This is more for me than you, however if you need Git on Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) try this. The commands I ran get the pre-packaged PPA Git working on Ubuntu 10.04: sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade sudo aptitude install git
Category Archives: git
Clone a part of an SVN repository in git
I was trying to clone my wordpress plugin from the wordpress svn repo using git-svn. I had no luck for about the past 8 weeks, with this problem: Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/lantrix/tweet/.git/ Using higher level of URL: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/tweet => http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org And it would proceed to hit up the entire wordpress repo. After reading …
Git branch name in your bash prompt
Here is a quick way to show the current git branch when you are in a repository directory. Place this in your .bashrc or .bash_profile: I’ve also customised the PS1 to show user/host/path. You should probably setup git bash completion as well. This can be done by sourcing the bash completion script that is available …