When you did a git-pull, modifications from the remote branch were merged into your local branch. The automatically generated commit signifies that. Merging could have resulted in conflicts, which would then need to be resolved manually. In your particular case, this did not happen and git could take care of everything.
Actually, I think I like my comment enough to post it as an answer! When you push, git creates a pack of all the necessary objects and uploads that to the remote. This means we’re looking for a way to predict that pack size. Since the packs are compressed, that makes it very difficult to … Read more
Add a new remote (say, other) in your own repo. Pull other/<branch> changes into your local branch (say, add-other-changes). Push to your own forked repo (origin/add-other-changes). Now, when’re you done with add-other-changes branch, create a Pull request & merge it with origin/master. Pull other repo’s changes into your own repo: # go into your own … Read more
You can use aliases to shorten the command. Use it like this: git config –global alias.fpush “push –force origin” Now to push your branch just type: git fpush feature-mongodb-support Or you can even hardcode the branch name into the command: git alias fpush “push –force origin feature-mongodb-support” and use only git fpush to push your … Read more
Increase the global Git buffer size to the largest individual file size: git config –global http.postBuffer 157286400 Or just for your repo: cd your_repo git config http.postBuffer 157286400
git push can push all branches or a single one dependent on this configuration: Push all branches git config –global push.default matching It will push all the branches to the remote branch and would merge them. If you don’t want to push all branches, you can push the current branch if you fully specify its … Read more
See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git#deploying-code $ git push heroku yourbranch:master
To do this you use a refspec, as explained in the git push documentation. For example: git push origin local_branch_name:remote_branch_name
All those “another another” in the original question, the answer and lots of comments are so confusing (which is a perfect example of why it is important to name your things right in the first place), I can’t help helping (pun not intended) to write yet another answer as below. Q: Is there a way … Read more
This error message: error: remote unpack failed: unable to create temporary object directory indicates that the Git repository at the server (not your Git) is out of space, or running into similar server problems,1 or installed incorrectly. That is, given: To: http://git.int.censoredlink/scm/freeb/freebrep.git you will have to log in to the machine that serves HTTP traffic … Read more