Questions tagged [github-desktop]
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Why is GitHub Desktop not letting me interact with it?
It's been a while since I've used my GitHub Desktop, on Windows 10, but when I decided to try and open it again I ran into a weird issue: GitHub Desktop wouldn't let me click on anything except the ...
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git: 'remote-https' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Error when cloning a repository
I experience this error whenever I try to clone a repository. The error comes regardless if the repository is private or public. As a result, I cannot clone any repository. The same error comes if I ...
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Fastest way to clone a github repo to computer without having to delete older versions, just update the changed files?
I'm using Github desktop but whenever I try to sync to get the updated files it tells me syncing would overwrite my uncommited changes (probably the config file) and either to commit or discard them. ...
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Did I just delete 2 Months of Work?
I was about to back up my local work to github today (1,100 commits). Not sure what I did but all of a sudden it says no commits, and all my Xcode files are now red. It seems to have synced my local ...
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Can't sign into Github Desktop on arch linux after power outage -- "Cannot create an item in a locked collection"
So I recently had a power outage, and it affected the whole neighborhood, but what made it worse was it (almost, thankfully) corrupted my external hard drive somehow (that was fixed, again, thankfully)...
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"This branch is 6 commits ahead of original:master" but 0 changed files
I am trying to resolve an issue with old commits persisting through new pull requests from my personal forked repo to the original repo. I am using the GitHub website, not command line.
When I look ...
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How to get the "github" CLI to open the new GitHub Desktop beta?
Since updating GitHub Desktop to the new beta version, my github CLI command has gone. How do I get it back? Is there some kind of alias I can add to my shell config?
(The CLI simply opened the CWD ...
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Github for Windows won't start
The error log generated after the installation when i try to open the application reads :
PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 6.1.7601.65536 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 4....
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Add a repo to GitHub Desktop from command line
Is it possible to add a new repo to GitHub Desktop's repo list from a command line API of some sort?
Searching has largely led to results about adding a repo to GitHub via command line, which is not ...
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Git overwrote local with remote when reverting a push
Using github desktop I committed and tried to push local code to master. I hadn't been updating the remote repo much so my local version had about 2 months worth of work. I made the commit and tried ...
