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Github for Windows is a Windows client for the Github social coding community. It also offers integration with non GitHub-hosted git repositories.

Github for Windows is a Windows client for the GitHub social coding community. It also offers integration with non GitHub-hosted git repositories. Thought this is primarily a GitHub client it can also be used for standalone git projects that you might not wanted published on GitHub.

Questions with this tag should relate to the GitHub for Windows client, and not to Git or GitHub as a whole.

The official website for the application is: http://windows.github.com/

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Where is git.exe located?

I have PyCharm and I am looking around trying to find git.exe to set it up with my repo. What is the PATH to git.exe?
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Change Git repository directory location.

With Git/Github for Windows, if I have a repository with this directory: C:\dir1\dir2, what do I need to do to move the repo files to C:\dir1? I can obviously physically copy and paste the files, but what do I need to do on the Git side? I have…
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Git: Installing Git in PATH with GitHub client for Windows

How do I install Git in my PATH when using the GitHub client for Windows? I'm running into errors because apparently Git is not installed in PATH. For example, using Atom, trying to install the Linter plugin gives this error: npm ERR! not found:…
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Github Windows 'Failed to sync this branch'

I am using Github Windows 1.0.38.1 and when I click the 'Sync' button after committing, I get the error How do I debug this problem? If in the shell, what should I do? The sync works fine if i do a git push or git pull, but the next time I want to…
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GitHub Windows client behind proxy

I'm trying to get the GitHub client for Windows working. I am on a corporate Win 7 x64 computer behind a corporate proxy and firewall. Following various other posts and experimenting with multiple combinations of environment variables and config…
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What does GitHub for Windows' "sync" do?

With GitHub for Windows, you can "publish" a branch, and then "sync" that branch to GitHub. Is the sync basically a git pull and git push? Or is there more to it? If I wanted to do the exact same steps as "sync" from the command line, what should I…
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Does GitHub for Windows work with GitLab?

While working on a project using GitHub I've fallen in love with GitHub for Windows as a client. Now a new project beckons where I'll be using GitLab instead of GitHub. Will I still be able to use GitHub for Windows as a client for GitLab? After…
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What does a grey icon in remote GitHub mean

Can anyone please tell me why i have the grey icon when i push my files to github ? In side the app directory, there should be models, views , and controllers but in the remote GitHub I can't click in.
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git command could not be found and could not find ssh-agent

I was on GitHub today and realized I was behind on updates from a repo. I tried to fetch updates, but it failed from the outset. I received two messages when I started up Git Shell (from GitHub for Windows): Warning: git command could not be found.…
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Where does GitHub for Windows keep its SSH key?

GitHub distributes a simplified Git client for Windows they call GitHub for Windows; it authenticates via GitHub account, and although it usually uses HTTPS remotes for local repositories it creates, if you tell it to use an existing local…
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How do I delete a local branch on Github Desktop?

Last week I upgraded my Windows Github to Github Desktop. It is certainly a lot faster than that last update they made for Github Windows. It also has a nice little visual timeline of commits and maybe I am being dumb, but the ability to delete…
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Use GitHub for Windows for both Bitbucket and GitHub

Is it possible to use GitHub for Windows for both Bitbucket and GitHub at once? For example, can I have repo on both sites show up in the program, and when I commit/synch a repo, it push to the respective repo on the respective website?
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Git: Clone from a branch other than master

I am trying to pull from a repository in Github. But I don't want to clone the master branch. I want to clone some other branch. When I try git clone , I get the files from the master branch. What should I do? Also, suppose the code is updated…
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I can't find my git.exe file in my Github folder

I downloaded Github for windows and installed it on my computer, which runs windows 7. I tried to open a project with Android Studio but it says "Can't start Git: git.exe" and "IDE error". When I click "Fix it" it shows: "Cannot run program…
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Unable to pull/push in git repository

$ git pull origin master fatal: unable to access 'https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx': error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: C:/Users/abc/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/usr/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt CApath: none I am getting this error when I…
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