Using command line, I can use
git rm --cached $FILE_PATH
In intellij 2017, I can add a file to the git index with the context menu, but it does not have the option to remove but keep a file in the index.
Typing the command is painful as a lot of java files are buried in nested directories.
There are no plans to add such a feature, see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-107359
Moreover, IntelliJ cannot commit such a change, cause it calls git commit --only - see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-138847
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When I try to add a submodule via
git submodule add git#domian:repo.git contact
I get the following message:
The following path is ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
contact
Use -f if you really want to add it.
Here is my .gitignore:
# Ignore everything
*
# But not these files:
!*.py
!*.md
!*.gitignore
!.gitmodules
!contact/
It is resolved by using the suggested -f option, but I am curious why the !contact/ entry in .gitignore does not alleviate the problem.
A submodule is composed of a gitlink (a special entry 160000 in the Git repository index), and a remote URL+path in the .gitmodules.
So excluding !contact/ would still ignore the gitlink "contact" (which is not a folder contact/, but a special "file")
This would work better, and allow the git submodule add to proceed:
!contact
And if any other cause would still block the git submodule add, the next Git 2.26 (Q1 2020) will provide a more helpful error message.
I don't hit that error in your particular case (I have git version 2.21.0.windows.1).
I do hit that error when trying to add a submodule outside the parent repository, though (which apparently isn't supported):
$ git submodule add https://github.com/user/repo ../repo
The following path is ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
../repo
Use -f if you really want to add it.
Best guess is it's a bug...so adding !contact/ to your .gitignore doesn't fix it because it's not actually the .gitignore causing the problem.
What git version do you have? You can download the source code for your particular version, search for the error message (e.g. here it is in v2.21), and trace through the code to figure out what actually goes wrong.
Using Intellij IDE (I have version 2017.3.5) is there a way to delete multiple local git branches at once
You can delete multiple branches in IntelliJ IDEA directly.
Go to tab Git / Log. There open the Tree view on the left side. Check this picture:
Source: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-131571
// Update Feb 2021:
As mojmir.novak pointed out here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65954247/1546042 you can do this now in IntelliJ. To remove only merged branches, see answer below:
// Older update:
To clean-up (old) feature branches that have been merged to master you can use the terminal to clean it up.
To delete all local branches that are already merged into the currently checked out branch:
git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|master|dev)" | xargs git branch -d
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/6127884/1546042 for more details.
Cleaning up using run config"
In order to clean up multiple branches at once, using intelliJ. You need to install the Bash Support plugin and use it to create a run config that executes a script with the above command.
Install BashSupport plugin
Create script with the command. (e.g. ~/scripts/clean-branches.sh)
Create a new Bash run config.
Link to the script created in step #2.
Provide working directory of the repo you want to clean.
Run it to clean the branches.
There is a Plugin available for this:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10059-git-branch-cleaner/
To use it once it's installed, in the main menu go to:
VCS > Git > Delete Old Branches
Have been through the pain of cleaning up the unused branches, and found this plugin.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10059-git-branch-cleaner/
But I was not able to see the VCS > Git menu on my Mac - IntelliJ
But was successful in finding a similar option under git > context-menu - Delete old branches...
I am not sure if there is a default option or this is because of the above-mentioned plugin.
Sharing to help others who don't have VCS > Git menu like in my case
It's easy to delete multiple branch on Git Extensions.
http://gitextensions.github.io/
I'm new to JavaFX 8 and the IntelliJ IDE. I have a JavaFX8 project that works but not as I would like. I'd like to try another approach but the substantial changes may not work. I don't want to loose code I have working.
To save code I have working, I've been creating a new project and then locally copying all the folders(.idea, out, src) and files except .iml, of the working project into the appropriate folders in the new project with the newly generated .iml.
This always seems to work but is it proper procedure?
I'm not on a team of developers and have yet to learn Git/GitHub.
Please advise. Thanks.
Maybe you should learn how to use a Version Control System like Git, then you can create a project repository and have different branches for things you want to try out. Keeping the working code in your master branch will prevent you loosing your working code. Also, when using a vcs you can always revert to versions of your code that have been working. The IntelliJ Idea IDE has perfect support for working with all different types of version control systems. If you don't want to learn any forms of vcs then there is no other way to "backup" your working code.
Is it proper procedure? It's probably not how most people would go about achieving what you want to achieve but it's certainly workable. If you wanted to stick with that for simplicity now, I'd copy the whole directory structure, delete the .idea and .iml files, and then create a new project in IntelliJ on that clean copy: IntelliJ will automatically set up folder structure based on the existing source without you having to go through any additional manual setup.
If you're willing to experiment with the git route, to achieve the basics of what you want to achieve is not very complicated and I've written a small quick-start below. IntelliJ offers very good support for Git, and once your repository is created you can do everything you need from the IDE. I'm going to assume you're working on Windows, although the steps shouldn't be too far removed on other platforms.
Install Git
You can download and install Git from https://git-scm.com/download/win, which will install a command shell called Git Bash.
One-off setup for your project
Open up git bash and go into the directory containing your source. Rather than seeing separate drives as Windows does, Git Bash assumes there is a logical 'root' directory under which all your files are accessible. Your C: drive will be /c. To move around you can use cd to change directory (using / instead of ) and ls to list files instead of using dir.
Assuming your source code is in C:\projects\myproject:
cd /c/projects/myproject
git init
The second line above creates a git repository in that directory. This doesn't affect your code, it just creates a folder called .git that contains all of the book-keeping information.
You don't want to have every file under version control - in particular you don't want your build outputs. You need to set up a file in your project directory called .gitignore which tells git which files and directories should be ignored. As a starting point you can copy https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Java.gitignore and rename the file to .gitignore
Basic Commands and committing your initial version
There are a small number of basic commands:
git status
Running git status will tell you which files have been modified, which are not under version control, and which files have been added to the staging area to be committed next time.
git add path/to/file
This adds a file to the staging area waiting to be committed. You can add multiple files to the staging area before committing them in one go.
git commit -m "description of your change"
This commits all of the staged files as a new version, which the specified commit message.
If you go into your project directory, do a git status and check through the list to make sure there's nothing you don't want to have under version control, then you can do git add . to add everything to the staging area and git commit -m "Check in initial version of the source code" to commit it to the repository.
After you've committed, you can run
git log
To see a history of all of the changes. IntelliJ has a view that will show you the same thing.
Creating an experimental branch
This is where git shines; if you want to try something experimental you can create a branch of your project while allowing git to preserve the original version.
git checkout -b experiment1
Will create and switch to a branch called experiment1. You can delete, rename, move, rewrite and develop whatever you like on this branch. The changes you commit will be independent of your original working version.
You can switch back to your original version (preserving all of the changes you've committed on that branch) using:
git checkout master
Where master is just the name of the default branch created when you ran git init. The experimental version will still be there and can be switched to again using git checkout experiment1 or from IntelliJ using the branch selection in the bottom right corner of the status bar.
If you decide that the changes you've made in experiment1 are to become your new "good" version, you can merge them back into the master branch and repeat the cycle from there.
I need to add a SQL file to my Git repository. For some reason Tower or Git on the command line does not see that I've added a new file whenever it ends in .sql.
I've tried creating an empty .sql and removed everything in .gitignore, but it still doesn't see it.
Any ideas?
You probably have a global gitignore set up. This page on GitHub https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files recommends that SQL files are included in a global git ignore.
Follow instruction on that page to set your own global rules.
How can I retrieve the current Git commit version from within a Ruby on Rails app?
Want to display the Git version (or maybe the last 6 letters or so) to serve as an App version.
Like #meagar said, use backticks to execute the shell command from within your app, but you may find these two commands more useful:
Full hash:
git rev-parse HEAD
First 7 characters of hash:
git rev-parse --short HEAD
You can invoke the git command from within your script:
commit = `git show --pretty=%H`
puts commit
Depending on your environment you may want to use the full path to the git binary, and possibly specify the GIT_DIR via an environment variable or --git-dir.
A more robust solution would be git show --pretty=%H -q. The -q flag quiets the output.
In order to remove the newline that is part of the output, you can use chomp. For example: system('git show --pretty=%H -q').chomp
The selected answer has the potential to actually return the diff when the commit is not a merge commit. Verified on git version 2.16.2.windows.1.
I presume that you want to include the app version in your HTML somewhere? The prerequisite is that you are deploying your repo with Capistrano in the default manner (you are uploading the repo, not sending up an archive file).
You can add some code to the Rails initializer as outlined here. That approach will get the SHA1 from the last commit, and make it available as an environment variable.
The other way to do it is have you Capistrano task generate a static file in the public directory with the commit SHA in it. You could include other info in this file that seems useful.