You can always just revert the changes from a single commit by doing: git revert <commit-id> note that this creates a new commit, undoing just those changes E.g. git log –oneline d806fc9 two 18cdfa2 bye 62c332e hello c7811ee initial Say I want to revert changes in commit 18cdfa2: git revert 18cdfa2 We now have: git …
Figuring out if something is a merge is easy. That’s all commits with more than one parent. To check for that, you can do, for example $ git cat-file -p $commit_id If there’s more than one `parent’ line in the output, you found a merge. For reverts it’s not as easy. Generally reverts are just …
This should only be the case if you’re amending an already-pushed commit. Generally you should never do that as you’re then modifying published history. In your case however, you should be able to get away with push -f, which will overwrite the remote commit with your amended revision.
:cq! This will force an error to Vim and it will not save any changes. Link to Vim manual. You may want to use cq without ! if you want vim to exit with an error and without saving.
Have you tried git add . This recurses into sub-directories, whereas I don’t think * does. See here
Every change in GIT (and in the most of modern VCS’s) has an author and a committer. The Log shows an author because we respect authorship even if the author of changes doesn’t have access to the repo or isn’t able to commit code by himself. Asterisk on the author’s name in the Log means …
Your origin repository is ahead of your local repository. You’ll need to pull down changes from the origin repository as follows before you can push. This can be executed between your commit and push. git pull origin development development refers to the branch you want to pull from. If you want to pull from master …
Here’s an example of a commit object file, decompressed. commit 238tree 0de83a78334c64250b18b5191f6cbd6b97e77f84 parent 6270c56bec8b3cf7468b5dd94168ac410eca1e98 author Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> 1659644787 -0700 committer Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> 1659644787 -0700 feature: I did something cool The commit ID is a SHA-1 hash of that. $ openssl zlib -d < .git/objects/81/2e8c33de3f934cb70dfe711a5354edfd4e8172 | sha1sum 812e8c33de3f934cb70dfe711a5354edfd4e8172 – This includes… Full …
For filenames only: git show –name-only abc To see a summary of what happened to them: git show –name-status abc
That screen is just a text editor and those options at the bottom, represent commands, tipically its the ctrl key + the letter for the command. To make the commit you should write your commit message, then press ctrl+o to write your message, and then ctrl+x to exit that screen. To avoid that screen you …