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Msysgit is a windows-compatible build of the git revision control system.
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search over all drives in git bash crashes - "failed to read file names from file system at or below '/': No such file or directory"
I am using the git-bash for windows (what is internal msys2).
I needed to search over all of my harddrives.
When I try to run find / -type d (and my search patterns), the search runs over the system ...
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Unable to git with plink
I need to configure git with putty on a windows-7 machine behind a corporate proxy. I had no problem to configure putty/pageant with a specific session for gitlab.com.
I have problems trying to ...
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using ssh from Git for Windows in a stand-alone fashion
I am having Git for Windows (this comes with MinGw64 binaries and an msys-dll set) and have extracted (thanks to depends.exe) only the program SSH.exe with the needed DLL files for using those ...
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As a ssh client, putty works but git bash doesn't work
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Host OS: Win 10 x64(x.x.x.141)
Hyper-v OS: CentOS 7 x64(ssh server x.x.x.142)
Putty version:0.67
Git bash version(git for windows): v2.11.0.windows.1
I try to use Git bash as a SSH ...
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In git-bash vi mode, insert mode, why is 'delete' mapped to 'esc' '3' instead of 'delete'?
In git-bash vi mode, if you're not already in insert mode, hit i.
Now when you try to use delete you exit into command mode and the prompt shows (arg: 3)
So it seems that delete is mapped to esc 3
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Git smudge and clean filters
I have some files in a git repository which are unicode tab-separated value files. I know that these files are either UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoded at generation-time.
For my Windows workstation, where I ...
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spawn new instance of msysgit in the same working directory
I am trying to spawn a new instance of msysgit - the git bash shell for windows. I've noticed that the following command is executed when you start from the Start menu:
"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh....
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Is the option "Use Git and optional Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt" dangerous?
When installing Git, it offers the option to add all of its msys *nix tools into your PATH, however it warns:
Warning: This will override Windows tools like "find" and "sort". Only use this option ...
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Cmder error when using msysgit tools
Using cmder, every time I try to run one of the msysgit tools (e.g. ls) I get the following error:
0 [main] ls 7796 stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
The same tools work fine ...
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Can't use python in interactive mode on new msys-git terminal?
I recently upgraded my laptop, which ran a 32-bit Win7, and my new laptop runs a 64-bit Win7 installation.
I am installing git 2.5.1 from git-scm.com, and the latest python versions (both 3.4.3 and 2....
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Windows 8.1 requires elevated rights for common tasks
I've moved from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 (fresh install, different machines) and I'm having some issues with user permissions on my Windows 8.1 machine.
It seems to require Administrator rights for ...
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GPG Agent under Windows as SSH Agent for git bash
I'm trying to set up gpg-agent as the common authentication agent under Windows. It works fine for both Putty and regular gpg use, but now I'd like to use it as ssh-agent in git bash as well.
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bash completion in msysgit by single or double tab
Single tab used to make bash complete current line, and double tab shown all possible variants.
For example, if I have files (or git branches, or whatever is suitable in current context) "abc", "abd" ...
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Escaping asterisk * in Bash on Windows
The following command works in GNU Bash on FreeBSD but not in Git Bash on Windows:
curl -X PUT -d '"*"'
The intended result is to send a PUT request to https:...
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Put all Msysgit's right-click context menu options in a sub-menu in Windows Exporer?
edit: opened an issue on Git-Cheetah's GitHub page.
Is it possible to put all Msysgit's right-click menu options in a sub-menu?
All of the options makes my menu enormous
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