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Online project hosting using Git.

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects.

It includes source-code browser, in-line editing, wikis, and ticketing.

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Why does Ubuntu use Launchpad instead of GitHub or Bitbucket?

I've been wondering why most Ubuntu projects use Launchpad.net instead of GitHub for the Version Control and bug tracking system. Is there a specific reason as to why Ubuntu uses launchpad (and hence bzr)?
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How to use existing SSH key on my newly installed Ubuntu

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 on my machine. Now I want to use my existing ssh key on my machine, so that I can use GitHub with my previous activities. How do I set this up?
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ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection refused

So I followed the guide on how to add a SSH key to GitHub, and added a new SSH key with a passphrase to GitHub and the SSH agent. Now, if I run ssh -T git@github.com as described in the guide to test if I set everything up correctly, it doesn't even…
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How to download a GitHub repo as .zip using command line

I am trying to download a .zip file from GitHub using the command line in Ubuntu. I am using wget command for it on a remote Ubuntu system. I run wget where is the address bar link of the file which I want to download. It ends with…
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How to use multiple ssh keys with different accounts and hosts

i have multiple ssh keys and i have also have account on bitbucket and github. how when ever i use pull it gives me error :/var/www/proj$ git pull origin master conq: repository access denied. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly or if i ssh…
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How does the Ubuntu Server installer get my ssh key from Github?

I couldn't find a way to get my or other people's public key from Github, but the Ubuntu Server installer can. How can it and how could I get an ssh public key via GitHub username in a script myself?
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Is there a markdown "rich text" editor?

I have become fed up with writing down markdown tables scratch, I need some "rich text editor like" program to automate creation of markdown for me and hence of tables. The only rich text editor I work with is LibreOffice Writer and it doesn't…
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How do you install hub (git wrapper) on Ubuntu with autocomplete and man documentation working?

According to the official docs you just download a pre-compiled binary but this would leave things like man documentation and autocompletion not working.
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Which is the best git client for linux?

I am moving out of a windows enviroment where i used Tortoise Git. I heard linux git clients are pretty poor... can you guys help me finding a good one?
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How do I prevent git from requiring sudo on every git command

I created a directory /var/www to store my web apps clone in. When I initially cloned the app from GitHub it required me to use sudo and every time I do a git pull it's requiring sudo. I'm running into some problems because of this. For example, my…
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Can I use the Launchpad translation service for my GitHub project?

For historical reasons, the project I co-author is on GitHub and we feel comfortable with its development processes. Thus we don't particularly want to migrate the whole project to Launchpad and using bazaar. Being good internet-citizens we want to…
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Can't connect to Github with VS Code

When I try to log in to Github I get this error: "The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files". How can I resolve my problem? OS: Kubuntu 20.04 LTS
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"ssh_askpass exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass) no such file or directory" error when I try to push in Git repo using VS Code

Don't know what happened. But all of sudden I can't push updates in GitHub. A month ago I used SSH keys to integrate VS Code with Github so that I do not have to type email & password every single time when I use to push updates to the Git…
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How to set up Launchpad to import from GitHub?

I'm setting up my first Launchpad project. In this case I would like to import from the Master branch from my GitHub project - the default branch is not Master - it is a release branch currently called "Release-0.6" On Launchpad I have set up to…
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Can't access GitHub via Google Chrome?

I successfully run the command ping github.com. Output is like: PING github.com (192.30.253.112) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from lb-192-30-253-112-iad.github.com (192.30.253.112): icmp_seq=1 ttl=38 time=227 ms 64 bytes from…
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