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Checkout a branch or file to the current working tree in a Git repo.

git checkout is used to update files in the current working tree to a specific version in the index or specified branch.

To restore a file to the version in the index:

git checkout -- <filename>

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unable to use capistrano -- prompted for password i am not sure of

ruby on my development machine:ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i486-linux] capistrano on my development machine: Capistrano v2.5.5 OS on development machine: ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition server is Amazon web service instance running on…
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After git add directory is empty

I am very new to git, I am using Ubuntu terminal to perform git actions. After creating a git repository I executed the below commands mkdir project cd project git init then I copied all the files to project directory and executed git add -A…
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GIT Checkout - Switch Submodules

I have a project with a master and staging branch. The project has a submodule which also had a master and staging branch. My .gitmodules file has referenced the branch correctly so e.g. my project on branch master has the following [submodule…
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How is fast-forward implemented in Git so that two branches preserve?

In libgit2 headers I read that after fetch, if fast forward is signalized to be available during analysis, then what's needed is simple checkout of the fetched tip (and altering of heads/). It seemed logical, however I wonder, how can the…
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git_checkout_tree() with conflicts, can it write the conflicting blocks into files?

Currently I tried following options: checkout_options.checkout_strategy = GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE | GIT_CHECKOUT_ALLOW_CONFLICTS | GIT_CHECKOUT_CONFLICT_STYLE_MERGE; checkout_options.checkout_strategy = GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE…
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Git reset or checkout specific file using Grunt

I have a grunt process that creates a deployment package, and it involves making changes to files that need to be present for deployment, but not checked into source. I'm looking for an automated way to either reset individual files or checkout…
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Working files not populatings into remote server after I push from local Git repository

I'm brand new to Git and I was following this tutorial to set up a Git workflow on my local machine and remotely. I am the sole developer on this project. The project uses the Laravel PHP framework. I want the application files outside of the public…
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Checkout a new master avoiding commited changes in local master (in GIT)

I cannot find the right answer maybe because I don't know how to make the right question, but I will try to explain myself: To make a new feature I forgot to make a new branch and I was working and commiting (not pushing) to my local master branch…
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Is the full path required to unstage a file in GIT if am currenlty under a sub-directory?

Repo: mergetest $pwd /gitvobs/mergetest/apple $git status On branch br1 Changed but not updated: (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory) **modified: inside** $git…
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Checkout with auto merge

Sometimes when I use git checkout master the changes made in my previous branch are automatically merged into master: cat >> some_file.txt change from branch1 git checkout master This outputs that the changes made to some_file.txt are merged into…
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How to checkout only part of file from another local branch

Let's say I have two local branches master and slave. Did some work on master and committed changes. Now I want include only part of file from my master to slave. I do know that how to include whole file. git checkout `slave` git checkout `master`…
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git checkout -f causing all files to be modified

I just started learning git a few days ago and I started by setting up an example repo. After performing a successful checkout using git checkout -f, when I run "git status" in the local repo, it comes back telling me all files have been…
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switch between branches, preserving the stash?

Sometimes I could use an equivalent of git stash && git checkout $branch && git stash pop that would remember what was the state of the tree for a given branch and only restore the one that was stashed for this particular branch. How could easily…
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Git only checkout certain directories

How can I setup my git project to only clone/checkout certain directories. In my project I have the following directories /dira /dirb /dirc In some cases I would only like to checkout dira, in some cases I would only like to checkout dirb, and in…
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How to get the SHA of commit from diff output?

How can I get the SHA of the commit from diff output? For example I like to diff a binary file, the output of git show COMMIT is: diff --git a/0_prospektusok/FAR_feltetdiszek/feltetdisz_prospektus.xls b/0_prosp index 9993010..707c169 100644 Binary…
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