The raw.githubusercontent.com domain is used to serve unprocessed versions of files stored in GitHub repositories. If you browse to a file on GitHub and then click the Raw link, that’s where you’ll go. The URL in your question references the install file in the master branch of the Homebrew/install repository. The rest of that command just retrieves the file and runs ruby on its contents.
If your excess commits are only visible to you, you can just do git reset –hard origin/<branch_name> to move back to where the origin is. This will reset the state of the repository to the previous commit, and it will discard all local changes. Doing a git revert makes new commits to remove old commits in a way that keeps everyone’s history sane.
The wiki is talking from a forked repo point of view. You have access to pull and push from origin, which will be your fork of the main diaspora repo. To pull in changes from this main repo, you add a remote, “upstream” in your local repo, pointing to this original and pull from it. … Read more
I wanted to rename one of my repositories on GitHub, but I got scared when a big red warning said: We will not set up any redirects from the old location You will need to update your local repositories to point to the new location Renaming may take a few minutes to complete Does anyone … Read more
Private clone URLs take the form [email protected]:username/repo.git – perhaps you needed to use git@ rather than git://? git:// URLs are read only, and it looks like private repos do not allow this form of access.
I need to add some rules to my .gitignore file. However, I can’t find it in my project folder. Isn’t it created automatically by Xcode? If not, what command allows me to create one?
The steps you listed will work, but there’s a longer way that gives you more options: The fetch command can be done at any point before the merge, i.e., you can swap the order of the fetch and the checkout, because fetch just goes over to the named remote (origin) and says to it: “gimme everything you have that I … Read more
Well, according to the documentation you link to, its sole purpose is to split and clarify the two different uses of git checkout: git switch can now be used to change branches, as git checkout <branchname> does git restore can be used to reset files to certain revisions, as git checkout –<path_to_file> does People are confused by these different ways to use git … Read more
Delete the .git directory in the root-directory of your repository if you only want to delete the git-related information (branches, versions). If you want to delete everything (git-data, code, etc), just delete the whole directory. .git directories are hidden by default, so you’ll need to be able to view hidden files to delete it.
You can create the branch via a hash: Or by using a symbolic reference: To checkout the branch when creating it, use