How to update a git clone –mirror?
This is the command that you need to execute on the mirror: git remote update
git-fetch
Git: How to pull a single file from a server repository in Git?
Short Answer It is possible to do (in the deployed repository): git fetch –all // git fetch will download all the recent changes, but it will not put it in your current checked out code (working area). Followed by: git checkout origin/master — path/to/file // git checkout <local repo name (default is origin)>/<branch name> — … Read more
How do I fetch a branch on someone else’s fork on GitHub? [duplicate]
$ git remote add theirusername git@github.com:theirusername/reponame.git $ git fetch theirusername $ git checkout -b mynamefortheirbranch theirusername/theirbranch Note that there are multiple “correct” URIs you can use for the remote when you add it in the first step. git@github.com:theirusername/reponame.git is an SSH-based URI https://github.com/theirusername/reponame.git is an HTTP URI Which one you prefer to use will depend … Read more
Differences between git remote update and fetch?
Yes and no. git remote update fetches from all remotes, not just one. Without looking at the code to see if remote update is just a shell script (possible) it, basically, runs fetch for each remote. git fetch can be much more granular.
Retrieve specific commit from a remote Git repository
Starting with Git version 2.5+ (Q2 2015), fetching a single commit (without cloning the full repo) is actually possible. See commit 68ee628 by Fredrik Medley (moroten), 21 May 2015. (Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in commit a9d3493, 01 Jun 2015) You now have a new config (on the server side) uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant Allow … Read more
Is it possible to pull just one file in Git?
Here is a slightly easier method I just came up with when researching this: git fetch {remote} git checkout FETCH_HEAD — {file}
What does FETCH_HEAD in Git mean?
FETCH_HEAD is a short-lived ref, to keep track of what has just been fetched from the remote repository. git pull first invokes git fetch, in normal cases fetching a branch from the remote; FETCH_HEAD points to the tip of this branch (it stores the SHA1 of the commit, just as branches do). git pull then … Read more
Why does git say “Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files”?
What is currently happening is, that you have a certain set of files, which you have tried merging earlier, but they threw up merge conflicts. Ideally, if one gets a merge conflict, they should resolve them manually, and commit the changes using git add file.name && git commit -m “removed merge conflicts”. Now, another user … Read more
How to handle git gc fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error?
I don’t understand the ramifications of this, but as suggested in this thread, when I encountered this I just did $ mv .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD /tmp (keeping it around just in case) and then $ git gc worked without complaining; I haven’t run into any problems.
Does “git fetch –tags” include “git fetch”?
Note: starting with git 1.9/2.0 (Q1 2014), git fetch –tags fetches tags in addition to what are fetched by the same command line without the option. To fetch only tags: git fetch <remote> ‘refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*’ In details: See commit c5a84e9 by Michael Haggerty (mhagger): Previously, fetch’s “–tags” option was considered equivalent to specifying the refspec refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* … Read more