How can I retrieve the remote Git address of a repository?
When you want to show an URL of remote branches, try: git remote -v
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“Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally.” after creating a new repository on GitHub
This happens if you initialized a new github repo with README and/or LICENSE file git remote add origin [//your github url] //pull those changes git pull origin master // or optionally, ‘git pull origin master –allow-unrelated-histories’ if you have initialized repo in github and also committed locally //now, push your work to your new repo … Read more
How do I use git bisect?
The idea behind git bisect is to perform a binary search in the history to find a particular regression. Imagine that you have the following development history: … — 0 — 1 — 2 — 3 — 4* — 5 — current You know that your program is not working properly at the current revision, … Read more
How to add a comment in a .gitignore file?
Yes, you may put comments in there. They however must start at the beginning of a line. cf. http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository#Ignoring-Files The rules for the patterns you can put in the .gitignore file are as follows: – Blank lines or lines starting with # are ignored. […] The comment character is #, example: # no .a files … Read more
Go to a particular revision
Before executing this command, keep in mind that it will leave you in a detached head status. Use git checkout <sha1> to check out a particular commit. Where <sha1> is the commit unique number (SHA-1 hash value) that you can obtain with git log. Here are some options after you are in the detached head … Read more
How can I remove/delete a large file from the commit history in the Git repository?
Use the BFG Repo-Cleaner, a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch, specifically designed for removing unwanted files from Git history. Carefully follow the usage instructions. The core part is just this: java -jar bfg.jar –strip-blobs-bigger-than 100M my-repo.git Any files over 100 MB in size (that aren’t in your latest commit) will be removed from your Git … Read more
Can i make Visual Studio Code highlight staged changes?
Not natively (VS Code) or with GitLens (GitHub repo) As you probably know (or written), there is a feature request Right now, I know which lines are not staged (green for new, blue for edited) and maybe when I commit locally, highlight those lines in a different color (purple?) to represent “committed but unpublished.” But … Read more
Is there an internal alternative to gist.github.com to run behind a firewall?
You may check pastgit: git backed paste server (gist python clone) https://github.com/mmikulicic/pastgit Also gitpaste: (another gist clone based on Django) https://github.com/justinvh/gitpaste
How do I make git show diff when rewording a commit message during rebase -i?
According to your answers in the comments, executing git diff HEAD^ will not help you, except if you only want to reword the last commit. But in this case a rebase is the wrong tool anyway. Instead you can simply do git commit –amend –verbose without changes in the index and then edit the commit … Read more
Is there any way to continue Git clone from the point where it failed?
Unfortunately this cannot be done. See Continue interrupted git clone No. git clone cannot be restarted. You’ll need to rm -rf common, and then restart then clone from the beginning. Continue git clone after interruption Unfortunately, we did not have enough GSoC slots for the project to allow restartable clones. There were discussions about how … Read more