There are a few ways to accomplish that: Change your local branch and then push your changes Push the branch to remote with the new name while keeping the original name locally Renaming local and remote Renaming Only remote branch Credit: ptim Important note: When you use the git branch -m (move), Git is also updating your tracking branch with … Read more
If you like the method in the link you’ve posted, have a look at Git Flow. It’s a set of scripts he created for that workflow. But to answer your question: Creates MyFeature branch off dev. Do your work and then Now merge your changes to dev without a fast-forward Now push changes to the server … Read more
This looks similar to How do I get github to default to ssh and not https for new repositories. Probably it’s worth trying to switch from http protocol to ssh:
The one displayed in the top right corner in GitHub is your GitHub username – this is the one you use to login to GitHub when you enter the site and when you commit over HTTPS, and the one that appears in the URLs of your GitHub repositories. The one you create using git config is your Git username – this … Read more
It’s not a Git error message, it’s the editor as git uses your default editor. To solve this: press “i” (i for insert) write your merge message press “esc” (escape) write “:wq” (write & quit) then press enter
-p let’s you select the hunks that should be stashed; whole files can be selected as well. You’ll be prompted with a few actions for each hunk:
Expanding what I wrote in a comment The general rule is that you should not rewrite (change) history that you have published, because somebody might have based their work on it. If you rewrite (change) history, you would make problems with merging their changes and with updating for them. So the solution is to create … Read more
What is currently happening is, that you have a certain set of files, which you have tried merging earlier, but they threw up merge conflicts. Ideally, if one gets a merge conflict, he should resolve them manually, and commit the changes using git add file.name && git commit -m “removed merge conflicts”. Now, another user has … Read more
Alright with the help of the other two answers I’ve come up with a direct solution:
You have two options: The first is a merge, but this creates an extra commit for the merge. Checkout each branch: Then merge: Then push: Alternatively, you can do a rebase: