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I have a number projects where the git fork model differences, some are 'centralized' repo while others follow the 'fork' model. Some of the projects have multiple 'peer' forks attached I don't want ...
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I was given access to a GitHub repository that doesn’t belong to me. My goal: I want to clone this repo into my own new GitHub repository and then push it there. I’ve already cloned the repo locally, ...
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I have 2 different Github accounts, one for college and one for personal stuff. I'm trying to push some changes in a new branch to a friend's project repository, to which my personal account has write ...
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So this is fairly similar in nature to this old question regarding obtaining all remotes when cloning a repository. For context, I am required to transfer about 30 projects from an old git forge to a ...
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Here's my directory structure: root | \- GitRepoA \- GitRepoB \- GitRepoC ... \- GitRepoN I'm trying to effectively git pull master or git pull main in each of my git repos. Some of them use master, ...
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How is the following output possible? git remote is still showing 'origin', after it has been removed: $ git remote -v origin $ git remote remove origin error: No such remote: 'origin' I can add ...
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I have a git remote named foobar: [remote "foobar"] url = [email protected]:joeuser/foobar.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/foobar/* but I am also user to calling it foo-...
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I am working with two repos (repo_a and repo_b) which are two forks of the same project. They are both very large in terms of files and history. I need to use a small set of branches from each of them,...
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If git has a bad fetchref configured for a remote -- "bad" meaning that the ref does not exist on the remote -- the remote becomes "broken" and no operations with it will work. ...
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107 views

`guest@abc123 abc123 % git remote -v origin [email protected]:abc123/repo.git (fetch) origin git@github....
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My team moved servers for our Azure DevOps git repository. How can I change the default remote that git status will compare against? I have updated my remote origin to the correct server's url now, ...
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I have two upstream repositories ftp05 and ftp06 that contain diverging git history. However, some files are shared between them. Now I made changes to a file which is the same for both repositories ...
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I executed this command on my perfectly working repository and today I see that my main branch has lost all of its logs and commits I had done. ❯ git log fatal: your current branch 'main' does not ...
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I want to merge a branch into main in a remote repository hosted on GitHub. I don't want to clone the repository locally first. How can I do this please?
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Is there a straightforward way to push a named local branch to a branch of a different name in a remote repository? Currently, I have a complicated script which my students are supposed to run to do ...

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