Two problems: 1 – You never told Git to start tracking any file You write that you ran git init git commit -m “first commit” and that, at that stage, you got nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use “git add” to track). Git is telling you that you never told it to … Read more
Here’s the long answer. Remotes: If you’re using Git collaboratively, you’ll probably need to sync your commits with other machines or locations. Each machine or location is called a remote, in Git’s terminology, and each one may have one or more branches. Most often, you’ll just have one, named origin. To list all the remotes, … Read more
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.
Take a clone of a remote repository and run git branch -a (to show all the branches git knows about). It will probably look something like this: * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master Here, master is a branch in the local repository. remotes/origin/master is a branch named master on the remote named origin. You can … Read more
I came to this question looking for an explanation about what the message “your branch is ahead by…” means, in the general scheme of git. There was no answer to that here, but since this question currently shows up at the top of Google when you search for the phrase “Your branch is ahead of … Read more
When you do the initial push add the -u parameter: git push -u origin my_branch:remote_branch Subsequent pushes will go where you want. EDIT: As per the comment, that only sets up pull. git branch –set-upstream should do it.
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.
You can use git push -u <remote_name> <local_branch_name> to set the default upstream. See the documentation for git push for more details.
git push can push all branches or a single one dependent on this configuration: Push all branches git config –global push.default matching It will push all the branches to the remote branch and would merge them. If you don’t want to push all branches, you can push the current branch if you fully specify its … Read more
You have your arguments to the remote add command reversed: git remote add <NAME> <PATH> So: git remote add bak /home/sas/dev/apps/smx/repo/bak/ontologybackend/.git See git remote –help for more information.