As of December 2017 if you are using the latest version of less (at least 530) then the below is slightly incorrect. Now -F alone will properly output short output (as if by cat) while not needing -X. Since you can now use -F alone to see short output this means long output will still … Read more
In Bitbucket, the base branch is the last branch that you have selected from the list of branches. If you select another branch in the drop-down menu, you will see how the “base branch” icon moves to the newly selected one. In Git itself, there is no base branch concept. This was answered in What … Read more
The — separates the paths from the other options. From the documentation: git checkout [-f|–ours|–theirs|-m|–conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [–] <paths>… If this notation didn’t exist the following two commands would be ambiguous: git checkout <tree-ish> <path1> <path2> git checkout <path1> <path2> <path3> With the — notation it is clear which is meant: git checkout <tree-ish> — <path1> … Read more
In my case, on windows, It was not working after setting of name, e mail as well as certificates path for git config. following command run from command prompt fixed this issue. git config –global http.sslcainfo “C:\Program Files\Git\usr\ssl\certs\ca-bundle.crt” path of your ca-bundle.crt may vary in your case.
You can use the Package Manager Console (in the bottom tab in VS) to run Git commands. see here
On the top of my head: its distributed aspect (each developer has a copy of the repository) The ability to handle complex merges very quickly the possibility to switch from task to task, shelve his work, go back to it… cheap branching (instant switch: it just writes a few bits in a file! And it … Read more
Git does not have branch specific permissions. You can either make the whole repository read only to the people or create one private and one public repository and only push the development branch to the public on while keeping the master only in your private repository. Edit: For branch specific permissions, you need a server-side … Read more
I just tried it without key, and I confirm it cannot work (without SSH key): $ git clone [email protected]:rlpowell/config.git Cloning into ‘config’… Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. That is because GitHub won’t authorize anonymous access through SSH … Read more
If git only shows that the directory is untracked, then every file in it (including files in subdirectories) is untracked. If you have some ignored files in the directory, pass the -u flag when running git status (i.e., git status -u) to show the status of individual untracked files.