The short answer is that once you have some commits, you want to git rebase them, using the long form of git rebase: git rebase –onto newbase upstream. To find out how to identify each of these, see the (very) long answer below. (Unfortunately, it got a bit out of hand and I do not … Read more
You are stuck in the middle of a rebase. If you have merged/solved conflicts for all the paths: use git add . to commit resolved items. use git rebase –continue to complete the process. Or use git rebase –abort to exit the rebase process without any risk.
Git v2.37.1 and above If you are using the mentioned version or above you can use this new config entry to automatically setup remote tracking: git config –global push.autoSetupRemote true After that, when you do git push tracking is setup automatically. No need for git push -u origin my_branch A shortcut, which doesn’t depend on … Read more
If you are using this form of the branch command (with start point), it does not matter where your HEAD is. What you are doing: git checkout dev git branch test 07aeec983bfc17c25f0b0a7c1d47da8e35df7af8 First, you set your HEAD to the branch dev, Second, you start a new branch on commit 07aeec98. There is no bb.txt at … Read more
To rename the current branch: git branch -m <newname> To rename a branch while pointed to any branch: git branch -m <oldname> <newname> -m is short for –move. To push the local branch and reset the upstream branch: git push origin -u <newname> To delete the remote branch: git push origin –delete <oldname> To create … Read more
I think you want this: git symbolic-ref -q –short HEAD || git describe –tags –exact-match That will output the value of HEAD, if it’s not detached, or emit the tag name, if it’s an exact match. It’ll show you an error otherwise.
You want branch descriptions: git branch –edit-description This will open up your editor and let you attach metadata to the branch. You can extract it with: git config branch.<branch>.description A couple of important notes: This is stored locally. By definition it can’t be pushed since it’s stored in .git/config. All the same it works great … Read more
The git flow is not installed in your machine. Just run this command, macOS: $ brew install git-flow-avh Linux: $ apt-get install git-flow Windows: $ wget -q -O – –no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh/develop/contrib/gitflow-installer.sh install stable | bash Source git-flow cheatsheet by Daniel Kummer After successful installation run git flow init in your project and then follow the … Read more
The default options for git fetch (and consequently git pull) do not prune deleted remote branches. I’m not sure what the logic behind this default is. In any case, to prune deleted remote branches, either fetch with git fetch -p or run git remote prune [-n] <name> explicitly. With the -n flag, it will report … Read more
I don’t know a native way yet, but you can do it following this recipe: Fork the repository in question (called ‘upstream’) on the GitHub website to your workspace there. Run the GitHub desktop application and clone the repository onto your PC. Use the GitHub desktop application to open a shell in the repository. (The … Read more