Questions tagged [remote-branch]
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Git tracking branches
I have created a repository in local and pushed all the changes to the github.
Later i have created a new branch("git branch v2") called "v2" and did some modification and pushed that branch to github as well.
Later when i was executing the command…
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How to show connections between local and remote branches in git?
I'd like to add a copy of a remote branch (origin/featureX) to my local repository.
Therefore I generated a local branch featureX and set it to track the given remote branch:
git branch featureX
git branch -u origin/featureX featureX
# Branch…
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GIT: remove remote branches with no local tracking branch
Let's say that git branch -a outputs something like this:
A
B
C
*master
remotes/origin/A
remotes/origin/B
remotes/origin/C
remotes/origin/master
remotes/origin/X
remotes/origin/Y
remotes/origin/Z
In bold are those branches (X, Y, Z) that are in…
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How can I get remote git branches using Node.js?
I'm using this awesome library called Gift to do all of my standard git things (pulling, reading commits, etc). However, I can't seem to get the remote branches. I believe the git branch -r command will show me the branches, but the format is…
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git add remote tracking branch to bare repo
I have a bare repo that was cloned from git.drupal.org.
I have cloned from this bare repo to various different websites.
From each of these, I push a site-specific branch onto the bare repo.
E.g. if I have foo.org and bar.org, then my bare repo…
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Synchronizing local git forked repo branches with changes from remote original
I found a lot of q & a about synchronizing a forked git repository with the original remote repository but none applied to my exact problem.
Let's assume I forked a project with a remote name of upstream, my fork's name is origin. I have a master…
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How to delete the remote Git branch via the Command Palette(Ctrl+Shift+P) in Visual Studio Code?
I want to delete the remote branch in Visual Studio Code but it seems like it's not supported.
GitLens supports Delete Branch (via Terminal) but I want to do it from the Command Palette.
I tried finding the extension but couldn't find one.
Can…
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Delete large number of branches from remote
I have a Git remote that has 1000 branches, and I want to delete all the branches whose name does not start with foo_. Is there an easy way to do that?
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dotfile management for different machines with git branches reasonable?
I set myself up a dotfiles repo, hosted on a remote server and used on different machines. For some things I'd like to have individual configurations, e.g. the environment variables differ between machines.
I thought, it would be nice to have an…
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Doesn't show all remote branchs with git branch -r
when I execute the command:
git branch -r, it's show just:
origin/HEAD -> origin/master
origin/development-elton
origin/master
And when execute the command:
git remote show origin, it's show:
remote origin
Fetch URL:…
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Disconnect local branch from remote one
I have two local branches A and B tracking the same remote branch C. I want to keep all the branches but I want to remove connection A -> C but keep the connection B -> C. how can i do that?
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Identifying a tag belongs to which branch in git
I first did repo sync to a manifest for a branch name myBranch. I then get the tags from
git tag -l
Now I want to know using git that each tag obtained as a result of git tag -l was actually created on which branch. Please note : I do not want…
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SourceTree git "clone from url" gives me fatal error
I tried to add a new repository with the option "clone from url". It start the download but, almost immediately, it stops. I cannot see the old branches, it's like a new one. After some time, gives me this fatal error:
'git log' failed with code…
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What happens if I delete a remote branch that someone else is working on?
I have created a remote branch, that I now want to delete because it is merged back into our integration branch. I do a
git push origin :name_of_branch
to delete the remote branch.
However, unfortunately I was mistaken and one of the other…
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How can I convert all the remote branches in a local git repo into local tracking branches
How can I convert all the remote branches in a local git repo into local tracking branches, without one by one checking each one out.
One reason why you might want to do this (the reason I want to do this) is so that you can take a clone of the…
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