Category: Git – SVN

Go to the root of the directory with the git clone ans type:\ git config core.fileMode false   // –global flag will make it be the default behavior for the logged in user git config –global core.fileMode false   // Remove your local configuration to make the global configuration take effect git config –unset core.fileModegit
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Keeping Your Fork Up to Date While this isn’t an absolutely necessary step, if you plan on doing anything more than just a tiny quick fix, you’ll want to make sure you keep your fork up to date by tracking the original “upstream” repo that you forked. To do this, you’ll need to add a
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If you want to clone a git repository into a non-empty directory you will get an error: fatal: destination path ‘.’ already exists and is not an empty directory. You can fix this: git init git remote add origin PATH/TO/REPO git fetch git checkout -t origin/master   If you get the following error: fatal: Cannot
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Start by looking at .git/config file in you’re project folder for references to that branch, and removing them. Another way is to prune all stale branches from your local repository. This will delete all local branches that already have been removed from the remote: git remote prune origin –dry-run // If it looks correct git
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Switch to the $id branch: git checkout $id Delete the $id branch: git branch -d $id Create branch $id based on head: git branch $id Create branch $id based on head and switch to it: git checkout -b $id