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I need to monitor several repositories and, whenever someone merges any branch into any other branch, email the person who performed the merge along with the list of files that had conflicts.
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I work on a couple of Git repositories with two branches work and main. Changes are worked on in work and eventually cherry-picked into main, when approved. At some point several commits ago, a very ...
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I'm migrating a large historical archive into an Azure DevOps Git repository using the REST Each push contains a single commit whose changes array holds multiple file add/edit operations, with file ...
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I can see in current git docs that ff-only is now default behavior for git pull. What version introduced this change? As I recall, git would just happily merge in more complicated scenarios before. I ...
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I'm setting up a new git repo to test things out before transferring over a large project from SVN. I've got nearly everything working except for the .gitignore. I currently have it so the only ...
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In a repo-construction script I'm writing, I have a need to check out a branch so that I get that branch's index file, but I have no need for the working files. In my situation, populating the ...
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I am doing some low-level repo construction for which git commit-tree appears to be the right tool for the job. (Specifically, I am constructing merge commits "by hand", with merged working ...
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I had to manipulate submodules quite recently and I faced issues where the HEAD of my submodule was not pointing where it should. According the man page, a git checkout does not update the HEAD of a ...
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I git cherry-pick and have a conflict. I resolve the conflict and stage the changes. I git cherry-pick --continue and successfully commit. How do I undo ONLY the git cherry-pick --continue to get back ...
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The documentation for --shallow-exclude says: Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag. So given a repository like: ...
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I'm seeing a strange issue with GitHub's commit viewer. On the GitHub commit page, the left sidebar correctly lists the changed files, but the diff panel only renders a few files (sometimes 2–3) or is ...
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I want to use git fetch with automatic tag following in a script regardless the user config setting. See https://linux.die.net/man/1/git-fetch : When <refspec> stores the fetched result in ...
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The Git documentation mentions a way of configuring a Git server with the Smart HTTP protocol and the Apache HTTP server, it relies on a CGI script provided with Git called git-http-backend on the ...
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Mr. Old School here not used to slang language in 'technical' books like Pro Git. What exactly is a snapshot in the context of Git? Sounds like a cell phone picture. Pls pardon my ignorance.
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I was trying to download Microsoft/Windows-driver-samples. It errors out on .inf files that are marked as UTF16 in .gitattributes It tries to encode the text into UTF16 from UTF8 as if it were UTF8. ...

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