EDIT: As of Git 2.19, this is finally possible, as can be seen in this answer. Consider upvoting that answer. Note: in Git 2.19, only client-side support is implemented, server-side support is still missing, so it only works when cloning local repositories. Also note that large Git hosters, e.g. GitHub, don’t actually use the Git … Read more
Just type git init into your command line and press enter. Then run your command again, you probably were running git remote add origin [your-repository]. That should work, if it doesn’t, just let me know.
I don’t understand, why you don’t want to set the $HOME environment variable since that solves exactly what you’re asking for. cd ~ doesn’t mean change to the root directory, but change to the user’s home directory, which is set by the $HOME environment variable. Quick’n’dirty solution Edit C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\profile and set $HOME variable … Read more
git cherry-pick‘ should be your answer here. Apply the change introduced by an existing commit. Do not forget to read bdonlan‘s answer about the consequence of cherry-picking in this post:“Pull all commits from a branch, push specified commits to another”, where: becomes: The problem with this commit is that git considers commits to include all … Read more
You are right about the first one. Here are the rest of them: Checkout: Fetches the latest changes. You should already have this repo downloaded. It does not merge those new changes but makes your working directory reflect them. And a name-less commit is created to include these changes in your working directory. And a … Read more
You can use rebase, for instance, git rebase our-team when you are on your branch featurex. It will move the start point of the branch at the end of your our-team branch, merging all changes in your featurex branch.
Since Git 2.0.0, git add will also stage file deletions. Git 2.0.0 Docs – git-add < pathspec >… Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. *.c) can be given to add all matching files. Also a leading directory name (e.g. dir to add dir/file1 and dir/file2) can be given to update the index to match the current … Read more
I tried to merge two branches and this is what i did and what happened: i am new to this so can i get simple answers.
If you want to fetch + merge, run if you want simply to fetch :
This error means that the upstream repository has made commits that would be lost if you were to push. First do a “git pull” to merge, and then push again.