Checkout remote branch using git svn
I have checked out a svn repository using git svn. Now I need to checkout one of the branches and track it. Which is the best way to do it? 1 Answer 1
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git-svn: how do I create a new svn branch via git?
I have a git repository which tracks an svn repository. I cloned it using –stdlayout. I created a new local branch via git checkout -b foobar Now I want this branch to end up in …/branches/foobar in the svn repository. How do I go about that? (snipped lots of investigative text. see question history if … Read more
How do I tell git-svn about a remote branch created after I fetched the repo?
I’m using git-svn to work against my company’s central Subversion repository. We’ve recently created a new feature branch in the central repo. How do I tell Git about it? When I run git branch -r I can only see the branches that existed when I ran fetch against the Subversion repo to initialize my Git … Read more
How can I remove an SSH key?
I currently have an old SSH key uploaded on a server. The problem is I lost my ~/.ssh directory (with the original id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files). Consequently, I want to remove the old SSH key directly on the server and upload a new one. I tried the following command without success: $> ssh-add -D Is … Read more
Ignore modified (but not committed) files in git?
Can I tell git to ignore files that are modified (deleted) but should not be committed? The situation is that I have a subdirectory in the repo which contains stuff I’m not interested in at all, so I deleted it to prevent it showing up in auto-completions and the like (in the IDE). But now, … Read more
How to git-svn clone the last n revisions from a Subversion repository?
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
How to remove origin from git repository
Basic question: How do I disassociate a git repo from the origin from which it was cloned? git branch -a shows: * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master and I want to remove all knowledge of origin, and the associated revisions. Longer question: I want to take an existing subversion repo and make a number of smaller … Read more
Pushing an existing Git repository to SVN
I’ve been doing all my work in Git and pushing to GitHub. I’ve been very happy with both the software and the site, and I have no wish to change my working practices at this point. My PhD adviser is asking all students to keep their work in an SVN repository that’s hosted at the … Read more
See changes to a specific file using git
I know that I can use the git diff command to check the changes, but, as far as I understood, it is directory based. This means it gives all the changes of all files on the current directory. How can I check only the changes in one specific file? Say, I have changed files file_1.rb, … Read more
What’s the significance of the “No newline at end of file” log?
When doing a git diff it says “No newline at end of file”. What’s the significance of the message and what’s it trying to tell us? 13 s 13 It indicates that you do not have a newline (usually ‘\n’, aka CR or CRLF) at the end of file. That is, simply speaking, the last … Read more
