Questions tagged [remote-branch]
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In Git, are remote tracking branches required?
Can 2 Git clones push/pull to each other without having remote tracking branches representing the other? I know they're very useful most of the time, but I might occasionally want to pull/push between secondary repos (not my bare server), and I…

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How to compare local branch with remote branch in Mercurial
Can someone show me how to compare a local branch with remote branch to see the all the differences or new changesets added?
I only want to see what's new like hg incoming or hg outgoing. I don't want to compare individual files.
It would be…

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Error in checkout a remote server in Git
I have cloned a remote Git server. but when I want to checkout it with the below code it give me error:
$ git checkout master origin/master
error: pathspec 'origin/master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Here's output of git branch:
$ git…

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Bazaar Explorer hangs when parent branch is unreachable
I created a shared repository on my laptop. In that repository, I created a branch named trunk. Then I created an unbound branch of trunk on my desktop so I could do work on either machine and sync my changes manually.
This works pretty well except…

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Delete unreferenced remote branches
Jii
I have been learning git and how to use remote branches on GitHub.
I had a remote branch origin/other-branch and merged to update the branches, so when I put
git log --oneline --graph --all
I get the following output
* 352a7d7 (HEAD ->…

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How to acces and commit to remote branch on github
I wanted to work on remote github repository from multiple machines, on my laptop it works as intended, however on my PC i can't connect my local branch to remote branch. Maybe they are connected but, when i try to commit message pops up saying that…

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How to merge a branch from one remote to the origin/master
Let's say I have a repo X on GitHub , and I'm interested in the branch DEV. I also have a repo Y on Codeplex.
What I'd like to do is first adding X repo on GitHub as a remote of repo Y; then, I want to be able to fetch the content of X/DEV and merge…

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