Commit will simply make record of your changes that you have made on your local machine. It will not mark the change in the remote repository. Commit and Push will do the above and push it to the remote repository. This means that any changes you have made will be saved to the remote repository … Read more
If it’s only on your local PC (or noone checked out your changes): Use: git log to find the commit you want to remove. Copy hash (the long sqeuence like: e8348ebe553102018c…). Use: git rebase -i [hash]~ : for example git rebase -i e8348~ Just remove the commit you don’t need and save the file. Interactive … Read more
Basically git commit “records changes to the repository” while git push “updates remote refs along with associated objects“. So the first one is used in connection with your local repository, while the latter one is used to interact with a remote repository. Here is a nice picture from Oliver Steele, that explains the git model … Read more
Note: please see an alternative to git rebase -i in the comments below— git reset –soft HEAD^ First, remove the commit on your local repository. You can do this using git rebase -i. For example, if it’s your last commit, you can do git rebase -i HEAD~2 and delete the second line within the editor window that pops up. Then, force … Read more
As the message says: no changes added to commit (use “git add” and/or “git commit -a”) Git has a “staging area” where files need to be added before being committed, you can read an explanation of it here. For your specific example, you can use: (note the extra a in the flags, can also be written as git commit … Read more
Your local branch doesn’t know about the remote branch. If you don’t tell git that your local branch (master) is supposed to compare itself to the remote counterpart (origin/master in this case); then git status won’t tell you the difference between your branch and the remote one. So you should use: or with the short option: This options –set-upstream-to (or -u in … Read more
In $ git reflog you should find some of your commits. Once you find the latest commit that you want to move to you should reset back to your commit id $ git reset _Your_Hash_ , as $ git reset –soft just reset the files and not the index or working tree.
You can’t merge with local modifications. Git protects you from losing potentially important changes. You have three options: Commit the change usinggit commit -m “My message” Stash it.Stashing acts as a stack, where you can push changes, and you pop them in reverse order.To stash, typegit stash Do the merge, and then pull the stash:git … Read more
It’s not a Git error message, it’s the editor as git uses your default editor. To solve this: press “i” (i for insert) write your merge message press “esc” (escape) write “:wq” (write & quit) then press enter