For me I didn’t have any uncommitted changes or any untracked files, and Visual Studio 2015 still presented the warning. Close the solution in Visual Studio, exit Visual Studio. Open Git Bash (or your favorite Git UI) Navigate to your repository (or open the repository with the Git UI) git pull (or perform pull on the Git … Read more
I had this issue when I tried to switch temp to another branch from the master branch and when I would change something on that temp page and without committing the changes I would checkout the master branch again, it actually merged all the changes from the TEMP branch into MASTER. ANSWER: Whenever you checkout … Read more
git fetch -u origin master:master Merge, update, and pull Git branches without using checkouts git fetch -u <remote> <remoteBranch>:<localBranch> The -u or –update-head-ok ensures that the command still works even if you have the given branch checked out, which otherwise gives the error: fatal: Refusing to fetch into current branch refs/heads/master of non-bare repository
You can use git cat-file to dump the contents of the file to the standard output and redirect that into your desired destination: git cat-file -p <sha1>:./file.tex > wherever.tex The ./ is necessary if you are in a subdirectory of the repository, if you’re in the top-level of the repository it may be omitted. Also, … Read more
The core use for git checkout –orphan is to create a branch in a git init-like state on a non-new repository. Without this ability, all of your git branches would have a common ancestor, your initial commit. This is a common case, but in no way the only one. For example, git allows you to … Read more
While writing the question, and finding What is the difference between “git branch” and “git checkout -b”? in the list of similar questions, I found the answer myself: $ git checkout -b new_branch_name I guess I was reading the man page for the wrong command, I was expecting this as part of the branch command, … Read more
Another thing you can look at is through your IDE. I accidentally checkout 2 files and was able to bring back the changes through the ‘local history’ of my IDE (Netbeans). What a blessing! If you’re using Eclipse, do this by right clicking on the file and going to Team->Show Local History.
git add dir/C/file.txt # this file will stay modified and staged git checkout . If you want to unstage the file after that: git reset
Assuming the hash of the commit you want is c5f567: git checkout c5f567 — file1/to/restore file2/to/restore The git checkout man page gives more information. If you want to revert to the commit before c5f567, append ~1 (where 1 is the number of commits you want to go back, it can be anything): git checkout c5f567~1 … Read more
Git does deal with wildcards, using fnmatch(3). See the pathspec entry in Git glossary. But to be sure that git can see the wildcards, they must be escaped otherwise your shell will expand them first. Typically, I use wildcards between single-quotes: git checkout myBranch — ‘*/myFile.md’ The wildcards are applied to the whole name, directories … Read more