If you mean you want the pull to overwrite local changes, doing the merge as if the working tree were clean, well, clean the working tree: git reset –hard git pull If there are untracked local files you could use git clean to remove them. git clean -f to remove untracked files -df to remove … Read more
The Short Answer As long as you’re doing a fast-forward merge, then you can simply use git fetch <remote> <sourceBranch>:<destinationBranch> Examples: # Merge local branch foo into local branch master, # without having to checkout master first. # Here `.` means to use the local repository as the “remote”: git fetch . foo:master # Merge … Read more
If you want remove all local changes – including files that are untracked by git – from your working copy, simply stash them: git stash push –include-untracked If you don’t need them anymore, you now can drop that stash: git stash drop If you don’t want to stash changes that you already staged – e.g. … Read more
You could specify what branch you want to pull: git pull origin master Or you could set it up so that your local master branch tracks github master branch as an upstream: git branch –set-upstream-to=origin/master master git pull This branch tracking is set up for you automatically when you clone a repository (for the default … Read more
The closest thing to renaming is deleting and then recreating on the remote. For example: git branch -m master master-old git push remote :master # Delete master git push remote master-old # Create master-old on remote git checkout -b master some-ref # Create a new local master git push remote master # Create master on … Read more
The git submodule update command actually tells Git that you want your submodules to each check out the commit already specified in the index of the superproject. If you want to update your submodules to the latest commit available from their remote, you will need to do this directly in the submodules. So in summary: … Read more
From August 13, 2021, GitHub is no longer accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations. You need to add a PAT (Personal Access Token) instead, and you can follow the below method to add a PAT on your system. Create Personal Access Token on GitHub From your GitHub account, go to Settings => Developer Settings … Read more
A common cause is cloning using the default (HTTPS) instead of SSH. You can correct this by going to your repository, clicking “Clone or download”, then clicking the “Use SSH” button above the URL field and updating the URL of your origin remote like this: git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repo.git You can check if you … Read more