When I am creating a repository in Git it says "This repository's default branch is empty!"
Earlier I had a master branch and a source button with SSH, HTTP.
So how can I create this default branch, without using the terminal?
When you create a new, empty, git repository you will have an empty default branch until your first commit.
When using EGit, you can create a new git repository from the Git Repositories view. See Creating a Repository. When that's done, I create my workspace projects, uncheck "default location", and specify a directory within my newly created Git repo. There's more of a discussion on creating git repos in relation to a workspace in Considerations for Git Repos.
Thx all but i resolved my issue.
In repository Admin panel just need to check GitHub Pages, it creates "gh-pages" branch and shows a source button with SSH, HTTP.
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I am trying to do a "pull" from my git repository on bitbucket, using Egit (Eclipse). I can do "push" without any problems, but when I try to pull I get the error message:
The current branch is not configured for pull No value for key
branch.master.merge found in configuration
I have tried creating new branches from both eclipse and bitbucket, but the can't seem to "communicate". When I create a new branch in eclipse, it's automatically a local ( which it shouldn't be)
How can I set up my eclipse and bitbucket for "pulls" (not local)?
(I am a bit confused as I thought I was connected to the repository, since push works)
Any help will be greatly appreciated
You need to specify an upstream branch.
The push works because of the default push policy "simple".
With Egit:
Access "Configure Branch":
Go to "Git Repositories" view,
Expand the branches, local
Then:
Right-click your checked-out local branch that can't pull
Select "Configure Branch...":
For "Upstream Branch:", put "refs/heads/yourBranch"
For "Remote:", put "origin"
Leave "Rebase" unchecked
Hit OK
I am working through a programming book and I want to branch off of master for each chapter, then merge back to master once the chapter is completed, but have the chapter specific branch show up in my github permanently. What is the best way to do this through the eclipse gui? I have already created the branch in eclipse, but I can't get it to create the duplicate project branch in github.
Github repository
-master
-chapter1
-chapter2
If your "Team => Push to Upstream" is grayed, you need to specify the upstream address of your local Git repo in your Eclipse Egit configuration: see "Eclipse/Egit, Push to Remote menu choice is grayed out".
Check also your SSH2 config in the same EGit.
Finally, click on "Add all branches spec" in order to push all your local branches to the upstream repo:
Did you push the branch?
git push origin chapter1
git push origin chapter2
...etc...
(Note: If you're using a graphical interface for git in eclipse you might consider adding that information to the question.)
Is there a way to fork from a specific branch on GitHub? … For example, moodle has many branches (1.9, 2.0 … and so on). Can a clone be performed of just branch 1.9 and not the master branch always? Is it possible to clone a specific branch onto my PC?
I don’t know a native way yet, but you can do it following this recipe:
Fork the repository in question (called ‘upstream’) on the GitHub website to your workspace there.
Run the GitHub desktop application and clone the repository onto your PC.
Use the GitHub desktop application to open a shell in the repository. (The git commands are not available from the default PowerShell unless you configure that manually.)
Set the source repository as upstream:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/{user}/{source-repo}.git
Fetch the full upstream repository. (Right now, you only have a copy of its master branch.)
git fetch upstream
Make your file system copy the branch you want and give it any name:
git checkout upstream/{branch-in-question}
git checkout -b temporary
Publish your repo using the GitHub desktop application.
On the GitHub website, open your repository and click ‘settings’.
Change the “Default branch” to ‘temporary’. (Just change the drop-down menu, you don’t need to click the “Rename” button.)
Go back to your repository, go to the ‘branches’ tab, now you can delete the “master” branch.
Delete the master branch on your shell and make a new master branch:
git branch -d master
git branch master
git checkout master
git -d temporary
Once more, publish your repo using the GitHub desktop application.
On the GitHub website, open your repository and click ‘settings’.
Change the “Default branch” back to the (new) ‘master’ branch.
Go back to your repository, go to the ‘branches’ tab, now you can delete the “temporary” branch.
This should be what you were looking for. Perhaps GitHub will provide a more convenient way to do this in future (e.g., clicking “Fork” from a project’s branch results in exactly this behaviour).
Cloning means that you create a copy of the whole repository in your account including all branches and tags. However you are free to switch and track branches however you like.
No command line needed. Just create a new branch in your forked repository in GitHub. GitHub will ask you if you want to clone/mirror this new branch from the upstream repository. You can give any name to the new branch.
Yes, you can clone the single branch. For example, you have a branch named release1.0. If you would like to clone this branch into your pc then use the following line of code:
$ git clone git#bitbucket.org:git_username/git_repository_example -b release1.0 --single-branch
For those who don't like working with command-line. Here is a simple guide using the desktop client for GitHub:
Click the fork button of the repo on GitHub.com:
Make sure you have the desktop client installed
Click this button:
Clone the repo
In the desktop client, select the desired branch
Select the branch you'd like to work on and you're done
I'm posting here the method I've used.
Like the OP I wanted to only copy/fork one branch. But couldn't find an easy way.
in your repo create a new branch. It doesn't need to have the same name as the branch you want to fork
once created, verify that it is the selected branch, and click "Compare"
reverse the order of comparison (I have a userscript for that, see my profile if it's something you want to test).
the "base" repository must be yours, with the branch you've created
the "head" repository is the original, and the branch is the branch you want to fork
hit "create pull request" and continue until the PR is applied
That's it. You have the branch forked.
I'm using bitbucket but I'm sure this would work for GitHub as well.
Create a new repository
Checkout the branch using GitExtensions
Click Push to open the Push dialog
Set the destination URL to the new repository
Set the destination branch to "master"
Push
Your new repository will have the full history of the one branch only (not all branches like forking will have).
A fast, alternative approach is to create your own new repo.
Go to https://github.com/new and make a new repo. Do not initialize with README.
Scroll down to get your git remote
Then:
git remote rm origin
git config master.remote origin
git config master.merge refs/heads/master
// Run code from above image
git push --set-upstream origin yourbranchname
You will have a new repo with the original repo's code and a branch that can be made into a pull request.
SOLUTION:
For remote repository on GitHub and local repository
After fork all branches to your GitHub repository, you can delete Redundant branches in your GitHub repository.
And then you can only clone the branches you need to local.
Step One
Step Two
Only For local repository
git clone -b <branch name> --single-branch <repository>
If you want to further save your disk space, you can clone remote repository without history:
git clone -b <branch name> --depth 1 <repository>
notice: --depth implies --single-branch unless --no-single-branch is given.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone
Switch to the branch you need in source repo
Click "Fork". You'll get forked master and the branch you're in.
I don't know how it works with more branches, but for my needs worked pretty well.
I'm new to git and am wrapping my head around how I'm supposed to be using git and egit. From the egit tutorial, I have setup a respository on GitHub, pushed my Eclipse projects to the remote GitHub repository from my local workspace, I can push changes to GitHub, switch branches, see the updates on GitHub, etc. This all makes sense.
Looking at the Git Repository explorer, I have a listing of "Local" branches and have no "Remote Tracking" branches and I have no "Remotes" listed. When I create a branch from a local branch, the egit dialog indicates "You are creating a branch based on a local branch" and suggests that I should be making a branch from a remote tracking branch.
So my question is, am I correctly using egit?
Should I just continue pushing changes to the remote GitHub repository? If so, what happens once I share the project and other developers clone the repository and start making changes to the remote repository?
Or should I now ditch the local repository and setup a new remote repository by cloning the existing GitHub repository that I initially created from my workspace?
Or do I create a new Push and Fetch "Remote" for my existing git repository?
Or something else?
Confused.
Since you created the repo on your local system and then pushed it to github without creating a remote you don't have a remote at hand. A remote is simply a short alias for the remote repository's URL. To fix this create a remote and a push and fetch configuration from the repositories view. In order to populate remote tracking branches in your local repo you need to run fetch once. As soon as this is done you can use "Push to upstream" instead of the more complex Team > Push... dialog which allows to define all parameters on the fly. When using native git command line you'll find the same concepts implemented there:
with
"$ git push [url] [refspec]" (e.g. "$ git push https://github/user/myrepo.git master:master")
you pass all parameters explicitly, this is similar to Team > Push... in EGit
with
"$ git push [remote]" (e.g. "$ git push origin")
you push to the repository defined by the configuration parameters of the given remote (check .git/config to see these parameters or open repository configuration from egit preference in Eclipse), this is similar to Team > Push to upstream in EGit. Usually the refspec used in this way is implicitly configured when creating a local branch based on a remote tracking branch. It's also possible to add this configuration later but since this is more
tedious manual configuration the other way is more handy.
If you clone a remote repository the repository you cloned from is stored as remote "origin" in your clone. This way you can skip configuring the remote manually. This is only needed if the repository is born when you create it from scratch.
The "Branching" section of the Egit User Guide can help:
There is no obligation to create a local branch which would be named like a remote tracking branch (see "Having a hard time understanding git-fetch" to have a good understanding of "remote tracing branches).
You can create as many local branches (i.e. branches that you won't necessary push anywhere) as you want/need.
But if you don"t see any remote branch, maybe you didn't fetch that GitHub repo in the first place: see Fetching.
I'm an Eclipse user, but I'm a newbie to Mercurial and to Bitbucket. I think I understand the command-line hg commands. I can create repositories, clone, push, pull, update, that stuff.
If I have a project in Eclipse, I can create a local repository for it. I can't figure out how to clone this repository up to Bitbucket.
If I have a project in Eclipse, I can create a remote repository on Bitbucket. Then I don't have a local repository, so I can't use any of the Team... commands, and can't do anything.
If I have a repository on Bitbucket, I can't get to it, because I don't have a local repository, so again I can't do anything.
If I create separate repositories locally and on Bitbucket, then I have two different repositories, and I don't know enough Mercurial to merge(?) different repositories.
There must be some blindingly obvious to get a project off the ground, but I'm blind to it. I can do this just fine from the command line, but MercurialEclipse is defeating me. No luck so far with Google and assorted documentation...
Help?
Doing it using Eclise "Team" UI:
Create a project in Eclipse and "share" it using Mercurial repository type. That will create local repository (by default in the same location where your project is).
Create project repository on BitBucket.
Use "Team">"Push" to push local changes to your remote BitBucket repo. First time it will ask you to enter the repository URL, user name and password. All this information is available on your Bitbucket web UI.
Don't forget that you have to do 2 stage commits after that. Commit in Eclipse UI will commit it in your local repository. In your team perspective's Synchronize view you will see additional "Outgoing" and "Incoming" entries. Using right-click menu on them you will be able to push/pull your changes to/from your BitBucket repo.
Remote repo information can be managed in special "Mercurial Repositories" view.
More info can be found in the tutorials at http://ekkescorner.wordpress.com/blog-series/git-mercurial/
Following the directions provided by bitbucket should be enough.
You can either create a repository on bitbucket and clone it on your desktop:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/youraccount/yourproject
...
hg pull -u # to pull changes and update
hg push # to push changes to this repo
Or use a local repository and push these changes to a newly created repository on bitbucket:
cd /path/to/existing/hg/repo/
hg add [...]
hg commit
hg push https://bitbucket.org/youraccount/yourproject
Basically, two repositories are "bound" by:
a common changeset in their history
the [paths] configuration in /path/to/existing/hg/repo/.hg/hgrc, that lists remote repositories you can read/push to.