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Forking vs. Branching in GitHub

I’d like to know more about the advantages and disadvantages of forking a github project vs. creating a branch of a github project. ...

May 14, 2022
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How can I copy the content of a branch to a new local branch?

I have worked on a local branch and also pushed the changes to remote. I want to revert the changes on that branch ...

May 10, 2022
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In git, is there a simple way of introducing an unrelated branch to a repository?

While helping a friend with a git problem today, I had to introduce a branch that needed to be totally separate from the ...

May 10, 2022
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git: Switch branch and ignore any changes without committing

I was working on a git branch and was ready to commit my changes, so I made a commit with a useful commit ...

May 10, 2022
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Your configuration specifies to merge with the from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.?

I am getting this error for pull: Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref ‘refs/heads/feature/Sprint4/ABC-123-Branch’ from the remote, but no such ref ...

May 9, 2022
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Renaming a branch in GitHub

I just renamed my local branch using git branch -m oldname newname but this only renames the local version of the branch. How ...

May 9, 2022
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How can I search Git branches for a file or directory?

In Git, how could I search for a file or directory by path across a number of branches? I’ve written something in a ...

May 9, 2022
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Creating a new empty branch for a new project

We are using a git repository to store our project. We have our branches departing from the original branch. But now we want ...

May 8, 2022
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How to determine when a Git branch was created?

Is there a way to determine when a Git branch was created? I have a branch in my repo and and I don’t ...

May 8, 2022
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What to do with branch after merge

I had two branches: master and branch1. I just merged branch1 back into master and I’m done with that branch. Should I delete ...

May 7, 2022
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