Coming from svn, just starting to become familiar with git. When a branch is deleted in git, is it removed from the history? In svn, you can easily recover a branch by reverting the delete operation (reverse merge). Like all deletes in svn, the branch is never really deleted, it’s just removed from the current … Read more
We use SVN at work, but for my personal projects I decided to use Git. So I installed Git yesterday, and I wonder what is the revision number equivalent in Git. Let’s say we work on version 3.0.8 and every bug fix has its own revision number we can use when we talk about this … Read more
I flubbed up my history and want to do some changes to it. Problem is, I have a commit with two unrelated changes, and this commit is surrounded by some other changes in my local (non-pushed) history. I want to split up this commit before I push it out, but most of the guides I’m … Read more
Killswitchcollective.com’s old article, 30 June 2009, has the following inputs and outputs git co master git merge [your_branch] git push upstream A-B-C-D-E A-B-C-D-E-F-G \ —-> \ your branch C-D-E G I am interested how you get the tree like-view of commits in your terminal without using Gitk or Gitx in OS/X. How can you get … Read more
I cloned a git repository of a certain project. Can I turn the files to the initial state and when I review the files go to revision 2, 3, 4 … most recent? I’d like to have an overview of how the project was evolving. 7 s 7 Before executing this command keep in mind … Read more
