The files/folder in your version control will not just delete themselves just because you added them to the .gitignore. They are already in the repository and you have to remove them. You can just do that with this: Remember to commit everything you’ve changed before you do this! This removes all files from the repository and … Read more
You can (see git help remote) or you can edit .git/config and change the URLs there. You’re not in any danger of losing history unless you do something very silly (and if you’re worried, just make a copy of your repo, since your repo is your history.)
You can’t merge with local modifications. Git protects you from losing potentially important changes. You have three options: Commit the change using git 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, type git stash Do the merge, and … Read more
Say your bug fix branch is called bugfix and you want to merge it into master: This will take all the commits from the bugfix branch, squash them into 1 commit, and merge it with your master branch. Explanation: Switches to your master branch. Takes all commits from the bugfix branch and groups it for … Read more
You can fetch all branches from all remotes like this: It’s basically a power move. fetch updates local copies of remote branches so this is always safe for your local branches BUT: fetch will not update local branches (which track remote branches); if you want to update your local branches you still need to pull … Read more
You’re overthinking this. Git requires the SSH key to do the transfer. In order for this to work, you need an account on GitHub. If you have already generated an SSH key pair for other sites, you can reuse that one. All you need to do is log into GitHub.com and copy it there in … Read more
The easiest way would be to find the head commit of the branch as it was immediately before the rebase started in the reflog… and to reset the current branch to it (with the usual caveats about being absolutely sure before reseting with the –hard option). Suppose the old commit was HEAD@{2} in the ref … Read more
You might need to start ssh-agent before you run the ssh-add command: Note that this will start the agent for msysgit Bash on Windows. If you’re using a different shell or operating system, you might need to use a variant of the command, such as those listed in the other answers. See the following answers: ssh-add complains: Could not open a … Read more
The files/folder in your version control will not just delete themselves just because you added them to the .gitignore. They are already in the repository and you have to remove them. You can just do that with this: Remember to commit everything you’ve changed before you do this! This removes all files from the repository and … Read more
Git is a revision control system, a tool to manage your source code history. GitHub is a hosting service for Git repositories. So they are not the same thing: Git is the tool, GitHub is the service for projects that use Git. To get your code to GitHub, have a look here.