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When you want Git to track a file in a repository, you must explicitly add it to the repo, which can become a bit cumbersome if you have many files. Another option would be to add/stage all files to the repo, which is much quicker. In general it is...
Scott Robinson
In the Git version control system you're able to push and pull code from any number of remote repositories. This is beneficial for when you want to pull in updates from someone else's fork of a project, for example. Or you may just want to have a way to link...
In Git, and most other VCS tools, branching is one of the main constructs that really make it useful for software development. These branches are almost like a new copy of your code at the current state, which can then be used to develop new code. For example, whenever you...
One of the nice things about Git is its flexibility, allowing you to perform just about any task on a source tree that you'd need. In this case I'm referring to cleaning up the history of a source tree by squashing commits. When you squash commits, you're combining 2 or...
If you've been using Git for any significant amount of time then you probably already know how to push your commits from a local branch to a remote repository. But, as you may be aware, Git doesn't just track commits, there are other objects/references as well, like tags. These...
While I had initially thought that it's very rare for a remote repository to change location, it actually happens a lot more than I realized. A remote repo may change from one private server to another (like a NAS), from a personal GitHub repo to one in an organization, or...
In order to checkout a branch from a remote repository, you will have to perform two steps. First, you need to fetch the actual branch data, which includes the commits, files, references, etc. Second, you'll want to actually check it out so your working directory contains the branch files. This...
If you merge a branch in to another, and for whatever reason decide you want to undo the merge, there are some ways to do this with Git. The solution to this is simpler if you haven't yet pushed the changes to a remote repo, and if you have then...
When collaborating with colleagues, or even when you're just using an open source library, you'll often need to fetch a branch from a remote repository using Git. The "base case" to fetch a branch is fairly simple, but like with many other Git operations, it can become quite...
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