The wiki is talking from a forked repo point of view. You have access to pull and push from origin, which will be your fork of the main diaspora repo. To pull in changes from this main repo, you add a remote, “upstream” in your local repo, pointing to this original and pull from it. … Read more
I wanted to rename one of my repositories on GitHub, but I got scared when a big red warning said: We will not set up any redirects from the old location You will need to update your local repositories to point to the new location Renaming may take a few minutes to complete Does anyone … Read more
Private clone URLs take the form [email protected]:username/repo.git – perhaps you needed to use git@ rather than git://? git:// URLs are read only, and it looks like private repos do not allow this form of access.
I need to add some rules to my .gitignore file. However, I can’t find it in my project folder. Isn’t it created automatically by Xcode? If not, what command allows me to create one?
The steps you listed will work, but there’s a longer way that gives you more options: The fetch command can be done at any point before the merge, i.e., you can swap the order of the fetch and the checkout, because fetch just goes over to the named remote (origin) and says to it: “gimme everything you have that I … Read more
Well, according to the documentation you link to, its sole purpose is to split and clarify the two different uses of git checkout: git switch can now be used to change branches, as git checkout <branchname> does git restore can be used to reset files to certain revisions, as git checkout –<path_to_file> does People are confused by these different ways to use git … Read more
Delete the .git directory in the root-directory of your repository if you only want to delete the git-related information (branches, versions). If you want to delete everything (git-data, code, etc), just delete the whole directory. .git directories are hidden by default, so you’ll need to be able to view hidden files to delete it.
You can create the branch via a hash: Or by using a symbolic reference: To checkout the branch when creating it, use
The –no-ff flag prevents git merge from executing a “fast-forward” if it detects that your current HEAD is an ancestor of the commit you’re trying to merge. A fast-forward is when, instead of constructing a merge commit, git just moves your branch pointer to point at the incoming commit. This commonly occurs when doing a git pull without any local changes. However, occasionally … Read more
I think what you need is touch command if you are on unix operating system. Git can however allow you to do a empty commit if you use –allow-empty option. Eg. $ git commit –allow-empty -m “Trigger notification” would cause an empty commit which you can then push and do another deploy.