Switch current branch in git bare repository
Try this instead of git checkout: git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/develop Then you should be able to delete master.
git-checkout
How can I get a list of Git branches that I’ve recently checked out?
Summary: You can use Git’s reflog to show recent movements in order of checkout: git reflog Script: Here’s a script you can download and use via git recent from inside any Git repository: https://gist.github.com/jordan-brough/48e2803c0ffa6dc2e0bd Usage: $ (master) git recent -n 5 1) master 4) deleted-branch 2) stable 5) improve-everything 3) fun Choose a branch: 2 … Read more
How to do ‘git checkout –theirs’ for multiple files (or all unmerged files)
The solution for my case ended up being to simply use a wildcard in the directory path, since the files were grouped: git checkout –theirs directory_name/* git add directory_name/* This may also work, according to helios456: git checkout –theirs directory_name/.
Can I use “git checkout –” on two files?
Run the command multiple times git checkout — path/to/file/one git checkout — path/to/file/two Or specify the multiple files in the same line: git checkout — path/to/file/one path/to/file/two You can also specify entire folders which will recurse to all files below them. git checkout — path/to/folder git checkout — . # for the current path
error: pathspec ‘test-branch’ did not match any file(s) known to git
The modern Git should able to detect remote branches and create a local one on checkout. However if you did a shallow clone (e.g. with –depth 1), try the following commands to correct it: git config remote.origin.fetch ‘+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*’ git fetch –all and try to checkout out the branch again. Alternatively try to unshallow your clone, … Read more
What’s the git equivalent of “svn update -r”?
git checkout HEAD~1 This will move your current HEAD to one revision earlier. git checkout <sha> This will move your current HEAD to the given revision. Use git log or gitk to find the revision you’re looking for.
How do I intentionally detach HEAD in git?
Since git 1.7.5 (April 2011), you can use the git checkout –detach command. (Since Git 2.23 (Q3 2019), you would use git switch –detach) See commit 326696 checkout: introduce –detach synonym for “git checkout foo^{commit}“ For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to test that two topics work well together. Commit … Read more
git clone and checkout in a single command
git clone u://r/l –branch x still clones everything but sets the local HEAD to that branch so it’s the one checked out. Source: –branch <name> -b <name> Instead of pointing the newly created HEAD to the branch pointed to by the cloned repository’s HEAD, point to <name> branch instead. In a non-bare repository, this is … Read more
Fetch a single tag from remote repository
git fetch origin refs/tags/1.0.0 This fails because it doesn’t write a local reference: it obtains the remote’s refs/tags/1.0.0, and any tag object(s), commits, etc., required to go with it; it drops those into FETCH_HEAD (as all git fetch commands always do); and … that’s it. It never creates reference refs/tags/1.0.0 in your repository, even though … Read more