I created a branch to do some work on, tried to merge another branch into it, and immediately ran into an insurmountable merge conflict. Clearly the thing to do was abandon the branch and start over. ...

Explanation: I make a heavy use of Git staging area to keep track of the changes that I'm already sure of while the working directory is often a mess of untested solutions, TODOs and a code that is ...

I tried removing manually the following submodule from my local repository: components/CtrlFuelSuppHtr Removed it from these three places: .git folder, components folder, and deleted it on .gitmodules....

I'm trying to checkout a specific commit ID along with all its submodules. git checkout --recurse-submodules 7fdb9221d958acda289904951fe6d37873e8cfbf But I'm getting the following error: fatal: not a ...

Suppose that I am running a script inside a Git repository and want to access the index file directly. How can I get the path to the index file, in a way that also respects e.g. worktrees?

I run git gc in a repository and get a fatal error: Enumerating objects: 2382, done. Counting objects: 100% (2382/2382), done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads Compressing objects: 100% (747/...

Let's create a small local repository: git init echo foo > foo git add foo git commit -m foo git branch bar echo foo >> foo git commit -a -m 'another foo' If we do this now, we replace our ...

I'm initializing a repo in a Google Drive folder which contains a gsheet file. When I index the folder this error happens: git add . error: read error while indexing file.gsheet: Invalid argument ...

After running the interactive staging git command $ git add -i and choosing one of the options for example "update", then I don't know how to get back to the root level to choose another ...

I'm looking for a way to include specific parts of stashes in stage. I'm using TIG frontend, so the method can involve some low level offset, etc. calculation. However currently I don't have any idea ...

My use case is that I have a very large GIT repository created by uidA:gidA with all its files and git index as uidA:gidA That I have snapshoted/frozen using netapp file system technology aka froze ...

I've come across this statement in git documentation: Checking out a file is similar to using git reset with a file path, except it updates the working directory instead of the stage Link:https://www....

When there's a conflict, git status shows this: Unmerged paths: (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage) (use "git add <file>..." to mark resolution) ...

I'm trying to use git update-index --again to re-add modified files to the index. This works fine, but only for files/directories in the current directory. Is this expected behavior for this command ...

I want to base my new project off of an existing git repo. My intention is not to extend the current project but to start a new project with different aims. Specifically I want to remove the original ...