You can create tags for GitHub by either using: the Git command line, or GitHub’s web interface. Creating tags from the command line To create a tag on your current branch, run this: If you want to include a description with your tag, add -a to create an annotated tag: This will create a local tag with the current state … Read more
origin is an alias on your system for a particular remote repository. It’s not actually a property of that repository. By doing you’re saying to push to the origin repository. There’s no requirement to name the remote repository origin: in fact the same repository could have a different alias for another developer. Remotes are simply an alias that store the URL of repositories. You … Read more
I was always under the impression that you could give a stash a name by doing git stash save stashname, which you could later on apply by doing git stash apply stashname. But it seems that in this case all that happens is that stashname will be used as the stash description. Is there no way to actually name … Read more
To stash your working directory including untracked files (especially those that are in the .gitignore) then you probably want to use this cmd: Alternatively, you can use the shorthand -u instead of –include-untracked, or simply git stash –all which stashes all files, including untracked and ignored files. This bahaviour changed in 2018, so make sure your git is up to date. Warning: there seems to … Read more
See the git-pull man page: git pull [options] [<repository> [<refspec>…]] and in the examples section: Merge into the current branch the remote branch next: $ git pull origin next So I imagine you want to do something like: To set it up so that it does this by default while you’re on the dev branch:
As the error message says: git pull before you try to git push. Apparently your local branch is out of sync with your tracking branch. Depending on project rules and your workflow you might also want to use git pull –rebase.
Heroku has a set of default buildpacks, used when it needs to detect the language of your app.In order to do that detection, it runs the bin/detect command of each of those default buildpacks, until one of them returns a 0 exit code. This is the command for the node buildpack.As you can see, it requires a package.json to … Read more
Setting your branch to exactly match the remote branch can be done in two steps: If you want to save your current branch’s state before doing this (just in case), you can do: Now your work is saved on the branch “my-saved-work” in case you decide you want it back (or want to look at … Read more
Instead of creating a new repository on Github, cloning that, or reinitializing your local repository, the following command would have been sufficient: origin stands for the remote name (default is origin),master is the branch you want to push, in your case it’s master, otherwise you would have to change that in the command.-u means, that your local branch … Read more
You can’t merge with local modifications. Git protects you from losing potentially important changes. You have three options: Commit the change usinggit commit -m “My message” Stash it.Stashing acts as a stack, where you can push changes, and you pop them in reverse order.To stash, typegit stash Do the merge, and then pull the stash:git … Read more