git generally requires a non-empty message because providing a meaningful commit message is part of good development practice and good repository stewardship. The first line of the commit message is used all over the place within git; for more, read “A Note About Git Commit Messages”. If you open Terminal.app, cd to your project directory, … Read more
You cannot push anything that hasn’t been committed yet. The order of operations is: Make your change. git add – this stages your changes for committing git commit – this commits your staged changes locally git push – this pushes your committed changes to a remote If you push without committing, nothing gets pushed. If … Read more
git add adds your modified files to the queue to be committed later. Files are not committed git commit commits the files that have been added and creates a new revision with a log… If you do not add any files, git will not commit anything. You can combine both actions with git commit -a … Read more
If it is VIM for Windows, you can do the following: enter your message following the presented guidelines press Esc to make sure you are out of the insert mode then type :wqEnter or ZZ. Note that in VIM there are often several ways to do one thing. Here there is a slight difference though. … Read more
The minimal required author format, as hinted to in this SO answer, is Name <email> In your case, this means you want to write git commit –author=”Name <email>” -m “whatever” Per Willem D’Haeseleer’s comment, if you don’t have an email address, you can use <>: git commit –author=”Name <>” -m “whatever” As written on the … Read more
If you add to .gitignore: .ipynb_checkpoints (no slashes anywhere), any file or directory in the repo with that name will be ignored. Paths are only checked if you include /. From this answer you can also have a global gitignore for your computer: git config –global core.excludesfile ‘~/.gitignore’ echo ‘.ipynb_checkpoints’ >> ~/.gitignore
For your first question, no, there’s nothing wrong with pushing multiple commits at once. Many times, you may want to break your work down into a few small, logical commits, but only push them up once you feel like the whole series is ready. Or you might be making several commits locally while disconnected, and … Read more
Use the git add command, followed by a list of space-separated filenames. git add file-1 file-2 file-3 Include paths and .extensions, e.g. git add images/logo.png scripts/app.js
Hover your mouse over the 2 years ago and you’ll get the timestamp.
If you add the –preserve-merges option (or its synonym, -p) to the git rebase -i command then git will try to preserve the merges when rebasing, rather than linearizing the history, and you should be able to amend the merge commits as well: git rebase -i -p HEAD~5 Note. –perserve-merges has been deprecated in favour … Read more