alternative approach to setup github project with git clone - networking

For some projects stored on github.com, they suggest the following commands for setup,
Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/projectA/projectA.git
Initialize all submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive
My development environment is built on the enterprise network behind the firewall, which does not allow me to use git clone and git submodule. With respect to this kind of scenario, what are the alternate approach to solve that?

You can try and clone a repo at home, use git bundle in order to generate one file (with all the repo history in it) and copy that file somewhere accessible from your enterprise network.
That way, you can clone from that file, and still get the repo full history.

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How to download a Nexus Git-LFS repository

I succesfully pushed a git-lfs repo to a Nexus repo and I can see two git blobs on the remote server. I'm wondering if is there the possibility to clone this repo. I tried different ways:
git clone http://..../reponame/info/lfs
git clone http://..../reponame/
creating a new git-lfs repo and pulling (no error, but no pull is actually done)
There's no reference to this topic in the doc here https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/nexus-repository-administration/formats/git-lfs-repositories
What's the right way to clone/pull this type of repository from Nexus?

Local alternate for Git with RStudio?

My colleague & I are starting on a R project, we both would be working simultaneously & interchangeable components of the model we are building. We can not use Git, as we do not want to put our code online, also it is not allowed by the organization. We also do not have a server of our own, what we have is some common shared drive. Is there a way, we can use a tool like Github/SVN completely locally, where both of us can push our code.
There are two options you can manage your R project with git repo.
Option 1: setup remote git repo in the shared directory
You can setup a remote git repo in the shared directory, and then add the remote repo as a remote for your local git repo, then you can push and push from the remote git repo. Detail steps as below:
First, in an empty folder of the shared directory (assume in \\share\path\gitrepo), execute:
git init --bare
Then add the remote repo as a remote for the local repo you are working.
Assume the local git repo (R project) is opened in R Studio, so you can add remote in R Studio terminal window or through git command line:
git remote add origin \\\\share\\path\\gitrepo
Note:
The count of slash \ in the remote repo url.
And the pull and push button is still disabled after adding remote repo since the local branch (maste) has not tracked the remote branch (origin/master).
Then you can commit changes and push to remote repo first time by:
git push -u origin master
After that (local master is tracking origin/master), the pull and push button will be enabled after refresh the git tool bar. And can pull/push by clicking the buttons afterwards.
Option 2: host the remote git repo to third-party private repo
If it’s ok for you to hosted your git repo to third-party, and do not let everyone has read permission, then you can create a private git repo in the third-party organization.
For bitbucket, it’s free to create private git repos, so you can host your git repo there.

Pushing files to a BitBucket repo doesn't work

I'm new to git and would like to get started using bitbucket.org as a place to create a private repository. This can then be uploaded to the staging server using a service like ftploy.com as I understand.
I am following a tutorial on WPBeginner.com to set up a staging environment for my WordPress local website which I am developing. I set up git on the mac, ran git init on the theme folder and then added all the files using git add .
After that I made a first commit using git commit -m "message here" So far the process appeared to work. No feedback in the terminal though? I then added the line
git remote add origin https://bitbucketusername#bitbucket.org/bitbucketusername/repositoryname.git
Replacing bitbucketusername with mine and repository name with mine. Attempting to push the files to the bitbucket repository resulted in this error however:
error: --all can't be combined with refspecs
usage: git push [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
-v, --verbose be more verbose
-q, --quiet be more quiet
--repo <repository> repository
--all push all refs
--mirror mirror all refs
--delete delete refs
--tags push tags (can't be used with --all or --mirror)
-n, --dry-run dry run
--porcelain machine-readable output
-f, --force force updates
--force-with-lease[=<refname>:<expect>]
require old value of ref to be at this value
--recurse-submodules[=<check>]
control recursive pushing of submodules
--thin use thin pack
--receive-pack <receive-pack>
receive pack program
--exec <receive-pack>
receive pack program
-u, --set-upstream set upstream for git pull/status
--progress force progress reporting
--prune prune locally removed refs
--no-verify bypass pre-push hook
--follow-tags push missing but relevant tags
If you have any thoughts on why this may be the case I would appreciate it
You should provide us the command you used to do your git push, but my guess is you did something like this:
git push --all origin master
As git is telling you, this can't be used that way. Here you are asking git to push everything to origin but then you specify a branch (the <refspec>), so it is confusing.
Either push all like this:
git push --all origin
or just your master branch like this:
git push origin master

How to Upgrade and Deploy WordPress Install as a Git Submodule?

I am using a WordPress directory struture similar to Mark Jaquith's WordPress Skeleton, which has WordPress in a separate directory from the content as a submodule:
/content
/wp
/local-config.php
/wp-config.php
/index.php
I also use git and post-receive hooks to push my code changes up to my live server. It all works great except for when I try to upgrade WordPress and push that up to the live server.
This is how I setup the repo on my local machine and the remote server:
Local Machine
cd /www
git init .
git submodule add git://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git wp
git commit -m "Add Wordpress submodule."
cd wp
git checkout 3.5
After checking out the tag, I get a warning from git about being in a 'detached HEAD' state. Since I don't plan on making any commits to WordPress, I don't think that should be an issue.
cd ..
git commit -am "Checkout Wordpress 3.5"
Remote Server
git init --bare
cat > hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/public git checkout -f
chmod +x hooks/post-receive
git remote add web ssh://user#server/home/private/code/wordpress.git
git push web +master:refs/heads/master
I get this error:
No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.
Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://userserver/home/private/code/wordpress.git'
After some googling, it looks like I can use this command to sync up the master branch up to the server (I have no idea how this works)
git push web +master:refs/heads/master
This doesn't help me though because I don't want to track master, I want to track a release tag, 3.5. Some more googling got me to this command:
git push web +3.5~0:refs/heads/master
To upgrade the submodule, I do this:
cd wp
git fetch && git fetch --tags
git checkout 3.5.1
git push web +3.5.1~0:refs/heads/master
Am I doing this correctly? All the tutorials I see for this just have git push web and they're done. Most don't even cover upgrading the submodule. This does work but I don't feel comfortable using this weird push syntax if I don't have to.
How do I push this detached HEAD state up to the server correctly?
I've also tried this using a branch with git checkout -b mywp 3.5 but when it comes time to upgrade, I don't know how to bring in the new 3.5.1 tag into my mywp branch.
Asked this on WP Answers, but it might be more appropriate here.
On the remote server try:
git submodule update --init --recursive
This will update all your submodules recursively
You can also issue:
git fetch --tags
This will update your local tags fetching updated list from the central remote repo.

How to clone the latest stable branch to a dir via github?

I want to clone the latest stable version of WordPress from Github, via a shell script. It is simple to get the unstable master branch:
git clone git://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git
But how can I get the highest numbered stable release via a script, not manually checking out the code. E.g., using deployment shell script or deployment tool such as Fabric.
Edit: I clarified the text to better indicate the intent that I meant how to do this from a script, not manually.
Clone from git and change to the WordPress directory
git clone git://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git
cd WordPress
Then list out the branches..
git branch -r
This gives something like...
origin/1.5-branch
origin/2.0-branch
...
origin/3.4-branch
origin/HEAD -> origin/master
origin/master
Check out the branch you want...
git checkout 3.4-branch
Branch 3.4-branch set up to track remote branch 3.4-branch from origin.
Switched to a new branch '3.4-branch'
Here's what I actually ended up doing, which is included in a Fabric fabfile I have on Github:
git clone git://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git .
git checkout $(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))
It clones the repo like normal, then does some shell magic to find the latest tagged version of WordPress (Which is where the stable branches live.)
Can you try a git checkout master ?
git branch -r will show you all the remote branches
git checkout --track <local_branch> <remote>/<remote_branch> will setup a local branch that is tracking the remote branch in order to push or get new updates.
you can use this command after git clone
git checkout stable

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