November 24, 2014 Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft MVP , Trainer and Consultant

An error was raised by libgit Category =Ssh error: solved git for Visual Studio

Have you come across the error as shown in below image?

You get the above shown error in Visual Studio while pulling changes from the git server. This error causes because you have local changes without the commit. In this scenario the visual Studio does not give very readable error message. Perhaps you may want to use git command for pull for more information on the error.

The git pull command clearly says that either commit the changes or stash them. If you are not sure about the local changes then better option is to stash them. Local changes can be stashed using the git stash command.

After stashing the local changes (you can commit also) run the git pull command to pull the remote changes from the git server. You should not get any error doing pulling the latest changes.

Hope it helps. Happy coding.

August 28, 2014 Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft MVP , Trainer and Consultant

Unable to index file: Permission Denied error in git add command

While working on an application, I had to commit changes to local Git Repository. It was usual task and I started with following command,

git add –A

To surprise git add command gave me error as shown in image below. Error message was clear that to a particular file there was Permission denied.

Note: I was working on a MVC application which had local database attached. Name of database was MoviesRTM.mdf.

I tried to commit using Visual Studio 2013 as well. Here also I got same error as shown in image below,

This can be solved by two ways either shutting down IIS Express or restarting Visual Studio. I was using IIS Express to host MVC application. You can shut down IIS Express by right click on IIS Express and click on Exit from context menu.

If this option is not working then try restarting Visual Studio.

Note: Restarting Visual Studio or Shutting down IIS Express may worked in this scenario because permission denies error was on a database file (extension mdf). And database was locally created.

After shutting down I was able to run git add command successfully.

Happy coding.

August 26, 2014 Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft MVP , Trainer and Consultant

Getting Started with Git and GitHub

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Who is not talking about Git or GitHub? In one of our recent user group meetings, someone asked how many Pull Requests have you done so far in any of open source projects on GitHub. I realized many developers in the room were puzzled with the phrase Pull Request. In this post I will explain some basic Git terminology and explore basic Git commands which will help you get started with Git. In a later post I plan to show you how you can work with Git-based Source Control and Visual Studio 2013.

Let us start with understanding basic terminologies:

Repository

A Repository is a space where projects reside. Repository can be on a local computer or at an online host like GitHub or Team Foundation Server (TFS). If you are working in project then a Repository is basic unit of working . It will contain all the files, images etc. needed for the project. It should always contains a readme file, which describes the project

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August 23, 2012August 23, 2012 Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft MVP , Trainer and Consultant

Working with github on Windows

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In this post we will see step by step to configure github for windows and the way to sync the project from windows to github repository. To start with very first you need to create a repository on github. To create repository login to github and click on New repository option

Once you click on New repository button you will get prompted to fill many information’s like repository name, description etc. You can make repository public or private by selecting respective radio button. If you are starting new then it is always good to initialize the repository with a README. It allows git to clone the repository immediately. Please refer below image for more on creating new repository

Once repository is created you will be navigated to repository page and can find all the information about repository as following image

At this point you have created repository in github and now you need to download and configure Windows Client of github on your machine. On the github page in the bottom you will find link to download windows client for github

After downloading and installing github windows client you will find icon on your desktop. Click that icon. Github windows client will be launched. In the left side you see local and github account. When you click on github account you will find all the repositories from the github.

To start working with github repositories, first you need to clone that. You will get clone button next to repository.

After successful cloning you will find button changed as shown in following image.

Double click on the repository to open it. After opening the repository you can notice in top a tool menu. From there you got option

Open in explorer
Open a shell here
View on github

To work with project select open in explorer. It will open the repository in windows explorer. Now suppose you have a visual studio solution you want to push on github, you need to follow below steps

Open VS project in window explorer and copy the solution.

You need to copy all files from VS solution open in windows explorer to github repository open in windows explorer.

After copying files to github repository open in windows explorer go to github for windows client and click on the refresh button

After refreshing double click on testproject repository. You may notice that a blue array next to repository name saying this repository has been modified. Click on the blue arrow or double click on the repository to navigate to detail repository page. On this screen you will find

Details of files to be committed
Option to commit the changes with comment

After providing comment you need to click on the commit button to commit the changes locally. After committing you will get message that one change committed locally though it is not synced.

To sync changes with github you need to click on sync button in top. If there is any locally committed change available then you will find sync button in blue else it would be in gray color. Once you click on sync button changes will get committed to github

You can verify sync in two ways. Either navigate to github and you will find all changes with comment there.

The other way is that you will see on github windows client in sync displayed.

The approach should be to put working files in local repository or cloned repository such that whenever you do any changes github for windows will detect that and you can locally commit and eventually sync with the github. In this way you can work with github and windows. I hope you find it useful. Thanks for reading.

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