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How to merge two different git repos into one?
I was given access to a GitHub repository that doesn’t belong to me.
My goal: I want to clone this repo into my own new GitHub repository and then push it there.
I’ve already cloned the repo locally, ...
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Can't switch git accounts when pushin/pulling to 3rd-party repositories
I have 2 different Github accounts, one for college and one for personal stuff.
I'm trying to push some changes in a new branch to a friend's project repository, to which my personal account has write ...
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Can you easily spread Git remote url changes to all developers?
So this is fairly similar in nature to this old question regarding obtaining all remotes when cloning a repository.
For context, I am required to transfer about 30 projects from an old git forge to a ...
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What happened to git pull --all and how do I achieve the same effect?
Here's my directory structure:
root
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\- GitRepoA
\- GitRepoB
\- GitRepoC
...
\- GitRepoN
I'm trying to effectively git pull master or git pull main in each of my git repos. Some of them use master, ...
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`git remote` lists 'origin' after removal
How is the following output possible? git remote is still showing 'origin', after it has been removed:
$ git remote -v
origin
$ git remote remove origin
error: No such remote: 'origin'
I can add ...
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Can I define an alias for a git remote?
I have a git remote named foobar:
[remote "foobar"]
url = [email protected]:joeuser/foobar.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/foobar/*
but I am also user to calling it foo-...
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git partial clone with multiple remotes
I am working with two repos (repo_a and repo_b) which are two forks of the same project. They are both very large in terms of files and history. I need to use a small set of branches from each of them,...
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How to fix "broken" repo with bad remote fetchref
If git has a bad fetchref configured for a remote -- "bad" meaning that the ref does not exist on the remote -- the remote becomes "broken" and no operations with it will work.
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Why does upstream have a blank "=" value in my local git repo and how do I remove it?
`guest@abc123 abc123 % git remote -v
origin [email protected]:abc123/repo.git (fetch)
origin git@github....
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having an error in git while pushing the project on git remote it says "fatal: protocol 'https' is not supported" [duplicate]
i first ran this command which worked perfectly fine
it shows already exist cause i ran the command twice
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/chaudharidhara2781/tatvasoft_internship
error: ...
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Old branches on remote cannot be deleted [duplicate]
I have been extensively looking for this, but none of the online replies worked for me.
I have a git repo, on local I have only the master branch
% git branch
* master
however, a number of old ...
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How to change the remote branch that git status checks against?
My team moved servers for our Azure DevOps git repository.
How can I change the default remote that git status will compare against?
I have updated my remote origin to the correct server's url now, ...
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How to push the same changes (diff) to multiple remotes with diverging history?
I have two upstream repositories ftp05 and ftp06 that contain diverging git history. However, some files are shared between them. Now I made changes to a file which is the same for both repositories ...
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How to handle "fatal: bad object refs/heads/main 2"?
I executed this command on my perfectly working repository and today I see that my main branch has lost all of its logs and commits I had done.
❯ git log
fatal: your current branch 'main' does not ...
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Working with GitHub repository with no local git project [duplicate]
I want to merge a branch into main in a remote repository hosted on GitHub.
I don't want to clone the repository locally first.
How can I do this please?
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