Git Update Local Branch with remote Master

The simple answer – there are plenty of more complicated ones – is to just do a merge, so: (This is effectively the same as you describe in option 2) Depending on your settings, you might not need all of those steps (but doing them all won’t hurt) – I’d recommend reading up on each … Read more

GitLab remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied and fatal Authentication

It happens every time I’m forced to change the Windows password and none of the above answers helped me. Try the below solution which works for me: Go to Windows Credential Manager. This is done in an EN-US Windows by pressing the Windows Key and typing ‘credential’. In other localized Windows variants you need to use … Read more

Pull request vs Merge request

 Answer recommended by GitLab GitLab’s “merge request” feature is equivalent to GitHub’s “pull request” feature. Both are means of pulling changes from another branch or fork into your branch and merging the changes with your existing code. They are useful tools for code review and change management. An article from GitLab discusses the differences in naming the feature: Merge or pull requests … Read more

How can I switch to another branch in git?

If another_branch already exists locally and you are not on this branch, then git checkout another_branch switches to the branch. If another_branch does not exist but origin/another_branch does, then git checkout another_branch is equivalent to git checkout -b another_branch origin/another_branch; git branch -u origin/another_branch. That’s to create another_branch from origin/another_branch and set origin/another_branch as the … Read more

How to merge branch to master?

If you want to merge your branch to master on remote, follow the below steps: push your branch say ‘br-1’ to remote using git push origin br-1. switch to master branch on your local repository using git checkout master. update local master with remote master using git pull origin master. merge br-1 into local master using git merge br-1. … Read more