These messages are due to an incorrect default value of core.autocrlf on Windows. The concept of autocrlf is to handle line endings conversions transparently. And it does! Bad news: the value needs to be configured manually. Good news: it should only be done one time per Git installation (per project setting is also possible). How … Read more
If you hadn’t made any commit yet, only (1: branch) and (3: checkout) would be enough. Or, in one command: git checkout -b newBranch With Git 2.23+ (Q3 2019), the new command git switch would create the branch in one line (with the same kind of reset –hard, so beware of its effect): # First, … Read more
I think that Git on Dropbox is great. I use it all the time. I have multiple computers (two at home and one at work) on which I use Dropbox as a central bare repository. Since I don’t want to host it on a public service, and I don’t have access to a server that … Read more
You need to set up your global core.excludesfile configuration file to point to this global ignore file e.g: *nix or Windows git bash: git config –global core.excludesFile ‘~/.gitignore’ Windows cmd: git config –global core.excludesFile “%USERPROFILE%\.gitignore” Windows PowerShell: git config –global core.excludesFile “$Env:USERPROFILE\.gitignore” For Windows it is set to the location C:\Users\%username%\.gitignore. You can verify that … Read more
This will unstage all files you might have staged with git add: git reset This will revert all local uncommitted changes (should be executed in repo root): git checkout . You can also revert uncommitted changes only to particular file or directory: git checkout [some_dir|file.txt] Yet another way to revert all uncommitted changes (longer to … Read more
Git has a limit of 4096 characters for a filename, except on Windows when Git is compiled with msys. It uses an older version of the Windows API and there’s a limit of 260 characters for a filename. So as far as I understand this, it’s a limitation of msys and not of Git. You … Read more
After pruning, you can get the list of remote branches with git branch -r. The list of branches with their remote tracking branch can be retrieved with git branch -vv. So using these two lists you can find the remote tracking branches that are not in the list of remotes. This line should do the … Read more
There are a few ways to accomplish that: Change your local branch and then push your changes Push the branch to remote with the new name while keeping the original name locally Renaming local and remote # Rename the local branch to the new name git branch -m <old_name> <new_name> # Delete the old branch … Read more
IF you have NOT pushed your changes to remote git reset HEAD~1 Check if the working copy is clean by git status. ELSE you have pushed your changes to remote git revert HEAD This command will revert/remove the local commits/change and then you can push
For full path names of changed files: git log –name-only For full path names and status of changed files: git log –name-status For abbreviated pathnames and a diffstat of changed files: git log –stat There are a lot more options. Check out the documentation.