To turn any extended object reference into a hash, use git-rev-parse: git rev-parse HEAD or git rev-parse –verify HEAD To retrieve the short hash: git rev-parse –short HEAD To turn references (e.g. branches and tags) into hashes, use git show-ref and git for-each-ref.
.gitkeep isn’t documented, because it’s not a feature of Git. Git cannot add a completely empty directory. People who want to track empty directories in Git have created the convention of putting files called .gitkeep in these directories. The file could be called anything; Git assigns no special significance to this name. There is a … Read more
git diff –name-only SHA1 SHA2 where you only need to include enough of the SHA hash to identify the commits. You can also do, for example git diff –name-only HEAD~10 HEAD~5 to see the differences between the tenth latest commit and the fifth latest (or so).
It should just be: git diff –cached –cached means show the changes in the cache/index (i.e. staged changes) against the current HEAD. –staged is a synonym for –cached. –staged and –cached does not point to HEAD, just difference with respect to HEAD. If you cherry pick what to commit using git add –patch (or git … Read more
With version 2.13 of Git and later, –recurse-submodules can be used instead of –recursive: git clone –recurse-submodules -j8 git://github.com/foo/bar.git cd bar Editor’s note: -j8 is an optional performance optimization that became available in version 2.8, and fetches up to 8 submodules at a time in parallel — see man git-clone. With version 1.9 of Git … Read more
Probably the simplest way to achieve this is with git archive. If you really need just the expanded tree you can do something like this. git archive master | tar -x -C /somewhere/else Most of the time that I need to ‘export’ something from git, I want a compressed archive in any case so I … Read more
How I would do this git checkout master git pull origin master git merge test git push origin master If I have a local branch from a remote one, I don’t feel comfortable with merging other branches than this one with the remote. Also I would not push my changes, until I’m happy with what … Read more
Try: git config core.fileMode false From git-config(1): core.fileMode Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree is to be honored. Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a non-executable file with executable bit on. git-clone(1) or git-init(1) probe … Read more
To untrack a single file that has already been added/initialized to your repository, i.e., stop tracking the file but not delete it from your system use: git rm –cached filename To untrack every file that is now in your .gitignore: First commit any outstanding code changes, and then, run this command: git rm -r –cached … Read more
Interactive rebase off of a point earlier in the history than the commit you need to modify (git rebase -i <earliercommit>). In the list of commits being rebased, change the text from pick to edit next to the hash of the one you want to modify. Then when git prompts you to change the commit, … Read more