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
The specific command you ran only works on linux because: sudo is a linux command (or *nix command in general) apt-get is a linux command (specifically ubuntu/debian command) install is a argument to apt-get command npm is a package So the line: sudo apt-get install npm means: Hey package-manager(apt-get), install the package (npm) and do … Read more
Each commit in Git is identified by a hash. As it happens, you push a first commit with a specific hash. Then you change its hash by distorting the commit (with the git commit –amend command). So, when you push it again to the server, he don’t understand what you want to do, hence the … Read more
You can google for the library or a often-used function in that library and hope to find sourcecode of programs using it. Git/Github doesn’t really help you in doing so.
From https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cherry-pick -m parent-number –mainline parent-number Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change relative to the specified parent. I guess you are … Read more
Have a look at the following post: How do I download from gitorious? In your case this sould be something like git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
The rockspec code has a built-in, tacit requirement to use git protocol. From behind a firewall, one must use HTTPS. luarocks has no proxy environment variable to configure this from the command line, so the installation fails. Fortunately, there is a way to reconfigure git: sudo git config –global url.”https://”.insteadOf git:// This forces all git … Read more
There is a very straightforward tutorial on how to set up your own Symfony project: http://symfony.com/download I will not copy the tutorial, just mention two points: To install and upgrade Symfony, you will have to use Composer. (Details in the tutorial.) Symfony code is actually hosted on Github, but those are only some of the … Read more
Just start typing the name of the branch you want to create and it will let you open it. As seen here: