From the theoretical point of view: tags are symbolic names for a given revision. They always point to the same object (usually: to the same revision); they do not change. branches are symbolic names for line of development. New commits are created on top of branch. The branch pointer naturally advances, pointing to newer and … Read more
These articles may help: Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax (Git is MacGyver and Mercurial is James Bond) The Differences Between Mercurial and Git Edit: Comparing Git and Mercurial to celebrities seems to be a trend. Here’s one more: Git is Wesley Snipes, Mercurial is Denzel Washington
The simplest way is to do: git push –all origin This will push tags and branches.
Set the svn:ignore property of the parent directory: svn propset svn:ignore dirname . If you have multiple things to ignore, separate by newlines in the property value. In that case it’s easier to edit the property value using an external editor: svn propedit svn:ignore .
This should work: git show branch:file Where branch can be any ref (branch, tag, HEAD, …) and file is the full path of the file. To export it you could use git show branch:file > exported_file You should also look at VonC’s answers to some related questions: How to retrieve a single file from specific … Read more
Go to the file you want to download. Click it to view the contents within the GitHub UI. In the top right, right click the Raw button. Save as…
How do you create a new project/repository? A git repository is simply a directory containing a special .git directory. This is different from “centralised” version-control systems (like subversion), where a “repository” is hosted on a remote server, which you checkout into a “working copy” directory. With git, your working copy is the repository. Simply run … Read more
To permanently accept a specific certificate Try http.sslCAPath or http.sslCAInfo. Adam Spiers’s answer gives some great examples. This is the most secure solution to the question. To disable TLS/SSL verification for a single git command try passing -c to git with the proper config variable, or use Flow’s answer: git -c http.sslVerify=false clone https://example.com/path/to/git To … Read more
Check out the aq branch, and rebase from master. git checkout aq git rebase master
Yes: git rev-parse –show-toplevel If you want to replicate the Mercurial command more directly, you can create an alias: git config –global alias.root ‘rev-parse –show-toplevel’ and now git root will function just as hg root. Note: In a submodule this will display the root directory of the submodule and not the parent repository. If you … Read more