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I have a project in which I have to change the mode of files with chmod to 777 while developing, but which should not change in the main repo. Git picks up on chmod -R 777 . and marks all …

via npm: npm cache clean -f npm install -g n n stable and also you can specify a desired version: n 0.8.21 In case it doesn't seem to work, the installation gives you a hint : If "node --version" …

Mar 19, 2010 · So what's the problem, It's a ’ (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK - U+2019) character which is being decoded as CP-1252 instead of UTF-8. If you check the Encodings …

Dec 17, 2010 · If you want create a new branch from any of the existing branches in Git, just follow the options. First change/checkout into the branch from where you want to create a new …

About this question - quite often I see a question come through where a novice programmer is "getting an error", and they simply paste their stack trace and some random block of code …

Dec 22, 2011 · Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and fixed it in 2011 for supported operating systems, so if you get the stack trace like: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior …

git config --global --list was also useful for when it doesn't exist as it gave the location of where git is expecting it to be.

Aug 27, 2010 · Is there any quick way to, given an executable file, create a Windows service that, when started, launches it?

How can I download only a specific folder or directory from a remote Git repository hosted on GitHub? Say the example GitHub repository lives here: [email protected]:foobar/Test.git Its …