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How do I delete a commit from a branch?
How do I delete a commit from my branch history? Should I use git reset --hard HEAD?
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answers
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How to branch from a previous commit
If I have an n number of commits, how can I create a branch from the n-3 commit?
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views
How to undo "git commit --amend" done instead of "git commit"
I accidentally amended my previous commit. The commit should have been separate to keep history of the changes I made to a particular file.
Is there a way to undo that last commit? If I do something ...
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answers
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How can I revert multiple Git commits?
I have a Git repository that looks like this:
A <- B <- C <- D <- HEAD
I want the head of the branch to point to A, i.e., I want B, C, D, and HEAD to disappear and I want head to be ...
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Changing git commit message after push (given that no one pulled from remote)
I have made a git commit and subsequent push. I would like to change the commit message. If I understand correctly, this is not advisable because someone might have pulled from the remote repository ...
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How can one change the timestamp of an old commit in Git?
The answers to How to modify existing, unpushed commits? describe a way to amend previous commit messages that haven't yet been pushed upstream. The new messages inherit the timestamps of the ...
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answers
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How to list all commits that changed a specific file?
Is there a way to list all commits that changed a specific file?
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How can I push a specific commit to a remote, and not previous commits?
I have made several commits on different files, but so far I would like to push to my remote repository only a specific commit.
Is that possible?
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How to amend a commit without changing commit message (reusing the previous one)?
Is there a way to amend a commit without vi (or your $EDITOR) popping up with the option to modify your commit message, but simply reusing the previous message?
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git add only modified changes and ignore untracked files
I ran "git status" and listed below are some files that were modified/or under the heading "changes not staged for commit".
It also listed some untracked files that I want to ignore (I have a "....
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889
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3
answers
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How to commit my current changes to a different branch in Git [duplicate]
Sometimes it happens that I make some changes in my working directory, and I realize that these changes should be committed in a branch different to the current one. This usually happens when I want ...
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How do I create a new Git branch from an old commit? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate / a more recent/less clear question
Branch from a previous commit using Git
I have a Git branch called jzbranch and have an old commit id: a9c146a09505837ec03b.
How do I create ...
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How can I reference a commit in an issue comment on GitHub?
I find a lot of answers on how to reference a GitHub issue in a git comment (using the #xxx notation).
I'd like to reference a commit in my comment, generating a link to the commit details page?
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answers
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views
How to edit log message already committed in Subversion?
Is there a way to edit the log message of a certain revision in Subversion? I accidentally wrote the wrong filename in my commit message which could be confusing later.
I've seen How do I edit an ...
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votes
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answers
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How can I view prior commits with git blame?
Is it possible to see who edited a specific line before the commit reported by git blame, like a history of commits for a given line?
For example, I run the following (on the superb uncrustify ...
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answers
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Find a commit on GitHub given the commit hash
I am fairly new to Github and have come across an amateur-ish problem.
I have been asked to do a code review and have been provided with a commit hash, however I have tried looking in Git if I can ...
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votes
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answers
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Remove specific commit
I was working with a friend on a project, and he edited a bunch of files that shouldn't have been edited. Somehow I merged his work into mine, either when I pulled it, or when I tried to just pick the ...
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votes
21
answers
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GitHub pull request showing commits that are already in target branch
I'm trying to review a pull request on GitHub to a branch that isn't master. The target branch was behind master and the pull request showed commits from master, so I merged master and pushed it to ...
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answers
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Git number of commits per author on all branches
I'd like to get the number of commits per author on all branches. I see that
git shortlog -s -n
Prints a very nice list but it is not counting the commits that are not yet merged from other branches. ...
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How to move certain commits to be based on another branch in git?
The situation:
master is at X
quickfix1 is at X + 2 commits
Such that:
o-o-X (master HEAD)
\
q1a--q1b (quickfix1 HEAD)
Then I started working on quickfix2, but by accident took quickfix1 ...
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422
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10
answers
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Start a Git commit message with a hashmark (#)
Git treats lines starting with # (hash, number sign, octothorpe, pound sign) as comment lines when committing. This is very annoying when working with a ticket tracking system, and trying to write the ...
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votes
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answers
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Git error on commit after merge - fatal: cannot do a partial commit during a merge
I ran a git pull that ended in a conflict. I resolved the conflict and everything is fine now (I used mergetool also).
When I commit the resolved file with git commit file.php -m "message" I get the ...
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answers
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views
Temporarily switch working copy to a specific Git commit
How to switch to specific Git commit without losing all the commits made after it?
I want that local files will be changed, but commits' database will remain intact, only the current position pointer ...
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How can I find the commit in which a given file was added?
Say I have a file foo.js that was committed some time ago. I would like to simply find the commit where this file was first added.
After reading the answers and my own tinkering, this works for me:
...
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git revert back to certain commit [duplicate]
how do i revert all my files on my local copy back to a certain commit?
commit 4a155e5b3b4548f5f8139b5210b9bb477fa549de
Author: John Doe <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jul 21 20:51:38 2011 ...
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How to remove the first commit in git?
I am curious about how to remove the first commit in git.
What is the revision before committing any thing? Does this revision have a name or tag?
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views
Install specific git commit with pip
I'm developing a django app and I'm using pip to manage my requirements. How can I do to install a specific git's commit?
In my case I need to install this commit:
https://github.com/aladagemre/...
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answers
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views
How can I split up a Git commit buried in history?
I flubbed up my history and want to do some changes to it. Problem is, I have a commit with two unrelated changes, and this commit is surrounded by some other changes in my local (non-pushed) history.
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How do you move a commit to the staging area in git?
If you want to move a commit to the staging area - that is uncommit it and move all of the changes which were in it into the staging area (effectively putting the branch in the state that it would ...
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votes
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Error "Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally"
I'm working on a team with a few developers using Git on Bitbucket. We are all working on a dev branch, not pushing to master until a release.
One of the developers committed incorrect code that ...
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votes
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answers
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views
Merging 2 branches together in Git
I've only just started to use Git and think it is wonderful, however I'm a little confused over what the merge command does.
Let us say we have a working project in the branch "A".
I go home ...
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How can I delete the last n commits on GitHub and locally?
I'm trying to delete the last two commits from one of my GitHub repositories. I've tried as suggested here: git push -f origin HEAD^^:master. It seems that it works, as the last two commits are ...
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views
How to commit no change and new message?
How can I make a new commit and create a new message if no changes are made to files?
Is this not possible since the commit's code (SHA ?) will be the same?
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How to remove selected commit log entries from a Git repository while keeping their changes?
I would like to remove selected commit log entries from a linear commit tree, so that the entries do not show in the commit log.
My commit tree looks something like:
R--A--B--C--D--E--HEAD
I would ...
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views
Editing the git commit message in GitHub
Is there any way of online editing the commit message in GitHub.com, after submission?
From the command line, one can do
git commit --amend -m "New commit message"
as correctly suggested in ...
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votes
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See "real" commit date / time in github (hour/day)
Is there a way to see the date of a commit in github, with day/hour precision? Older commits appear in a "human readable" format, such as "2 years ago" instead of showing the actual date.
If it's not ...
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Git commit in terminal opens VIM, but can't get back to terminal
Trying to learn GitHub at the moment and doing this Git essentials tutorial over at nettuts. I'm on the lesson about making commits.
The teacher types git commit and it opens VIM as his editor (I'd ...
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Git: How to edit/reword a merge commit's message?
How do I edit or reword a merge commit's message?
git commit --amend works if it's the last commit made (HEAD), but what if it comes before HEAD?
git rebase -i HEAD~5 doesn't list the merge commits.
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Mercurial: how to amend the last commit?
I'm looking for a counter-part of git commit --amend in Mercurial, i.e. a way to modify the commit which my working copy is linked to. I'm only interested in the last commit, not an arbitrary earlier ...
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How to find commits by a specific user in Git? [duplicate]
Our project uses Git as the version control system and recently I needed to review someone's commits. How can I see a list of commits made by a specific user?
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How to add multiple files to Git at the same time
This will be my first git use. I have added new files ( a lot ) to the folder/project ( git local repository).
I went through online tutorials and forums and see i can do
git commit -a
So I go to the ...
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Combining Multiple Commits Into One Prior To Push
This question pertains not only to how to accomplish this task, but to whether doing so is good or bad practice with Git.
Consider that locally I do most work on the main branch, but I have created a ...
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How to git ignore ipython notebook checkpoints anywhere in repository
This is mostly a git question. I want to commit my ipython notebooks but gitignore the checkpoints.
The repo has multiple folders which each have ipython notebooks, therefore just ignoring a single ...
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GIT commit as different user without email / or only email
I'm trying to commit some changes as a different user, but i do not have a valid email address, following command is not working for me:
git commit --author="john doe" -m "some fix"
fatal: No ...
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git - Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit
I am newbie in git and I am working on git.
I added some files in git :
git add <file1>
git add <file2>
then I wanted to push that for review, but mistakenly I did
git commit
so the ...
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Git commit with no commit message
How can I commit changes without specifying commit message? Why is it required by default?
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Git: add vs push vs commit
What is the difference between git add, push and commit?
Just a little confused coming from SVN, where "update" will 'add' stuff, and commit does a "push" and will 'add' as well
There are all ...
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How do you commit code as a different user?
I want to be able to do this for a script. I'm essentially re-creating the entire version history of some code in Git - it currently uses a different version control system. I need the script to be ...
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Problems with entering Git commit message with Vim
OS: Windows
I write
$ git commit
then
"# Please enter the commit message"
I write some text, like
"Form validation added"
Press Enter and not commited. Then i press Shift+Enter, Ctrl+Enter, Alt+...
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What happens if you don't commit a transaction to a database (say, SQL Server)?
Suppose I have a query:
begin tran
-- some other sql code
And then I forget to commit or roll back.
If another client tries to execute a query, what would happen?
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