If you aren’t totally sure what you mean by “uncommit” and don’t know if you want to use git reset, please see “Revert to a previous Git commit”. If you’re trying to understand git reset better, please see “Can you explain what “git reset” does in plain English?”. If you know you want to use git reset, it still … 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
Since Git 2.16.1(2) you can use In version between 2.14.2 and 2.16.1, the command was (It was later renamed to avoid confusion with updating the local repository, e.g. like svn update does it.) That command does not exist in Git 2.13 and before. If this errors with “is not a git command” then either you don’t actually … Read more
You want to use git diff. Where <commit> is your branch name, the hash of a commit or a shorthand symbolic reference For instance git diff abc123…def567 or git diff HEAD..origin/master That will produce the diff between the tips of the two branches. If you’d prefer to find the diff from their common ancestor to test, you can use three dots instead of two: … Read more
Update: Using Git Switch All of the information written below was accurate, but a new command, git switch has been added that simplifies the effort. If daves_branch exists on the remote repository, but not on your local branch, you can simply type: Since you do not have the branch locally, this will automatically make switch look on the remote repo. It … Read more
GitHub isn’t able to authenticate you. So, either you aren’t setup with an SSH key, because you haven’t set one up on your machine, or your key isn’t associated with your GitHub account. You can also use the HTTPS URL instead of the SSH/git URL to avoid having to deal with SSH keys. This is GitHub’s recommended … Read more
Maybe you just need to commit. I ran into this when I did: Oops! Never committed! All I had to do was: Success!
Another quicker way is: You don’t need to include –include-untracked if you don’t want to be thorough about it. After that, you can drop that stash with a git stash drop command if you like.
You can undo git add before commit with which will remove it from the current index (the “about to be committed” list) without changing anything else. You can use without any file name to unstage all due changes. This can come in handy when there are too many files to be listed one by one in a … Read more
below is used to a add a new remote: below is used to change the url of an existing remote repository: below will push your code to the master branch of the remote repository defined with origin and -u let you point your current local branch to the remote master branch: