A feature branch usually ends up with a few commits nobody will want to read later. Squashing folds them into one new…
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A plain git commit records the contents of the index and nothing else. The index is…
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Commit hashes work fine for Git and badly for people. A tag fixes that by putting…
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Most people meet the word origin by pasting a command from a README, and they never…
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Most people meet version control the hard way, usually through a folder full of files named…
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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 meet git reset right after a commit they wish they hadn’t made. The command…
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git merge takes the commits from one branch and puts them into the branch you have…
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Most people land on GitHub because someone sent them a repository link and said “clone this.”…
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Before you type anything, work out which way the commits need to travel. Pushing sends your…
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Git stopped accepting account passwords over HTTPS a while back, so typing yours at a prompt…
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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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Open the pull request, click Resolve conflicts, edit each marked file and click Commit merge. If…
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Open Settings, go to Account, click Change username, and pick a name nobody else holds. Personal…
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Two commands, git add and git commit -m, build a snapshot in the local repository. A…
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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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Most of the time, unstaging a file in Git is one command: git restore –staged <file>.…
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