += 1; /* &lt;----------------------------- This is line 16 */
	    }
    }
    
    int main()
    {
    	int* p1 = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int)* 10);
    	allocateIntArray(p1, 10);
    
    	for (int i = 0; i &lt; 10; i++){
    		printf(&quot;%d\n&quot;, p1[i]);
    	}
    	
    	increasePointer(&amp;p1);
    	printf(&quot;%d\n&quot;, *p1);
    	p1--;
    	free(p1);
    	fgets(string, sizeof(string), stdin);
    	return 0;
    }


The problem occurs in line 16, when I modify `*ptr+=1` to `*ptr++`. The expected result should be the whole array and number 1 but when I use `*ptr++` the result is 0. 

Is there any diffirence between `+=1` and `++`? I thought that both of them are the same.



Difference between *ptr += 1 and *ptr++ in C

I created a service SocketService, basically it initializes the socket to let the app listen on the port. This service also interacts with some components.

**// socket.service.ts**

    export class SocketService {
        constructor() {
            // Initializes the socket
        }
        ...
    }

I know the code in SocketService&#39;s constructor() only starts to run when a component use SocketService.

And usually the code in app.ts looks like this:

**// app.ts**

    import {SocketService} from &#39;./socket.service&#39;;
    ...
    class App {
        constructor () {}
    }
    bootstrap(App, [SocketService]);

However, I want this service run when the app starts. So I made a trick, just add `private _socketService: SocketService` in App&#39;s constructor(). So now the codes look like this:

**// app.ts (new)**

    import {SocketService} from &#39;./socket.service&#39;;
    ...
    class App {
        constructor (private _socketService: SocketService) {}
    }
    bootstrap(App, [SocketService]);

Now it works. The problem is sometimes the codes in SocketService&#39;s constructor() run, sometimes not. So how should I do it correctly? Thanks

How to run a service when the app starts in Angular 2

When I try to do this, I get the following error:

[![gitignore error][1]][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/IJxts.png

Obviously, Windows Explorer doesn&#39;t allow me to create this type of file patterns. How can I overcome this problem?

&quot;You must type a file name&quot; error thrown, when I create a .gitignore file on Windows

When I try to do this, I get the following error:
<a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/IJxts.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/IJxts.png" alt="gitignore error"></a>
Obviously, Windows Explorer doesn't allow me to create this type of file patterns. How can I overcome this problem?

I need the Url Rewrite module on my IIS But it does not install and says that I need at least IIS7




Url rewrite does not install on windows 10 IIS 10

I have installed Rails and Ruby on Windows with railsinstaller. The problem is, when I run the rails command, it gives me: &quot;The system cannot find the path specified.&quot;

I am running windows 7 x64 and Ruby 2.20.

I tried uninstalling Rails and installing it again; that does not help. Ruby commands execute, like `ruby -v`, but `rails -v=` dont work. 


Rails - The system cannot find the path specified

I try to run a Python program with Docker via the Windows console (Windows&amp;nbsp;10).

I had made the Windows console be capable of  Docker *Hello, World!*.

But when I run:

     docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v &quot;$PWD&quot;:/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp python:2 python test.py

I get the error:

&gt; docker: Error response from daemon: create $PWD: volume name invalid: &lt;br/&gt;
&gt; &quot;$PWD&quot; includes invalid characters for a local volume name, only
&gt; &quot;[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]&quot; are allowed.
&gt;
&gt; See &#39;docker run --help&#39;.

While running the same code via Docker Quickstart Terminal, it runs well.

I tried to, but I can&#39;t solve it. How can I do it?





Using Docker via Windows console: includes invalid characters $PWD for a local volume name

I want my app to have no title bar but still be closeable, draggable, minimizable, maximizable, and resizable like a regular window. I can do this in OS X since there is a [titleBarStyle] [1] option called  `hidden-inset` that I can use but unfortunately, it&#39;s not available for Windows, which is the platform that I&#39;m developing for. How would I go about doing something like this in Windows?

![Example][2] Above is an example of what I&#39;m talking about. 

  [1]: https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/api/frameless-window.md
  [2]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2175645/10311824/0f1bebae-6c51-11e5-9194-07cecebfbab3.gif

Frameless window with controls in electron (Windows)

I have been trying to resolve .dll dependencies for the executable file with *Dependency Walker*. Currently, I am getting missing .dlls in the following form:

**API-MS-WIN**-XXX

**EXT-MS-WIN**-XXX

For example:

    API-MS-WIN-APPMODEL-IDENTITY-L1-2-0.DLL
    API-MS-WIN-APPMODEL-RUNTIME-INTERNAL-L1-1-0.DLL
    API-MS-WIN-BASE-UTIL-L1-1-0.DLL
    API-MS-WIN-CORE-APIQUERY-L1-1-0.DLL
    EXT-MS-WIN-RTCORE-NTUSER-SYSCOLORS-L1-1-0.DLL

Does anybody have any ideas on how to resolve these?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

**Additional info:** I compiled the executable using *Visual Studio 2013*. The most interesting thing is that I did not receive any errors during compilation. However, I cannot run it due to missing dependencies. I also attached a screenshot of dependency walker:

[![dependency walker][1]][1]

**Update 1:** As an attempt to solve the problem I tried to add the path for the libraries that VS used during compilation to the *$PATH* environment variable without any luck (*Dependency Walker* still shows unresolved dependencies). 


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZFEC1.png

Dependency Walker: missing dlls

**Background info:** 

Due to restrictions in workflow with out existing systems, we need to set up a somewhat unorthodox git process. 

    (patch)    A-B---F
      	         |   |
    (hotfix)     C-D-E
    		         |
    (dev)	   1-2-3-G
On the patch branch, there are some commits. The files here are similar but not identical to the ones on dev (sync scripts switch around the order of settings in many of the files, making them appear changed while they are functionally the same). 

A fix is needed on this branch so a hotfix branch is created and worked on. This branch is then merged back into patch, so far, so good.

This same fix needs to be deployed to the dev branch so it stays relatively in sync with patch, but trying to merge the hotfix branch leads to git trying to merge all the unrelated and &#39;unchanged&#39; files from A and B as well, rather than only C,D and E.

**Question:**

It seems that cherry-pick does what we want in terms of only getting changes from selected commits, but I would really like a way to cherry-pick all commits in a given branch at once, without having to look up the commit ids every time.  

How to git cherrypick all changes introduced in specific branch

We want to automatically merge out from master to another long-lived branch whenever any changes are committed to master (at the moment, this is a manual process and people forget)

I appreciate that it may not always be possible, owing to merge conflicts, but if it is possible, we&#39;d like it to happen automatically.

Is this possible?

Can GitHub automatically merge branches?

Is it possible, to `merge` a branch and automatically `delete` it with a single command? The delete step should only be executed if merging was successful.


Merge and delete branch in one step/command

Github has a [limit](https://help.github.com/articles/conditions-for-large-files/) on push large file. So if you want to push a large file to your repo, you have to use [Git LFS](https://git-lfs.github.com/). 

I know it&#39;s a bad idea to add binary file in git repo. But if I am using [gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/) on my server and there is no limit of file size in a repo, and I don&#39;t care the repo size to be super large on my server. In this condition, what&#39;s the advantage of git lfs?`git clone` or `git checkout` will be faster?

What is the advantage of git lfs?

What does Squashing commits in git mean. How do I squash commits in Github?

I&#39;m new to Git and I requested to be assigned to a newcomer bug in coala-analyzer. I fixed the bug, and now I was asked to squash my commits. How do I do it? 

What does it mean to squash commits in git?

This is mostly a git question. I want to commit my ipython notebooks but gitignore the checkpoints. 

The repo has multiple folders which each have ipython notebooks, therefore just ignoring a single directory does not solve it. I want to keep adding new folders with notebooks inside without worrying about it. 

My hunch is that there must be a way to use some wildcard to *gitignore anything  that is in a folder that is called \*/.ipynb_checkpoints/* but haven&#39;t been able to figure it out. 

### So, how can I git ignore all ipython notebook checkpoints in a repository, wherever they are?

How to git ignore ipython notebook checkpoints anywhere in repository

Working on a Symfony2 project using phpStorm IDE, I have added couple of files to git ignore but one file despite being added to git ignore is always appearing....I have tried multiple times but its always there

.gitignore file:

    /app/config/parameters.yml
    /bin/
    /build/
    /composer.phar
    /vendor/
    /web/bundles/
    /app/bootstrap.php.cache
    /app/cache/*
    !app/cache/.gitkeep
    /app/config/parameters.yml
    /app/logs/*
    !app/logs/.gitkeep
    /app/phpunit.xml
    
    #IDE metadata
    **.idea/**
    
    #Bash files
    run.sh

And it is the .idea folder/files that git just will not ignore: 

    On branch develop
    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)
    
            modified:   .idea/workspace.xml
    
    no changes added to commit (use &quot;git add&quot; and/or &quot;git commit -a&quot;)

Any idea why git will just not ignore the whole directory like i have specyfied in gitignore...?



gitignore does not ignore .idea directory

I have a `.gitignore` file, and it&#39;s ignoring some files. I have updated the `.gitignore` file (removed some filenames and added some filenames). This is not reflected in `git status`. How can I force git to update these changes, so that track files which are not tracked before and vice versa. 

I have tried this [question][1], still all of my files are not tracked (according to my updated `.gitignore`). (In simple, how can I force git to retract files once `.gitignore` is updated or deleted). 


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1139762/4576114

Force git to update .gitignore

Here is my .gitignore

    static/

and I have installed git on the folder named `project` there is a folder named `static` and another folder called `app` and inside the `app` folder, there is another folder `static`. The above `.gitignore` ignore both static folders, That is not what I want.

What I want is to ignore the folder `project/static/` not the folder `project/app/static/` How can I do that? 

Git .gitignore to ignore only folder in root directory

See the image below. My .gitignore file should be ignoring all files in src/dist, but isn&#39;t.

[![enter image description here][1]][1]


  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1qVzG.png

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"You must type a file name" error thrown, when I create a .gitignore file on Windows

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