This will unstage all files you might have staged with git add: git reset This will revert all local uncommitted changes (should be executed in repo root): git checkout . You can also revert uncommitted changes only to particular file or directory: git checkout [some_dir|file.txt] Yet another way to revert all uncommitted changes (longer to … Read more
The git submodule update command actually tells Git that you want your submodules to each check out the commit already specified in the index of the superproject. If you want to update your submodules to the latest commit available from their remote, you will need to do this directly in the submodules. So in summary: … Read more
Here are some branch naming conventions that I use and the reasons for them Branch naming conventions Use grouping tokens (words) at the beginning of your branch names. Define and use short lead tokens to differentiate branches in a way that is meaningful to your workflow. Use slashes to separate parts of your branch names. … Read more
Use git bundle. Create a bundle: git bundle create update.bundle HEAD~5..HEAD On the receiving side use git fetch or git pull: git pull update.bundle master
This is not limited to submodules, as noted here: The registration of the submodule will be reported to stderr, as that is consistent with the rest of progress reporting within Git. This helps us in a later patch when we want to reuse the init_submodule function in update_clone whose stdout will be piped to shell … Read more
There’s a new git-remote-hg that provides native support: Bridge support in Git for Mercurial and Bazaar Just copy git-remote-hg to your $PATH, make it executable, and that’s it, no dependencies (other than Mercurial): git clone hg::https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/ You should be able to push and pull from it as if it was a native Git repository. When … Read more
Git is a revision control system, a tool to manage your source code history. GitHub is a hosting service for Git repositories. So they are not the same thing: Git is the tool, GitHub is the service for projects that use Git. To get your code to GitHub, have a look here.
To turn any extended object reference into a hash, use git-rev-parse: git rev-parse HEAD or git rev-parse –verify HEAD To retrieve the short hash: git rev-parse –short HEAD To turn references (e.g. branches and tags) into hashes, use git show-ref and git for-each-ref.
First, clone a remote Git repository and cd into it: $ git clone git://example.com/myproject $ cd myproject Next, look at the local branches in your repository: $ git branch * master But there are other branches hiding in your repository! See these using the -a flag: $ git branch -a * master remotes/origin/HEAD remotes/origin/master remotes/origin/v1.0-stable … Read more
git-clean – Remove untracked files from the working tree Synopsis git clean [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [–] <path>… Description Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory. Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the … Read more