I was working on my local copy of a GitHub project. After changing a few files, I tried to commit and I got the message This is not a github repository, so I did git init, git add . and committed (After adding the remote origin), and did git push…
I would like to reset m repository to an old commit and start tracking the changes from there. It is like 50 commits ago, so git revert is not an option. What should I do?
P.S. update - I also need to push that commit and become the last commit in…
I feel really stupid right now. I have used a number of version control apps but not git that much. I have read lots of posts, but am more confused than ever as many of the (apparently correct) answers use the command prompt and assumptions that I…
I have forked my repo from some other repo and commited some changes.Now I want to update my repo with respect to the original repo and delete the commits I have made.I am first trying to revert it to the point where I have forked the repo then I…
I am using the trash git client on my desktop for cleaning up in the dead branches.
I accidentally deleted a branch that is published that one of my group members is working on.
The git client gave me no warning just deleted the branch with a single…
I am trying to do this the easy way and do less coding. I have the following commits in git
A->B->C->D
I want to basically remove commit C and keep commit D - and I am struggling to find a way how
I tried
git checkout -b myfix B
git cherry-pick…
I am fairly new to git and haven't ever had to deal with much more than resolving some simple conflicts up to this point. I have a project and a team member and I were working on it. I pushed a bunch of my changes(394344b) while he was working on an…
I have couple of submodules in my project and I inadvertently made some changes to the modules.
Though I did not explicitly check in the changes, I see the subproject commits when I diff the repository.
(Using stash)
When I do a git status on my…
I have a git repository and the scenario is like this.
Past: rev 102
I made changes and pushed it to the repository, so
Present: rev 103
Now, i want to undo all the changes and go back to rev 102 so that when users checkout/update the repository, it…
I've recently found a strange behaviour about GitHub repository.
When I choose file and then its history (because I want to see all changes/commits to this file) there is only one - last commit: beans/AuthenticationBean.java.
But when I check all…
Consider the following situation.
There is a project X with some active upstream development. We are working on a fork of project X for our own internal purposes. Since we do not have write access to the Git repo of project X, we created our own…
I did something really stupid using revert and I don't know how to fix it properly.
I'll try to explain clearly.
I wanted to add foo, bar and baz in a project repository.
For some reasons (because I'm an idiot), I did the following mess
(where…
There is a commit, pushed etc in the history of our repo. I have the SHA, and I would like to run the equivalent of git revert /one/folder/* THESHAID, but git revert doesn't look like it has the ability to change only a specific folder.
Is there a…
I got a dangling commit that is not in the reflog (or I use it wrong) and won't go away with git gc. Here is what I mean:
% git fsck
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
Checking objects: 100% (5425/5425), done.
dangling commit…
I'm relatively new to git, and I think I broke my master. Hopefully, someone can help me untangle it.
I have my master on GitHub, and local master and tracking branch on my dev system. I also have the master on my QA system.
On my dev system, I…
