This answer was mostly derived from Git Pathspecs and How to Use Them. I haven’t copied everything over, so look into the link to dig deeper The pathspec is the mechanism that git uses for limiting the scope of a git command to a subset of the repository. If you have used much git, you … Read more
Issue 33301 mentions: the only way to move a project with containers in the registry is to first delete them all. Meaning delete the container tags in the registry (not the repository or CI/CD) Navigate to sidebar menu Package->Container Registry on a project where Container registry is enabled Click on the button “Remove Tag” (since … Read more
The way git displays log messages is that it will take the 1st line and use that in git log –oneline, and then anything else is displayed when using the normal git log, as long as there’s a blank line between the first and second parts: Add summary line here An example of how to … Read more
You won’t lose commits by closing the terminal. ctrl+c will exit the prompt > What happened was you opened up a string with the odd number of ‘ characters. Bash expects more input for your string, and allows you to enter it after the > prompt. Try typing ‘ and hit return, you will get … Read more
git push assumes that you already have a remote repository defined for that branch. In this case, the default remote origin is used. git push origin master indicates that you are pushing to a specific remote, in this case, origin. This would only matter if you created multiple remote repositories in your code base. If … Read more
patchutils has a command grepdiff that can be use to achieve this. # check that the regex search correctly matches the changes you want. git diff -U0 | grepdiff ‘regex search’ –output-matching=hunk # then apply the changes to the index git diff -U0 | grepdiff ‘regex search’ –output-matching=hunk | git apply –cached –unidiff-zero I use … Read more
Git does not support per-branch excludes files You’re trying to achieve something that Git does not support. The blog post is the original source of this hoax that the Stack Overflow answer only parroted. As noted in comments under that answer, even the original blog post contains a discussion that brings out that the solution … Read more
Given that Git uses a directed acyclic graph and usually a repo only has one root, all your branches point back to one initial commit. So what you actually want is the branch that shares the largest part of its history with your branch. You cannot just look for a branch whose HEAD is contained … Read more
This depends in part how you’ve done your 100+ commits and what’s been happening in the meantime. Four strategies might be useful: Reduce the number of commits to rebase If you have a beautiful clear stream of 100 commits that never modify the same code twice, I’m sorry, but you are stuck. However, from 100 … Read more
I just had that same issue while running git clone … to download source code from a private Git repository in BitBucket into a Docker image. I solved it by disabling the SSL check like so: GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1 git clone … Notice that there is no && between the Environment arg and the git clone command. … Read more