Just delete the file called index.lock which is in the .git folder. After you delete it, try to commit again. Steps Navigate to the desired folder in your file explorer Go to folder options and tick on “Show Hidden Files” (this might have a different name depending on your OS) There will be a .git … Read more
Following the FAQ article “How to Rename the master branch to main in Git”, and the GitHub documentation itself, you can: rename your local branch from master to main: git branch -m master main push to main: git push -u origin main update your default branch on GitHub side: Then delete the remote master branch: … Read more
All git commits have a committer field internally; you can see this by typing git cat-file commit HEAD immediately after committing something. As such you cannot erase it; you can only make it equal to the author field. That said, you might be seeing git porcelain showing the commit field because the datestamp has changed. … Read more
You can right click on the browser after opening the stale branches and run this in the browser java script console. To delete all the stale branches. i.e) this script automatically clicks to the next page and proceeds to delete stale branches in the next page. async function deleteStaleBranches(delay=500) { var stale_branches = document.querySelectorAll(‘[aria-label=”Delete branch”]’); … Read more
If you are getting the following error: Warning: the ECDSA host key for ‘github.com’ differs from the key for the IP address ‘IP_ADDRESS’ I would recommend to do the following: $ ssh-keygen -R github.com If that does not work then remove the IP itself from known-host: $ ssh-keygen -R IP_ADDRESS This should would fix your … Read more
You need to quote the string, because your shell is eating the content of the {} as an expansion. So use git stash apply ‘stash@{2}’. Alternatively you can use the SHA of the stash, or next time when you apply it, you can name the stash yourself.
On the bottom of the side panel, there is an account icon (usually its sitting right above the cog icon). Click on it, click on your user name, and choose “log out”.
You have a very clear explanation of how this works in the chapter on Acenstry References in Pro Git: ~ is used to get the first parent. ^ can be used to get the other parents (^2, for example, for a merge). But you don’t have a simple way to reference the next commit, even … Read more
I started getting the same error messages for every service after my last upgrade. I made them go away by creating an alias for credential-manager. git config –global alias.credential-manager “credential-manager-core” Other than the error messages, the credential-manager seems to have been working correctly both before and after creating the alias.