If not yet committed anywhere (git status shows a bunch of stuff modified, it’s OK if it’s “git add”-ed too): $ git checkout -b newbranch Despite the name checkout this usage (with -b) does not check anything out. The -b flag says “create a new branch”, so git creates the branch-name and makes it correspond … Read more
You have to keep in mind that there are different types of branches: (Purely) local branches, i.e. branches you commit to, Branches that live in a remote repository, for lack of a better term. You may know the remote repository in question under a remote name, such as origin. From that repository’s point of view, … Read more
Try to install plugin: Settings -> Plugins -> Browse repositories -> type GitLab Projects Plugin minimum version 1.3.0 and go to Settings -> Other Settings -> GitLab Settings Fill GitLab Server Url with https://gitlab.com/ (ensure slash at the end) and GitLab API Key with string (private token which is shown as the first thing on: … Read more
Edit 2018: Since my 2010-2012-2014 answer, in 2015 Git for Windows uses msys2, as I detail here. See more in “How are msys, msys2, and msysgit related to each other?”. Edit (2 more years later: October 2014) Johannes Schindelin just explained (Oct. 2014) that msysgit is phased out: We now have a light-weight Git for … Read more
3 Steps to Commit your changes Suppose you have created a new branch on GitHub with the name feature-branch. FETCH git pull –all Pull all remote branches git branch -a List all branches now Checkout and switch to the feature-branch directory. You can simply copy the branch name from the output of branch -a command … Read more
This error is caused by your filesystem not being case sensitive, like the default on Mac OS X.
It ignores all files whose name ends in ~, which is a usual suffix for text editors backup files. * is a special symbol and means “any sequence of zero or more characters”, while ~ is just an ordinary character. Putting the two parts together: “zero or more characters followed by a ~”.
Rebasing my Cygwin install solved this for me. I followed the doc Rebaseall, running dash as admin from Windows Explorer and then issuing the following: /usr/bin/rebaseall -v P.S.: No Cygwin service should be running for this to work.
Read this question. You want: # Blacklist everything * # Whitelist all directories !*/ # Whitelist the file you’re interested in. !*.cocci Note, this’ll track only *.cocci files. Yours doesn’t work because you ignore everything (that’s the first line), which ignores all subdirectories.
Use this command git rm –cached <filename> git rm –cached -r <dir_name> git commit -m “Removed folder from repository” git push origin master This removes the filename from the index, without touching your working tree.