When you fetch you get the remote branches, but you still need to merge the changes from the remote branch into your local branch to see those changes. After fetching, try this: Do you see the difference? Now do: You should see remote changes in the newbranchname. You can also merge those changes into your … Read more
Using git version 1.7.9.5 there is no “remove” command for remote. Use “rm” instead. or, as noted in the previous answer, set-url works. I don’t know when the command changed, but Ubuntu 12.04 shipped with 1.7.9.5. edit: a few people seem to have run into a situation where they do not have an “upstream” remote. … Read more
You can fetch and then check out only one file in this way: Regarding the git checkout command: <revision> — a branch name, i.e. origin/master <yourfilepath> does not include the repository name (that you can get from clicking copy path button on a file page on GitHub), i.e. README.md
What is currently happening is, that you have a certain set of files, which you have tried merging earlier, but they threw up merge conflicts. Ideally, if one gets a merge conflict, he should resolve them manually, and commit the changes using git add file.name && git commit -m “removed merge conflicts”. Now, another user has … Read more
The problem is that you are not tracking the files locally but identical files are tracked remotely so in order to “pull” your system would be forced to overwrite the local files which are not version controlled. Try running This will track all files, remove all of your local changes to those files, and then … Read more
⚠ Important: If you have any local changes, they will be lost. With or without –hard option, any local commits that haven’t been pushed will be lost.[*] If you have any files that are not tracked by Git (e.g. uploaded user content), these files will not be affected. First, run a fetch to update all origin/<branch> refs to latest: Backup your … Read more
In the simplest terms, git pull does a git fetch followed by a git merge. You can do a git fetch at any time to update your remote-tracking branches under refs/remotes/<remote>/. This operation never changes any of your own local branches under refs/heads, and is safe to do without changing your working copy. I have even heard of people running git fetch periodically in a cron … Read more
The problem is that you are not tracking the files locally but identical files are tracked remotely so in order to “pull” your system would be forced to overwrite the local files which are not version controlled. Try running This will track all files, remove all of your local changes to those files, and then … Read more
What is currently happening is, that you have a certain set of files, which you have tried merging earlier, but they threw up merge conflicts. Ideally, if one gets a merge conflict, he should resolve them manually, and commit the changes using git add file.name && git commit -m “removed merge conflicts”. Now, another user has … Read more
The problem is that you are not tracking the files locally but identical files are tracked remotely so in order to “pull” your system would be forced to overwrite the local files which are not version controlled. Try running This will track all files, remove all of your local changes to those files, and then … Read more