Github does not provide such functionality. Github repositories are either public or private, both not both. However, if the part you want to share is small enough (let’ say 4-5 files) you can create a public gist. Unfortunately, there is no way to update the gist automatically.
This article advises to instead of merging two branches, you would rebase them where git would only rebase non duplicate commits. But instead of cherry-picking, you might consider just rebasing the branch: rebase –onto release B bug where release is the release branch and bug is the bug branch. You then get something like C’—D’ … Read more
Christopher is right, tagging will help you do this. I recommend deleting the branch name too to make it a little harder for someone to checkout the branch and make edits. First, merge the branch into develop git checkout develop git merge –no-ff feature_1 Then checkout the branch git checkout feature_1 Then create a tag, … Read more
Given that Git uses a directed acyclic graph and usually a repo only has one root, all your branches point back to one initial commit. So what you actually want is the branch that shares the largest part of its history with your branch. You cannot just look for a branch whose HEAD is contained … Read more
I think you want to: git fetch –all -Pp where: git fetch Download objects and refs from another (remote) repository –all fetch all remotes. -P remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the remote. -p remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote. for more use git fetch –help We … Read more
Could somebody please help me understand how CMOV improves branching? Well, it does NOT improve branching, it removes it. A CMOV could be seen as two instructions in one, a MOV and a NOP. Which one is executed depends on the flags. So internally it may look like if (cond) { mov dst, src } … Read more
As pointed out in the comments and in Jackub’s answer, as long as your branch is younger than the number of days set in the config setting gc.reflogexpire (the default is 90 days), then you can utilize your reflog to find out when a branch reference was first created. Note that git reflog can take … 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
So you have this: o–o–o–A–B <- older unnecessary head \ 1–2–3–4–5–6 <- newer ‘good’ head …and you don’t need A and B, absolutely, 100% sure. If you aren’t sure, and there are possibly salvageable things in A and B, better merge the heads to combine the changes. As Aaron said, Mercurial is good at it. … Read more
Cherry-pick commit to target branch and reset source branch. Assuming, you want to move the latest commit from source branch to target, do: git checkout target git cherry-pick source git checkout source git reset –hard source^ If the commit wasn’t the last, you will have to use git rebase -i instead of the last command … Read more