Am new to GiKraken.
I have created a local repo and remote (origin) repo.
I have added some files to the local repo (folder on my computer).
But, Gitkraken cannot find them automatically and then cannot commit.
How to add them in GiKraken manually ?
(could not find the way to do it, even "Stage" is not shown inthe community version).
A click on 1 shows your unstaged changes in area 2. The green symbol below 2 indicates a file that was added and is not yet added to your git repository. If you click on it, it will move to the Staged files area and be ready to be commited.
I'm not sure I understand your question correctly. You can not create files in GitKraken, it just manages your existing files in your repository.
If you create or copy files in your repositorys' folder (via file manager or editor or by whatever means), GitKraken will know and show the files as new files in th "Unstaged Files" section, allowing to add and commit them to your repository.
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where can I find .git folder to delete a repo on my system. I opened my local disk as a repository and I have about 5k changes to make.The thing is if I check my git account my local disk is not showing as a repo so i really dont know what is going on. Any solution will be welcomed.
Among the "5k changes", select a file and open it in your file browser. Enable hidden files/folders. Start moving up the hierarchy of that path, i.e., keeping going up in the parent directory of the file.
You'll find the .git folder somewhere. Check its creation date. If it's recent, delete it. Be careful not to delete any commits you had made in some project.
I have a Unity project that I messed up badly, so I downloaded the zip file of the latest repository I pushed to GitHub, deleted the local files, and dumped the content of that zip in place of the old directory. I thought this would be a seamless transition, but now GitHub Desktop is not recognizing these files as a git repository. I don't know why because there are github-specific files in there. I have made significant changes that I need to save. How do I reconnect this repository? Do I want to hit "Clone Again" or will that overwrite what I have locally with what is in the cloud? Again, I want to push what I have locally to the cloud.
For anybody else having this problem, here is what I did:
Save your local repository into a zip file someplace accessible,
like your desktop.
Completely gut your local directory--delete all
contents within the root folder. GitHub Desktop demands a clear folder to clone into.
In GitHub Desktop, where it says it
can't find your repository anymore, click the button that says
"Clone Again". This will download your cloud repository into your
local directory--the opposite of what we wanted, but at least what
comes next will work.
Delete all the cloned files that are NOT files associated with GitHub. This will prevent extraneous files from being left over when you overwrite your project files.
Copy all the non-GitHub-related files from the zip into the renewed directory.
This will restore the link between directories. Now, IT IS POSSIBLE that I deleted an essential GitHub file and did not notice (since there are at least 4 of them), and simply restoring THAT file from the cloud would fix everything. If you become disconnected like I was, I recommend trying that first in case it works and saves you time. Those are the files that get overwritten by GitHub when local files are updated.
I want simply add a new File or Folder to an existing Repo in my Eclipse.
I tried the following (add index on the file and folder), but nothing happens.
Can someone help me.
In Git, a new file must first be added to the index (also called staging area) and then committed before the file becomes part of the history:
Add files:
Right-click and choose Team > Add to Index or
in the Git Staging view move the file from Unstaged Changes down to Staged Changes
Commit files: In the Git Staging view enter a Commit Message and click Commit
Result: In the History view a new commit containing the files is shown.
Please note in Git (in contrast to e.g. SVN) only files, but not empty folders can be committed.
Check the properties on that folder to get its path.
Switch to command line, and do a git status (if you have Git installed), to check if the folder and its content is actually in a Git repo (or if only "src" is):
Chec at least if you see a .git folder above the folder you want to add to the index, you should be able to do so from Eclipse.
But if not, that would explain why adding it does nothing.
I am new to git. I downloaded the desktop version (for Windows). I dragged the folder containing my project into the big window, "Get started by adding a repository." All the files showed up in the left window. Then I clicked on "Publish Repository". It then shows 143 files have changed, with 0 unsynced.
But when I go to my account on the git website, the repository is empty. The only files in it are .gitattributes and .gitignore. The whole idea here is that I want to share this project with other people.
Help out a git newbie and explain how I get the entire solution into git?
Thanks!
As you already have the remote repository at GitHub, you should use the clone option first to clone your repository locally.
This will create a folder (your repository clone) on the default location containing those two files.
Then you can copy your project files to this folder and try to sync again.
I have an existing repo which has been setup correctly and working fine. I deleted an entire project folder from the repo, committed the change, then added another version of the same folder which was not under VC. Now when I try to add or commit files in the new folder, Mercurial does not seem to recognize any of the new files.
Using the TortoiseHg Windows Explorer "commit" extension, when I try to the commit the folder(or any of the files within), no files show up in the dialogue. If I right click and commit a file within the folder, a pop up comes up that says "No files found for this operation". I am no Hg expert, although I have been using it for few months without a hitch, but I am pretty stuck on this one. Any ideas?
UPDATE: I have added a screenshot below showing what happens when I try to add the new folder. None of the files in the folder seem to be recognized.
The project I had copied had been a part of another repo, so it contained hg reference files. I deleted these, and everything added/committed perfectly.
If you want to commit a new file to a repository, you must first add it.
On the command line this can be done in various ways :
hg add which can add a file or a repository and every files it contains.
hg addremove which adds all new files and remove deleted ones.
hg commit -A or hg commit --addremove which are the same thing and a shortcut of hg add remove; hg commit.
I don't remember exactly where the command is in TortoiseHG, but I think if you right-click on the folder in the explorer, the option should be present.
I think I also remember an addremove option somewhere in the commit window, but I may be mistaken.
[UPDATE]
Based on the answer you provided yourself, here is the explanation of why simply adding the files weren't working :
Since the new directory contained repository related information (a .hg directory), Mercurial was treating it as a Subrepository. Subrepositories are repository contained in another, this can, for example, be used to reference a specific version of a library.
Once you delete the .hg directory in your new location, Mercurial didn's saw this as a Subrepo anymore and you were able to add the files normally.