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
Probably the simplest way to achieve this is with git archive. If you really need just the expanded tree you can do something like this. Most of the time that I need to ‘export’ something from git, I want a compressed archive in any case so I do something like this. ZIP archive: git help archive for … Read more
You will also probably want to use the –init option which will make it initialize any uninitialized submodules: Note: in some older versions of Git, if you use the –init option, already-initialized submodules may not be updated. In that case, you should also run the command without –init option.
Note: the git1.7.10 (April 2012) actually allows you to clone only one branch: (<url> is the URL if the remote repository, and does not reference itself the branch cloned) You can see it in t5500-fetch-pack.sh: Tobu comments that: This is implicit when doing a shallow clone.This makes git clone –depth 1 the easiest way to save bandwidth. And since Git 1.9.0 (February 2014), shallow clones … Read more
The following command deletes all your stashes: From the git documentation: clear Remove all the stashed states. IMPORTANT WARNING: Those states will then be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover (…).
The simple answer – there are plenty of more complicated ones – is to just do a merge, so: (This is effectively the same as you describe in option 2) Depending on your settings, you might not need all of those steps (but doing them all won’t hurt) – I’d recommend reading up on each … Read more
Cygwin uses persistent shared memory sections, which can on occasion become corrupted. The symptom of this is that some Cygwin programs begin to fail, but other applications are unaffected. Since these shared memory sections are persistent, often a system reboot is needed to clear them out before the problem can be resolved.
git pull is nothing but git fetch followed by git merge. So what you can do is git fetch remote example_branch git merge <commit_hash>
Update 2020 / Git 2.23 Git 2.23 adds the new switch subcommand in an attempt to clear some of the confusion that comes from the overloaded usage of checkout (switching branches, restoring files, detaching HEAD, etc.) Starting with this version of Git, replace the checkout command with: The behavior is identical and remains unchanged. Before Update 2020 / Git … Read more
They’re basically the same, except clone will setup additional remote tracking branches, not just master. Check out the man page: Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository (visible using git branch -r), and creates and checks out an initial branch that is forked from the … Read more