GitHub supports Adding a file to a repository. How can the line endings be changed on an existing file in the repo with the GitHub gui?
This is for an existing file in repo without cloning repo and changing it in git.
The GitHub documentation about "Configuring Git to handle line endings" only mentions a local Git setting.
That being said, if you can open your project in a GitHub Web IDE (or a github.dev web-based editor), then you could change the EOL of a file.
However... that would be still cloning the repository (on an Azure VM generated for github.dev/github/dev to use).
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I originally set up git in Rstudio while enrolled in the Data Scientist's Toolbox course at Coursera. Unfortunately, I did this in my phd project. The repository no longer exists on github. I am now attempting to write my thesis in rmarkdown using knitr and bookdown. I would like to use version control, both to learn proper git workflow and to have a structured back up of everything I have done in my thesis. However, I have been unable to change the version control repository in Rstudio.
I am unable to change this in the Tools > Version control > Project setup > Git/SVN menu. The Origin: textbox is unchangable.
I tried creating a new project using the old phd project's working directory. This also cloned the version control settings.
How do I change the origin to accomplish what is described above?
Git, Github and Rstudio are different things. You could use git as local version control tools. You might connect your local repo to Github account which is based on git by push/pull. Rstudio just makes a user interface for git and supplies the function to push the repo into remote server based on git to make version control(not only Github, but also Gitlab).
So for your issue, if you do not want to pay for github for a private repo, all of your code would be public and I don't think it is good before your finally finished your thesis. But version control could be made locally with git only. Just use git shell to control the version.
However, as a student, github could support private repo here for you. Just register and find your student package. Then just remove the url for remote repo after you cd to your workdir in command line, use the following code to find your remote url(mostly you might fing origin):
git remote -v
Then use this to remove them:
git remote rm origin
Now you could use version control locally. If you want to connect this repo to your remote github private repo, use this:
git remote add origin https://github.com/[YourUsername]/[YourRepoName].git
RStudio would find this information about git and support your following operation. Project in RStudio is different with git, although project support git as version control tool. So you need git in command line or shell to solve your problem.
This can be done by opening /your.project/.git/config
and editing the remote origin line(s), e.g. changing from git to https.
Restart Rstudio & you'll be prompted for your github username & password.
This is what worked for me for migrating from github to Azure
Go to the top right Git window in RStudio and click on the gear. Now click Shell (to open the terminal there).
#remove origin
git remote rm origin
#add new origin like Azure for me via HTTPS
git remote add origin https://USER#dev.azure.com/USER/PROJECT/_git/REPONAME
#push your local repro
git push -u origin --all
#in my case put in the PAT password if you needed to generate one.
After testing, I found some clue
Actually Rstudio is not really smart about this setting
It will first search for the git file in the Rproject folder where your Rporject file is located
if it could not, then it goes up to the folder contains your Rproject folder
However, for version control you only need coding files while RProject may contains some big files like .RData some pictures etc.
I don't find a way to manually disrupt this logic flow, the only thing you can do is to delete the current git repository setting files(which is .git folder and 2 other git setting files), then Rstudio may ask you if you want to init a new one.
I create a new repo on Github and follow the instructions.
Then I open Command Prompt and follow Github's instructions.
The picture is what I get...what appears to be file containing my project that is inaccessible.
What am I doing wrong?
This is not an "inaccessible file", but a nested git repo.
It is recorded in the main git repo (published on GitHub) as a gitlink, a special entry in the index, and is displayed as a gray icon.
If you really want its content, you should transform it as a submodule.
As such, that gitlink points to nothing, as there is no way to know the remote url of that repo (only its SHA1 which is what the gitlink records)
I've never used a VCS before and I'm attempting to set one up now.
I'm doing some Game Development with Unity3d. At first I googled how to set up VCS for Unity; and I found this: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BurkayOzdemir/20130303/187697/Using_Unity3D_with_external_VCS_Mercurial__Bitbucket_step_to_step_guide.php
I followed it until it came time to clone the repository from within the hgTortoise workbench. When I hit the clone button after copying and pasting the URL to my repo from the BitBucket.org website I received an error: "Repository Git clone https:://username#bitbucket.org/username/projectName.git not found code: 255" and I do understand what an HTTP 404 error is.
Anyone who has used the internet knows it means the page could not be found.
I created this repo as private; is that why it could not find my repo?
Then I proceeded to follow the instructions at BitBucket's "BitBucket 101" help page. I installed Git, had already created a BitBucket account and repo, and the instructions which followed.
I stopped at the point where the help page said to enter some command line things in to Git Shell. I'm running Windows 8.1 and searches have shown me that particular program doesn't exist on this PC.
Am I doing this correctly? What am I doing wrong? All I need is to set up a VCS.
Git and Mercurial are 2 different distributed version control packages. They both use a command line interface. TortoiseHG (the package referred to in the step-by-step you linked to) is a GUI extension that's only used for Mercurial. (HG is the chemical symbol for Mercury, get it?!)
Bitbucket is an online repository that can host either Git or Mercurial repositories.
It looks like you created your repository on Bitbucket as a Git repo and not a Mercurial repo. Just delete the repo on Bitbucket (make sure you have a good copy of your source code) and recreate it as a Mercurial repo. Then work with TortoiseHG as instructed in the step-by-step.
The fact that it's a private repo doesn't matter. That just means it will only be visible to you (vs. everyone) and will require a password to push and pull changes via https or ssh.
Well, first of all, it seems that the tutorial that you seem to be using is based on using Mercurial instead of Git.
If you're comfortable with diving into the command line, you can download TortoiseHG, which is a Windows shell extension: http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/
However, there's nothing wrong with using SourceTree as well, which is a GUI-based interface for dealing with both Git and Mercurial repositories: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
FYI, if you downloaded Git for Windows, it should've provided you with a terminal called Git Bash that you can use for Git commands.
I am completely new to Git.
I am working on an eclipse project that uses GitLab. I would like to replace the current project I am using with one of the branches on the GitLab server.
I downloaded the repository as .git folder. Now I am wonder how I can completely change my current project with that .git project. Or if there any other way to do it with commands it would be fine as well.
You should checkout another branch using Git (either on command line or using some Git plugin for Eclipse), not by downloading anything.
git checkout another_branch_name
I have GAE project in my Eclipse and I want to add it to my local git repo, how can I do that?
Since creating a Git repo within a GAE project is possible through command line, it is possible through Egit:
Follow that Egit tutorial:
For a new repo:
Right click your project, select Team -> Share -> Git.
Select the proposed line and press "Create repository". Press finish
Create the file ".gitignore" in your project with the following content.
All files / directories which apply to the pattern described in this file will be ignored
But you can also add it to an existing local repo by:
making a special branch for your project in your local repo (with just the .gitignore file in it)
clone it where your current project is
add all your current project files in it
import said Git repo into your workspace: See 4.2 Clone existing project.
informatik01 adds in the comment a link to a short article describing how to do it using the command line:
Adding Eclipse Project to Git
cd ~/workspace/my-project
git init .