Phew, haven’t used SVN in a while… 🙂 But from what I can remember Branch locations should be the folder containing your branches folders (and not each individual branch folder). You see, typically a SVN repo follows a standard naming convention and folder structure: trunk/ branches/ Feature_A2/ Feature_A3/ tags/ v1.01/ v1.02/ and so on… trunk … Read more
Run this from the branch where you want the file to end up: git checkout otherbranch myfile.txt General formulas: git checkout <commit_hash> <relative_path_to_file_or_dir> git checkout <remote_name>/<branch_name> <file_or_dir> Some notes (from comments): Using the commit hash, you can pull files from any commit This works for files and directories Overwrites the file myfile.txt and mydir Wildcards … Read more
Update 2019: These days, the question would be seen in a context using Git, and 10 years of using that distributed development workflow (collaborating mainly through GitHub) shows the general best practices: master is the branch ready to be deployed into production at any time: the next release, with a selected set of feature branches … Read more
You could merge your upstream branch to your dev branch, with a custom merge driver “keepTheirs”: See ““git merge -s theirs” needed — but I know it doesn’t exist“. In your case, only one .gitattributes would be required, and a keepTheirs script like: mv -f $3 $2 exit 0 git merge –strategy=theirs Simulation #1 Shows … Read more
How I would do this git checkout master git pull origin master git merge test git push origin master If I have a local branch from a remote one, I don’t feel comfortable with merging other branches than this one with the remote. Also I would not push my changes, until I’m happy with what … Read more
Moving to an existing branch If you want to move your commits to an existing branch, it will look like this: git checkout existingbranch git merge master git checkout master git reset –hard HEAD~3 # Go back 3 commits. You *will* lose uncommitted work. git checkout existingbranch You can store uncommitted edits to your stash … Read more