You can push an ’empty’ reference to the remote tag name: Or, more expressively, use the –delete option (or -d if your git version is older than 1.8.0): Note that git has tag namespace and branch namespace so you may use the same name for a branch and for a tag. If you want to … 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 … Read more
On your GitHub profile there is an Edit Profile button.It is located on top-right corner of the webpage. Press it and you will see left Personal Settings menu. Inside that menu find SSH and GPG keys option and press it. You will see an option New SSH key to add new key.
The default action of git push and git push origin has changed since git version 1.7.11: Before 1.7.11, git push by default pushes all branches that also exist remotely with the same name. Since 1.7.11, git push by default pushes the current branch to a remote branch with the same name. Before and after version 1.7.11, the default behavior can be configured with the push.default configuration option. This configuration option has … Read more
as long as you did not commit you can type just as the command line suggested.
From git-blame: Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision. When specified one or more times, -L restricts annotation to the requested lines. Example: Please note that git blame does not show the per-line modifications history in the chronological sense. It only … Read more
I guess MERGE_HEAD is only present when a merge is in progress which also is the case when I am resolving conflicts. Correct. Git knows that a git merge is happening (and has not yet finished) because that file exists. (That there are, or at least were, conflicts is usually how you got there. You may or may not have resolved … Read more
I have presented git restore (which is still marked as “experimental”) in “How to reset all files from working directory but not from staging area?“, with the recent Git 2.23 (August 2019). It helps separate git checkout into two commands: one for files (git restore), which can cover git reset cases. one for branches (git … Read more
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.
I have two local git repositories, both pointing to the same remote repository. In one git repository, if I do git format-patch 1, how can I apply that patch to the other repository?