Obtains a local copy of a remote Git repository.
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Ansible not pulling git repo
I'm trying to pull github repo using ansible, but it's giving me following error.
stderr: fatal: destination path '/var/www/server-ip' already exists and is not an empty directory.
msg: fatal: destination path '/var/www/server-ip' already exists and…

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How to make a git clone --bare into a git clone --mirror
I accidentally created a copy of a repo with git clone --bare and now I can't update from the original repo. This GitHub article advises --mirror for updates:
If you want to mirror a repository in another location, including
getting updates from…

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Setting up an already cloned git workspace as local repository
I have a clone from a remote repository, and i do my work on this clone and does git commit and git push to remote repo.
I work using a desktop PC and some times using a laptop. From laptop now I do remote desktop to my desktop PC and work. But if…

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Using git on a single server, i.e. no truly remote origin
This seems so dumb, but I can't figure it out. Tons of instructions out there for cloning or adding a remote server, or pushing to a cloned repository. But I'm trying to figure out how to set up a git repository in a shared directory on a server,…

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Clone github repo with ':username/:reponame' folder structure automatically
It may seems too hacky and maybe require some kind of git plugin.
What i'm trying to do is to clone a github page to :githubsername/:repoName
for example
git clone 'git@github.com:bekicot/assignment_rss.git
would result to clone the repo to…

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Getting error while checkout in git
I am using the below command in terminal.
$ git checkout https://coding@bitbucket.org/coding/coding.git
but getting the below error
error: pathspec 'https:/coding@bitbucket.org/coding/coding.git' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Please…

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How do I change the clone URL for my GIT repositories?
I have moved my Git repository from one IP to a different IP. And now I am facing a problem with changing it's clone url.
Old URL: 1] http://105.15.96.261/something/some_repo.git
Now I have moved to a new IP & I want the clone url to be: 2]…

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Can I Go Back to a Previous Git Clone
I am using TortoiseGit (i.e. right-click on the Windows Explorer folder followed by selecting Git Clone....).
If I do two Git Clones to different folders, can I switch back to the first and use it (i.e. develop and check in from it)? Both clones…

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Cloning git subtree without downloading whole repo
I need to clone native_client_sdk subdir from Chromium repository, because repository is huge and I don't have resources to download it. The answer Is there any way to clone a git repository's sub-directory only? doesn't help, because git is still…

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Difference between remote git repository and current cloned copy
I am attempting to create a bash script that clones a repository off of a Github account and places it on an NFS volume on a Raspberry Pi cluster. It will be run via cron job at midnight daily. Of course, I don't want to pull from this repo more…

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Issue git clonning using ssh but works using https
When i try cloning public repository hosted on bitbucket using SSH it fails, for instance when i try cloning the following git repository
git clone git@bitbucket.org:tildeslash/monit.git
It gives me this error
Cloning into 'monit'...
Permission…

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How can I see the names of "local" git branches of a repo from the repo server
How can I see the names of "local" git branches of a cloned repo from the repo server? I have 8-10 developers and I want to insure they are using branch naming standards on their local machines.. Is that possible?

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How to clone git repo that have other repo in it?
I'm trying to clone https://github.com/ornicar/lila to my PC.
That project have a link to other project in https://github.com/ornicar/lila/tree/master/modules/chess
and when I simply do git clone git@github.com:ornicar/lila.git it doesn't clone…

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How to import a project from repository for readthedocs?
I have a project on a github repository, and I'm trying to build a documentation for it, based on its markdown files. I decided to use readthedocs for it, however, I'm having trouble importing it correctly. While trying to build the docs, it returns…

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Git pull will not update local files
I seem to have an issue with using git pull on a local branch. Essentially I have cloned a branch from my remote BitBucket repository, which is cloned to my USER_HOME\BRANCH directory on my machine.
I want to keep this branch up to date with the…

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