Re-establishing git version control to commit files to GitHub repository (Blogdown)

[bjk127]

Hi everyone, I recently created a website using blogdown and now hosting it on a github repository. When I set it up, I used to the terminal to commit files using the git version control. So making changes and then commiting them to my github repository was easy.

However, now when I connect to my project, the git version control does not appear, therefore not allowing me to commit changes within R studio. And in version control, it now says "none". My guess is that the connection between the terminal and github was changed/removed. Does anyone know how to re-establish this? I've looked up instructions, but they all deal with creating the website and using the terminal to download the folder from github again.

[kevinushey]

The Git UI will show here if a Git installation is detected. We typically expect to see the installation in e.g.

C:\Program Files\Git
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git

Can you confirm that you have Git installed? If you open the Git/SVN tab in the Global Options menu, is the Git executable properly configured?

[bjk127]

Hey Kevin. Thanks for your help. Yeah. I think so. I used "git --version" and got this:

$ git --version
git version 2.13.1

And opening up GIT/SVN tab, I get this. I'm not sure if Git executable is properly configured. Should it provide the name of my git folder?

[kevinushey]

Nope, that looks correct, assuming your Git executable does truly live at /usr/bin/git (Sorry, I erroneously assumed you were working on Windows before).

Presumedly, the project you're working on does already have a Git repository initialized? (Does a .git folder exist in that project?)

[bjk127]

Thanks! And I think so. There is the "bjk127.github.io.Rproj" along with the other folders provided with hugo (e.g., config.toml, content folder, layouts folder, public folder).

[bjk127]

Do you know if there's something I can write in the terminal to check this?

[kevinushey]

I think git status would be enough to confirm that you have a Git repository set up for that project.

[bjk127]

Thanks. I've been doing research on this all weekend. I still haven't figured it out and I'm wondering if this issued occurred when I updated my mac to the new software. I found a few websites. One gave instructions to download the homebrew and make sure it's installed properly. So I'm good there. Then below I read:

Enable git for this project

* Click Tools -> Version Control -> Project Setup
* Click the dropdown box Version control system and select Git
* If you don't have a Git option go back to Rstudio.

So that let me to the Rstudio website. The tricky part in my situation is that I have an already existing project. So that's where I'm at now.

[bjk127]

Voilá!!!! It was the issue with MojaveOS. I'm not sure if you have mac, but just in case. You have to re-install command line tools in the terminal.

xcode-select --install

Doing this, the version control now works to commit files to my github repository. Thanks again for your help!