Assuming the hash of the commit you want is c5f567: The git checkout man page gives more information. If you want to revert to the commit before c5f567, append ~1 (where 1 is the number of commits you want to go back, it can be anything): As a side note, I’ve always been uncomfortable with this command because it’s used for … Read more
.gitkeep isn’t documented, because it’s not a feature of Git. Git cannot add a completely empty directory. People who want to track empty directories in Git have created the convention of putting files called .gitkeep in these directories. The file could be called anything; Git assigns no special significance to this name. There is a competing convention of adding … Read more
You can just delete .git. Typically: Then, recreate as the right user.
I tried to undo my commit in git. Is it dangerous to use git reset –hard HEAD~1? What is the difference between different options for git reset?
TL;DR Use / in the file name field to create folder(s), e.g. typing folder1/file1 in the file name field will create a folder folder1 and a file file1. Original answerYou cannot create an empty folder and then add files to that folder, but rather creation of a folder must happen together with adding of at least a single file. This is because git doesn’t track empty folders. … Read more
If you want to revert the file to its state in master: git checkout origin/master [filename]
The remote repository has been configured to disallow you pushing a commit that would reveal your personal e-mail address. For example in GitHub you have checked the Block command line pushes that expose my email checkbox to enable this. While you can of course uncheck that setting, it will expose your private e-mail address to everyone in the … Read more
If you enabled two-factor authentication in your Github account you won’t be able to push via HTTPS using your accounts password. Instead you need to generate a personal access token. This can be done in the application settings of your Github account. Using this token as your password should allow you to push to your … Read more
says: throw away all my staged and unstaged changes, forget everything on my current local branch and make it exactly the same as origin/master. You probably wanted to ask this before you ran the command. The destructive nature is hinted at by using the same words as in “hard reset”.
.gitignore will prevent untracked files from being added (without an add -f) to the set of files tracked by Git, however Git will continue to track any files that are already being tracked. To stop tracking a file you need to remove it from the index. This can be achieved with this command. If you want to … Read more