You can reference those remote tracking branches ~(listed with git branch -r) with the name of their remote. You need to fetch the remote branch: If you want to merge one of those remote branches on your local branch: Note 1: For a large repo with a long history, you will want to add the –depth=1 option when you … Read more
First, clone a remote Git repository and cd into it: Next, look at the local branches in your repository: But there are other branches hiding in your repository! You can see these using the -a flag: If you just want to take a quick peek at an upstream branch, you can check it out directly: But if you want to work … Read more
If you do a git pull with a remote branch name, it will fetch the remote branch and then merge it into your current local branch. So to undo that, you will first have to reset your local branch to the remote master, then create a new local vs12up branch from the corresponding remote branch. Reset your local master to match the … Read more
Run this from the branch where you want the file to end up: General formulas: Some notes (from comments): Using the commit hash, you can pull files from any commit This works for files and directories Overwrites the file myfile.txt and mydir Wildcards don’t work, but relative paths do Multiple paths can be specified An alternative:
If you are using this form of the branch command (with start point), it does not matter where your HEAD is. What you are doing: First, you set your HEAD to the branch dev, Second, you start a new branch on commit 07aeec98. There is no bb.txt at this commit (according to your github repo). If you want to start a new branch at … Read more
Thanks for everyone.I just had to define my email and username by these two lines and everything worked :
You can create the branch via a hash: Or by using a symbolic reference: To checkout the branch when creating it, use
Simple Git 2.0+ solution: As of Git 2.0, the behavior has become simpler: You can configure git with push.default = current to make life easier: I added this so now I can just push a new branch upstream with -u will track remote branch of the same name. Now with this configuration, you will auto-guess the remote reference to … Read more
should show all the local branches of your repo. The starred branch is your current branch. If you want to retrieve only the name of the branch you are on, you can do: or with Git 2.22 and above:
Use the git diff branch branch filename syntax: put the two names of your branches and optionally use the — filename option to specify one file! Good luck, let me know if you have issues.