Commit hashes work fine for Git and badly for people. A tag fixes that by putting a readable name on one commit,…
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Git keeps a project’s full change history as commits in a content-addressed object database, and that…
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Most people meet the word origin by pasting a command from a README, and they never…
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Git will let a team do almost anything with its branches. It has no opinion on…
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Most of the confusion around git commit comes from assuming it saves your files. It saves…
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Most people who run git prune by hand are surprised by how little it does. It…
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git merge takes the commits from one branch and puts them into the branch you have…
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Putting an API key in a repository takes about four seconds, and getting it back out…
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Before you type anything, work out which way the commits need to travel. Pushing sends your…
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Reverting to a previous commit in GitHub mostly comes down to git revert or git reset,…
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GitHub’s web interface can’t delete a commit. The closest thing is a Revert button on merged…
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To host a site on GitHub you need a repository with an entry file such as…
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Open Settings, go to Account, click Change username, and pick a name nobody else holds. Personal…
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You merge in Git from the branch that should receive the changes. Check out the target…
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The green merge button doesn’t look the same on every repository. Some show one option, some…
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Run git branch -m new-name and the local branch has a new name. The remote needs…
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Deleting a branch in GitHub takes the trash icon on the repository’s branches page or one…
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Pulling from GitHub comes down to git pull origin main, run inside a local clone. It…
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Run git switch -c feature-login and Git creates the branch and moves you onto it. For…
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Installing Git comes down to one installer or one command, depending on what you run. Windows…
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Older Copilot tutorials have a problem. They talk about premium request limits, and those are gone.…
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