Edit the root commit in Git?
As of Git version 1.7.12, you may now use git rebase -i –root Documentation
git-commit
Reset all changes after last commit in git
First, reset any changes This will undo any changes you’ve made to tracked files and restore deleted files: git reset HEAD –hard Second, remove new files This will delete any new files that were added since the last commit: git clean -fd Files that are not tracked due to .gitignore are preserved; they will not …
git: Your branch is ahead by X commits
If you get this message after doing a git pull remote branch, try following it up with a git fetch. (Optionally, run git fetch -p to prune deleted branches from the repo) Fetch seems to update the local representation of the remote branch, which doesn’t necessarily happen when you do a git pull remote branch.
Remove sensitive files and their commits from Git history
For all practical purposes, the first thing you should be worried about is CHANGING YOUR PASSWORDS! It’s not clear from your question whether your git repository is entirely local or whether you have a remote repository elsewhere yet; if it is remote and not secured from others you have a problem. If anyone has cloned …
Pushing empty commits to remote
One use of an empty commit would be to force a build to occur in an environment where builds are triggered whenever new commits are pushed. git commit –allow-empty -m “Trigger Build”
Fix GitLab error: “you are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project”?
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Should I use past or present tense in git commit messages? [closed]
The preference for present-tense, imperative-style commit messages comes from Git itself. From Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the Git repo: Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. “make xyzzy do frotz” instead of “[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz” or “[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz”, as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its …
What is the Sign Off feature in Git for?
Sign-off is a requirement for getting patches into the Linux kernel and a few other projects, but most projects don’t actually use it. It was introduced in the wake of the SCO lawsuit, (and other accusations of copyright infringement from SCO, most of which they never actually took to court), as a Developers Certificate of …
How to fix committing to the wrong Git branch?
If you haven’t yet pushed your changes, you can also do a soft reset: git reset –soft HEAD^ This will revert the commit, but put the committed changes back into your index. Assuming the branches are relatively up-to-date with regard to each other, git will let you do a checkout into the other branch, whereupon …
Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary, especially if it merges an updated upstream into a topic branch
It’s not a Git error message, it’s the editor as git uses your default editor. To solve this: press “i” (i for insert) write your merge message press “esc” (escape) write “:wq” (write & quit) then press enter