works as of git version 2.11 Original answer, possibly helping to debug issues with the older syntax involving shell escapes: As pointed out previously, the curly braces may require escaping or quoting depending on your OS, shell, etc. See “stash@{1} is ambiguous?” for some detailed hints of what may be going wrong, and how to … Read more
When you cherry-pick, it creates a new commit with a new SHA. If you do: then at least you’ll get the commit message from the original commit appended to your new commit, along with the original SHA, which is very useful for tracking cherry-picks.
Cherry picking in Git means to choose a commit from one branch and apply it onto another. This is in contrast with other ways such as merge and rebase which normally apply many commits onto another branch. Make sure you are on the branch you want to apply the commit to. git switch master Execute … Read more
From git branch it appears that somehow your local branch name is “origin”. You can rename the branch with -mv flag, like this: git branch -mv origin master After this git branch should show master 🙂 Just to make sure the name is indeed the only thing that went astray, you can run git log and look at the last few commits – and compare … Read more
Maybe you just need to commit. I ran into this when I did: Oops! Never committed! All I had to do was: Success!
Maybe you just need to commit. I ran into this when I did: Oops! Never committed! All I had to do was: Success!
This answer only applies to Git version 1.x. For Git version 2.x, see other answers. Summary: git add -A stages all changes git add . stages new files and modifications, without deletions (on the current directory and its subdirectories). git add -u stages modifications and deletions, without new files Detail: git add -A is equivalent to git add .; git add -u. The important point … Read more
To avoid confusion,recent versions of git deprecate this somewhat ambiguous –set-upstream optionin favor of a more verbose –set-upstream-to optionwith identical syntax and behavior. sets the default remote branch for the current local branch. Any future git pull command (with the current local branch checked-out),will attempt to bring in commits from the <remote-branch> into the current local branch. One way to avoid having to explicitly type –set-upstream / –set-upstream-to is … Read more
To avoid confusion,recent versions of git deprecate this somewhat ambiguous –set-upstream optionin favor of a more verbose –set-upstream-to optionwith identical syntax and behavior. sets the default remote branch for the current local branch. Any future git pull command (with the current local branch checked-out),will attempt to bring in commits from the <remote-branch> into the current local branch. One way to avoid having to explicitly type –set-upstream / –set-upstream-to is … Read more
If you want to rename a branch while pointed to any branch, do: If you want to rename the current branch, you can do: If you want to push the local branch and reset the upstream branch: And finally if you want to Delete the remote branch: A way to remember this is -m is … Read more