You will also probably want to use the –init option which will make it initialize any uninitialized submodules: Note: in some older versions of Git, if you use the –init option, already-initialized submodules may not be updated. In that case, you should also run the command without –init option.
Note: the git1.7.10 (April 2012) actually allows you to clone only one branch: (<url> is the URL if the remote repository, and does not reference itself the branch cloned) You can see it in t5500-fetch-pack.sh: Tobu comments that: This is implicit when doing a shallow clone.This makes git clone –depth 1 the easiest way to save bandwidth. And since Git 1.9.0 (February 2014), shallow clones … Read more
Cygwin uses persistent shared memory sections, which can on occasion become corrupted. The symptom of this is that some Cygwin programs begin to fail, but other applications are unaffected. Since these shared memory sections are persistent, often a system reboot is needed to clear them out before the problem can be resolved.
git pull is nothing but git fetch followed by git merge. So what you can do is git fetch remote example_branch git merge <commit_hash>
Update 2020 / Git 2.23 Git 2.23 adds the new switch subcommand in an attempt to clear some of the confusion that comes from the overloaded usage of checkout (switching branches, restoring files, detaching HEAD, etc.) Starting with this version of Git, replace the checkout command with: The behavior is identical and remains unchanged. Before Update 2020 / Git … Read more
They’re basically the same, except clone will setup additional remote tracking branches, not just master. Check out the man page: Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository (visible using git branch -r), and creates and checks out an initial branch that is forked from the … Read more
Update: There’s now an automated solution See https://stackoverflow.com/a/66470086/151312 Original Post As of now Github doesn’t have an unfork option, so the only solution is to delete the forked repo. Warning: The following solution will delete your cloned repo. If you want unfork without your repo is being deleted try this https://stackoverflow.com/a/41486339/6335029 Step 1: Goto Settings of Repo you want to … Read more
It can be easily retrieved using GitHub API: where instead of your_github_user_name you must use the desired GitHub username. Example:https://api.github.com/users/github
As already been said, to exclude from status just use: If you instead want to permanently ignore currently untracked files you can, from the root of your project, launch: Every subsequent call to git status will explicitly ignore those files. UPDATE: the above command has a minor drawback: if you don’t have a .gitignore file … Read more
Another way to make a directory stay (almost) empty (in the repository) is to create a .gitignore file inside that directory that contains these four lines: Then you don’t have to get the order right the way that you have to do in m104’s solution. This also gives the benefit that files in that directory … Read more