I am a Git GUI user. I don't have an issue using it for my local development. However, now we have a server with a Git repository. Can I remotely push, pull and diff by using the Git GUI client to access that?
Currently, I am SSHing to the Linux server, and use a Git command to do all the Git commands. But I found it very difficulty when it comes to diff. That's why I think is there any solution for me using the Git GUI client access remote repository and do the Git command with a Git client.
I want to be able to mount a remote server in a Git repository.
Current we only have to open the Git repository in our local disk. For example, the C:\www\repo.git file. How about if I want to access 10.10.10.10/home/www/.git and do all the Git commands in the Git client?
Solutions are open for OS X and Windows.
Aside from VNC / remote X (which is an obvious solution and therefore not worth putting in an answer), the only alternative I can find is Visual Studio Code's new remote development support.
You can connect to a server via ssh (from within Visual Studio Code), and then Visual Studio Code's Git features work natively. The interface is fairly basic however - in particular there is no history view and you can't rebase, cherry-pick, etc. from the GUI. It's basically for staging commits.
This extension gives you a proper git graph view. It's pretty good.
If your server has it enabled, you can use XForwarding to display a GUI executed on the remote machine on your local machine.
On the server-side, this means that you need to have the proper tools installed (e.g., git-gui, which means that you also need Tcl/Tk installed, which means that you also need the X infrastructure installed).
You also must enable Xforwarding, by making sure that you have a line like the following in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
To use that on your local Linux machine, you would usually use the -X flag to enable XForwarding for a given connection:
shiro#local:~$ ssh -X gituser#gitserver
gituser#gitserver:~$ cd repo.git
gituser#gitserver:~/repo.git$ git gui
On your local OS X machine, you would instead use -Y:
shiro#applejoice:~$ ssh -Y gituser#gitserver
gituser#gitserver:~$ cd repo.git
gituser#gitserver:~/repo.git$ git gui
You need an Xserver running on your local machine, in order to use XForwarding. While this is not a problem on Linux (or OS X), it gets complicated for Win32. There are tutorials on the web for setting up and using Xservers under Win32 (e.g., Xming).
First, when it comes to diff, you can simply git fetch your repo, and do the diff locally (with git gui), since you have the all history.
Second, if you have ssh access to the server, you don't need to actually open an ssh session.
A simple git command git#gitserver:/path/to/git/project.git is enough (repalce "command" with clone/push/pull/fetch)
That means the fetch is easy.
See Git on the Server - Setting Up the Server for an ssh setup, at least for Linux or Mac.
For Windows, you have alternative ssh server you can consider, like copssh-free-edition.
But now our team is having this issue, and I am the only person in charge for the GIT. That's why I looks for help how to solve this
Then you would need to ssh to the server, git add and git commit there in the repo, then go back to your local workstation, clone or fetch, and do the diff there. –
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A have a rasberry pi(Debian) with a local git server in it. I was able to push normal files to the repo but when I try to push big files it gives me this error.
batch request: bash: git-lfs-authenticate: command not found: exit status 127
Im connection to the rasberry via ssh.
I have installed in both sides git lfs (maybe I did it wrong)
I was able to use git lfs to push into GitHub but not into my local server.
Do I have to create a different type of server of just with the git one should work;
Git and Git LFS are two separate projects. Git includes a server which can be used over the SSH protocol, but Git LFS does not.
There are two possible approaches for using Git LFS over SSH. The older form uses a program called git-lfs-authenticate, which provides authentication for an HTTP server, and then the data is uploaded over HTTP or HTTPS. If you're using Git LFS 3.0 or newer on the client side, it also supports a pure SSH protocol using the git-lfs-transfer program. While Git LFS does not include that program, the reference implementation is written in Rust and can be built with cargo install scutiger-lfs (which can be adjusted to install where you'd like it to be located). That program will need to be installed on the server side in the PATH for it to be available.
I have my site stored on a remote Linux server and I use FTP to download, edit, and re-upload them. I am currently able to use the git bash to connect and upload the files (like a local repository) to bitbucket (my remote repository) but I was wondering if its possible to use one of the graphical git programs to connect to the server and be able to push/pull/manage the changes just to make my life simpler.
If you have a local clone of that Linux server repo, you can use it in combination of any GUI (SourceTree, GitKraken, Tower, ...) installed locally.
That is easier than trying to install a GUI in an environment where you only have headless (ie shell or ftp) access.
Problem: Need to view Git history visually in windows, repository is on remote Linux server (Ubuntu).
Question: What are two easy ways to view the git repository on remote linux server -> in Windows?
I have initially tried mirroring the remote mirror, then viewing it locally - updating when needed, but I get an error when connecting,
git clone --mirror username#serveraddress.com:/home/username/projectfolder
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
Again I'm on Windows using Git Bash, trying to clone a remote repo that's on Linux.
Thanks in advance.
There is no importance where the repo resides.
As the error said,
1- make sure you have the address right
2- make sure you have access to the address
On a CentOS Linux machine, developers have user accounts. They need to be able to use git on the local machine while logged in via ssh, but is there a way to prevent them from cloning their repositories to other machines?
No. If a user can ssh to a machine and they have read permissions on a repository, they can copy the repository (using rsync or scp), and that is all that is necessary to clone a git repository.
Technically, no. You could probably remove git-upload-pack from the system which would make this harder by making git clone stop working, but a simple scp of the entire directory would still be sufficient.
ensure other machines are not writable / accessible, but other than that no.
I'm trying to switch from a windows environment to Linux. I'm primarily PHP developer, but I do know quite a bit about other languages such as CSS, XHTML and Javascript. I need a way of editing my files locally because I work in a git repository and need to commit my saves. On windows I used Aptana and PDT. I'd save my files, upload via Aptana, then commit my work with git.
I need to get a work flow going on my Linux machine now. If you know a better way to do this let me know, however my real question is, is there a plugin that allows gedit to upload files instead of working remotely?
git was designed for distributed development and works well as a mechanism for deploying code to a web server.
On your Linux PC, git clone your git repository url. Edit and commit locally and then git push the changes to the git repository. Then, if you have shell access on the server, use git pull to copy the changes to your server.
To ftp sync, you could set up a branch, ftpbranch, that corresponds to what is on the server, and then each time you want to sync ftpbranch with master:
filestoput=`git diff --name-only master ftpbranch`
Now upload the files:
for f in $filestoput; do curl --ftp-create-dirs -T $f ftp://serverurl
Now update ftpbranch indicating these files have been copied to the server:
git checkout ftpbranch; git merge master; git checkout master
When using linux, you can mount the ftp server to a local folder, then opening and save file from that folder will automatically download and upload the file to ftp server.
If you use ubuntu, just click on Places > Connect To Server.... Choose FTP in Service Type dropdown, fill in the required info, then don't forget to bookmark it.
After this, you can open the file directly in any text editor, not just gedit. I would recoment geany for serious programming editor, because it have a lot of neat feature, almost same with Notepad++ in Windows.
But, since you already using git, why not just use git push to get the update and git pull to upload the update? I have long since uploading manually to my server. Git do all the work for me, synchronizing it between servers. Any particular reason why you still need ftp?