Notes about Git

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Manuals

# first make sure we are on the main branch
git checkout master
# create a local branch that is called mynewbranch
git branch mynewbranch
# switch to that branch
git checkout mynewbranch
# create the branch also on the remote repository
git push ssh://..../openpetraorg/openpetraorg/ mynewbranch:refs/heads/mynewbranch
# change config so that future git push will go into correct remote branch
git config branch.mynewbranch.remote ssh://..../openpetraorg/openpetraorg
git config branch.mynewbranch.merge refs/heads/mynewbranch
# push changes in local branch to remote branch
git push

# make your changes in the branch, commit to branch
git commit -a
# push branch to remote branch
git push
# switch to master
git checkout master
# merge from branch
git merge mynewbranch
# push to master
git push
# switch to branch again
git checkout mynewbranch

TortoiseGit

This works fine on Windows, although it is still work in progress...

It requires "Git on Windows" http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/; be careful: use the official git installer from that site, eg. Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090608.exe, not the fullinstaller or other packages.

Git Bash

  • You need to add each changed file before you commit. Otherwise that file will not be part of the next commit.
  • If you added too many files by accident, and you want to lose them completely: (use this carefully with -f) git rm . -r
    • even better: to unstage: git reset HEAD <file>...
  • undo all local changes: git checkout -f
  • to revert a single file: use git checkout filename (see http://norbauer.com/notebooks/code/notes/git-revert-reset-a-single-file)
  • to ignore eg. *.bak files, create a file .gitignore and add the files; eg see OpenPetra/csharp/.gitignore