I was facing same error when I was trying to clone a repository on a PC with freshly installed operating system. I was using Git bash as my Git client. When I ran Git’s command to clone a repository it was not prompting me for user id and password which will be used for authentication. It was … Read more
For me this worked (won’t change in remote): git remote prune origin Since this answer seems to help a lot of people, I dug a little bit into what actually happens here. What this will do is remove references to remote branches in the folder .git/refs/remotes/origin. So this will not affect your local branches and it … Read more
When I git init a folder it doesn’t create a master branch This is true, and expected behaviour. Git will not create a master branch until you commit something. When I do git –bare init it creates the files. A non-bare git init will also create the same files, in a hidden .git directory in the root of your project. When I type git branch master it … Read more
what worked for me is , remove .git folder copy .git from other repo now git checkout Before Removing , You can try ALL THE BEST
You can review the differences with a: before pulling it (fetch + merge) (see also “How do you get git to always pull from a specific branch?”) When you have a message like: “Your branch and ‘origin/master’ have diverged, # and have 1 and 1 different commit(s) each, respectively.” , check if you need to update origin. If origin is up-to-date, then some commits … Read more
Update Apr. 2021: there are a few tools created by the community that can do this for you: Download Directory (Credits to fregante) It has also been integrated into the excellent Refined Github chrome extension as a button in the Github web UI. GitZip (Credits to Kino – see his answer here) DownGit (Credits to Minhas Kamal – see his answer here) Note: if you’re trying to download a … Read more
It seems like you want the files ignored but they have already been commited. .gitignore has no effect on files that are already in the repo so they need to be removed with git rm –cached. The –cached will prevent it from having any effect on your working copy and it will just mark as removed the next … Read more
Are you working with a detached head by any chance? As in: indicating that your latest commit is not a branch head. Warning: the following does a git reset –hard: make sure to use git stash first if you want to save your currently modified files. As mentioned in the git checkout man page (emphasis mine): It is sometimes useful to be able … 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.
git diff for unstaged changes. git diff –cached for staged changes. git diff HEAD for both staged and unstaged changes.