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
Update Apr. 2021: there are a few tools created by the community that can do this for you: Download Directory (Credits to fregante) It has also been integrated into the excellent Refined Github chrome extension as a button in the Github web UI. GitZip (Credits to Kino – see his answer here) DownGit (Credits to … Read more
What you are trying to do is called a sparse checkout, and that feature was added in Git 1.7.0 (Feb. 2012). The steps to do a sparse clone are as follows: mkdir <repo> cd <repo> git init git remote add -f origin <url> This creates an empty repository with your remote, and fetches all objects … Read more
If you want to merge project-a into project-b: cd path/to/project-b git remote add project-a /path/to/project-a git fetch project-a –tags git merge –allow-unrelated-histories project-a/master # or whichever branch you want to merge git remote remove project-a Taken from: git merge different repositories? This method worked pretty well for me, it’s shorter and in my opinion a … Read more
Option A: git clone git@github.com:whatever folder-name Ergo, for right here use: git clone git@github.com:whatever . Option B: Move the .git folder, too. Note that the .git folder is hidden in most graphical file explorers, so be sure to show hidden files. mv /where/it/is/right/now/* /where/I/want/it/ mv /where/it/is/right/now/.* /where/I/want/it/ The first line grabs all normal files, the … Read more
The git rm documentation states: When –cached is given, the staged content has to match either the tip of the branch or the file on disk, allowing the file to be removed from just the index. So, for a single file: git rm –cached file_to_remove.txt and for a single directory: git rm –cached -r directory_to_remove