Even though your history has changed, you can create branches that let you go back and experiment. Git means never having to say, “you should have.” If you converge on a reality you like better, then go with it. Otherwise, throw it away. The examples below will create new branches that leave everything else in … Read more
Update: The -m and -M options to git branch were upgrade in Git 2.30 to allow renaming the not-yet-existing current branch name in special situations, such as when you’re in a new, empty repository. You mention in your own answer that git branch -m main (or the same with -M) only works once you have … Read more
Git is agnostic in the sense that it doesn’t matter which files you put under version control. When git can’t recognise the type of a file it just treats it as binary data for versioning purposes; so diff etc. will just state that the files are different by a number of bytes. So to answer … Read more
The Solution The following one-liner worked for me where <regex> is a POSIX Extended Regular Expression. This requires grepdiff but it was already included in my Ubuntu distribution. git diff -U1 -G<regex> –pickaxe-regex \ | grepdiff -E <regex> –output-matching=hunk \ | git apply –cached How it works The first line shows all differences whose patch … Read more
If you are looking for something robust and easy to maintain, I’d encourage you to develop a solution around GitHub Webhooks. Yes it will require you to deploy a HTTP server, say a Node.js server, and it will require a small amount of development (your requirements are fairly specific), but I think it will pay-off … Read more
You need to use a filter-branch along with the –prune-empty option to remove any commits that no longer introduce new changes. git filter-branch –index-filter ‘git rm –cached –ignore-unmatch -rf dir1 dir2 dirN file1 file2 fileN’ –prune-empty -f HEAD After that, if you want to recover disk space you will need to delete all the original … Read more
Modern git servers (beginning in git 1.7.12.1) will return their version information in the capabilities negotiation in the protocol. While it’s accurate that there’s no git command that you can run locally, you can simply query the git server for the information and a recent version will provide the version number. You can find this … Read more
It seems you can use relative URLs for submodules. From git help submodules: COMMANDS add […] <repository> is the URL of the new submodule’s origin repository. This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ or ../), the location relative to the superproject’s origin repository So, if you follow the same … Read more
It really is just “commit and leave the commit dialog open.” Based on the discussion here: https://tortoisegit.org/issue/527 Also see the official documentation: https://tortoisegit.org/docs/tortoisegit/tgit-dug-commit.html
From the git-config man page: remote.<name>.url The URL of a remote repository. See git-fetch(1) or git-push(1). remote.<name>.pushurl The push URL of a remote repository. See git-push(1). Try setting the former to an http: url and the latter to a git+ssh: (or just git:) url?