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error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout

This question is similar to this one, but more specific. I have a project with two branches: staging and beta. I develop on ...

June 2, 2022
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Why does git-rebase give me merge conflicts when all I’m doing is squashing commits?

We have a Git repository with over 400 commits, the first couple dozen of which were a lot of trial-and-error. We want to ...

June 2, 2022
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“Cannot update paths and switch to branch at the same time”

I sometimes use the checkout -b option to create a new branch, check it out at the same time and set up tracking ...

June 1, 2022
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git stash blunder: git stash pop and ended up with merge conflicts

I did a git stash pop and ended up with merge conflicts. I removed the files from the file system and did a ...

May 31, 2022
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How can I reset or revert a file to a specific revision?

I have made some changes to a file which has been committed a few times as part of a group of files, but ...

May 30, 2022
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Git: “Not currently on any branch.” Is there an easy way to get back on a branch, while keeping the changes?

So I’ve done some work in the repository and when I’m about to commit I realize that I’m not currently on any branch. ...

May 24, 2022
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What is the difference between “git branch” and “git checkout -b”?

I used git checkout -b to create a new branch. I think that git branch does the same thing. How do these two ...

May 24, 2022
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Restore file from old commit in git

I have an old commit that I did a few weeks ago. I want to restore only a single file from that commit. ...

May 23, 2022
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Git push error: Unable to unlink old (Permission denied)

In the remote server I have a post-receive hook set up in order to make a git checkout of my repository: #!/bin/sh GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/<website> ...

May 22, 2022
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Retrieve a single file from a repository

What is the most efficient mechanism (in respect to data transferred and disk space used) to get the contents of a single file ...

May 21, 2022
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