The –depth 1 option in git clone: Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of … Read more
I have a private repository on Github for a project I’m working on. Until now I had only worked on my home desktop, but I just bought a laptop, and am trying to set it up so that I can work on the project from either computer, and push / pull changes. I added a … Read more
Problem How do you create a shallow copy with git-svn from a Subversion repository, e.g. how do you pull only the last three revisions? The git clone command can get the last n revisions from a Git repository if you use the option –depth, i.e. you get a shallow copy of the repository. Example: git … Read more
From git-clone(1) Manual Page –branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository. I tried git clone –branch <tag_name> <repo_url> But it does not work. It returns: warning: Remote branch 2.13.0 not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead How to use this parameter? 6 Answers 6
How can I clone git repository with specific revision, something like I usually do in Mercurial: hg clone -r 3 /path/to/repository 18 s 18 $ git clone $URL $ cd $PROJECT_NAME $ git reset –hard $SHA1 To again go back to the most recent commit $ git pull To save online (remote) the reverted commit, … Read more
I want to understand the difference between a branch, a fork and a clone in Git? Similarly, what does it mean when I do a git fetch as opposed to a git pull? Also, what does rebase mean in comparison to merge? How can I squash individual commits themselves together? How are they used, why … Read more
The git clone help page has this to say about –mirror: Set up a mirror of the remote repository. This implies –bare. But doesn’t go into detail about how the –mirror clone is different from a –bare clone. 8 s 8 The difference is that when using –mirror, all refs are copied as-is. This means … Read more
I’m doing: git clone ssh://[email protected]/home/user/private/repos/project_hub.git ./ I’m getting: Fatal: destination path ‘.’ already exists and is not an empty directory. I know path . already exists. And I can assure that directory IS empty. (I do ls inside and I see nothing!) What am I missing here in order to clone that project into the … Read more
How can I convert a ‘normal’ Git repository to a bare one? The main difference seems to be: in the normal Git repository, you have a .git folder inside the repository containing all relevant data and all other files making up your working copy in a bare Git repository, there is no working copy and … Read more
I keep hearing people say they’re forking code in Git. Git “fork” sounds suspiciously like Git “clone” plus some (meaningless) psychological willingness to forgo future merges. There is no fork command in Git, right? GitHub makes forks a little more real by stapling correspondence onto it. That is, you press the fork button and later, … Read more
