git-pull

I've been using GitHub for Mac for a while and was about to help a colleague install it on Windows. I cannot find any menu or any button to initiate "push" or "pull" as I can on Mac. Only way I see it is to open a shell and execute git pull . But then, what's the point of the UI? What solved my problem? I switched to using SourceTree ( http://www.sourcetreeapp.com ) instead. It solved all my issues :) It's in the top right of the app. For most cases you'll want to hit the sync button which will both push and pull for you. You can also hit F5 to manually trigger it. When you have a new local

I was hoping someone could help, I have a PHP page which uses shell_exec to zip up a directory and run git pull to bring down recent repository changes. $op = shell_exec("cd /home/user/git/$repo/$dir/; zip -r /home/user/archives/$dir.$datestamp.zip $dir; cd /home/user/git/$repo/$dir/; git pull"); The zip works fine. If I change git pull to for example git log or git status - within my shell_exec, this works also, and I can see the log file. Just doesn't seem to like git pull. I saw another similar post to this, but wasn't sure how it was achieved >> Shell_exec with git pull? Mark Longair From

A typical git workflow for me is to clone a remote repository and use git pull to keep it up-to-date. I don't want merge commits when I pull, so i use the --ff-only option. I also make local branches for feature work. I want to preserve the branch history, so when I merge the local branch back to my local clone, I use the --no-ff option. How can I configure git to use those options by default? Currently my .gitconfig looks like this: [merge] ff = false [pull] ff = only However, git pull (which is really git fetch and git merge) seems to be picking up the merge option and therefore creating

Is there a way to pull/fetch code from a specific tag in a repo. Am aware that after clone, i can checkout to the tag but is it possible to specify a tag during a pull? In ClearCase i can rebase or deliver a specific baseline of code, is there a way where i can use git tags similarly to pull/push code upto a specified tag? It will be a bit different with ClearCase, because you can only rebase a baseline produced on the parent Stream (although you can deliver any baseline from any Stream to your Stream). So there are some limitations to the kind of merge you do with ClearCase. With Git, you can

There has certainly been posts around for this, but I actually did a commit because I thought it was the right thing to do. So, I have two repositories, one development and one production. I had to edit something in the production because it was an urgent bugfix, and now I have three files that are newer in the production than in the development. I committed the three files on the production and tried a pull, but it told me there were merge errors. I tried copying and pasting the new files to the development server and retrying the whole thing and it didn't work. Now I'm sure that what I need