From August 13, 2021, GitHub is no longer accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations. You need to add a PAT (Personal Access Token) instead, and you can follow the below method to add a PAT on your system. Create Personal Access Token on GitHub From your GitHub account, go to Settings => Developer Settings … Read more
Generate a new token from GitHub’s developer settings Update the remote URL: git remote set-url origin https://<token>@github.com/<Git_URL> Pull once: git pull https://<token>@<Git_URL>.git And you are good to go.
git pull = git fetch + git merge against tracking upstream branch git pull –rebase = git fetch + git rebase against tracking upstream branch If you want to know how git merge and git rebase differ, read this.
FETCH_HEAD is a short-lived ref, to keep track of what has just been fetched from the remote repository. git pull first invokes git fetch, in normal cases fetching a branch from the remote; FETCH_HEAD points to the tip of this branch (it stores the SHA1 of the commit, just as branches do). git pull then … Read more
If you want remove all local changes – including files that are untracked by git – from your working copy, simply stash them: git stash push –include-untracked If you don’t need them anymore, you now can drop that stash: git stash drop If you don’t want to stash changes that you already staged – e.g. … Read more
The closest thing to renaming is deleting and then recreating on the remote. For example: git branch -m master master-old git push remote :master # Delete master git push remote master-old # Create master-old on remote git checkout -b master some-ref # Create a new local master git push remote master # Create master on … Read more
The Short Answer As long as you’re doing a fast-forward merge, then you can simply use git fetch <remote> <sourceBranch>:<destinationBranch> Examples: # Merge local branch foo into local branch master, # without having to checkout master first. # Here `.` means to use the local repository as the “remote”: git fetch . foo:master # Merge … Read more
Support for password authentication was removed. Please use a personal access token instead
A common cause is cloning using the default (HTTPS) instead of SSH. You can correct this by going to your repository, clicking “Clone or download”, then clicking the “Use SSH” button above the URL field and updating the URL of your origin remote like this: git remote set-url origin [email protected]:username/repo.git You can check if you … Read more
For Git 2.6+ (released 28 Sept 2015) The only git config setting which would be of interest is: rebase.autostash (with Git 2.27, Q2 2020, you now also have merge.autostash, see below) When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This means that you … Read more