bertagnolli / gituseful

Useful tips for Git

Git {brackets show git commands, take them out when typing into Git}:

set username and email to ALL of your actions: $ git config --global user.name "Your Name" $ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Creating and editing readme md file: $ cat > README.md to edit text. $cat >> README.md to append text type in stuff, then CTRL+D to save and close alternatively $ touch README.md creates an empty file $cat README.md to read the file $ git add README.md $ git commit README.md -m "This is my commit message"

• Create new repo in Github website. To avoid errors, do not initialize the new repository with README, license, or gitignore files.
• Create repo: Navigate to folder using bash with {cd }
• Set current path as repo using {git init}
• Add the files in your new local repository. This stages them for the first commit. {git add .}
• Commit the files that you've staged in your local repository. {git commit -m "First commit"}
• On the Webpage of Git repository, copy the .git path under code e.g. https://github.com/bertagnolli/repo.git
• In the Command prompt, add the URL for the remote repository where your local repository will be pushed. {git remote add origin }
• Verifies the new remote URL is correct {git remote -v}
• Push the changes in your local repository to GitHub. {git push origin master}

If there's already stuff in repo it might complain saying "Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally". You can force a push with {git push -f origin master} WARNING: THIS WILL FORCE AN OVERWRITE TO ALL EXISTING FILES IN REPO

Workaround Vivado blocking Git push: error 403, xilinx-xhub-users-g1 I have found one workaround to this problem. I had the git credential.helper set to store. I was able to disable that by going into my cloned github repository and typing this command. {git config credential.helper ""} I had to run it in each repo but maybe it is possible to use a --system or --global option to apply the change for all cloned repos.