    $ git remote add theirusername git@github.com:theirusername/reponame.git
    $ git fetch theirusername
    $ git checkout -b mynamefortheirbranch theirusername/theirbranch

Note that there are multiple &quot;correct&quot; URIs you can use for the remote when you add it in the first step.

- `git@github.com:theirusername/reponame.git` is an SSH-based URI
- `https://github.com/theirusername/reponame.git` is an HTTP URI

Which one you prefer to use will depend on your situation. GitHub has a help article explaining the difference and helping you choose: [Which remote URL should I use?](https://help.github.com/articles/which-remote-url-should-i-use/)

[amalloy&#39;s suggestion](https://stackoverflow.com/a/9153737) didn&#39;t work for me. This did:

    git remote add theirusername https://github.com/theirusername/reponame
    git fetch theirusername
    git checkout -b mynamefortheirbranch theirusername/theirbranch

Resources:

- https://git-scm.com/book/ch2-5.html
- http://crunchify.com/how-to-fork-github-repository-create-pull-request-and-merge/

Looking at a Get-WebFile script over on PoshCode, http://poshcode.org/3226, I noticed this strange-to-me contraption:

    $URL_Format_Error = [string]&quot;...&quot;
    Write-Error $URL_Format_Error
    return

What is the reason for this as opposed to the following?

    $URL_Format_Error = [string]&quot;...&quot;
    Throw $URL_Format_Error

Or even better:

    $URL_Format_Error = New-Object System.FormatException &quot;...&quot;
    Throw $URL_Format_Error

As I understand, you should use Write-Error for non-terminating errors, and Throw for terminating errors, so it seems to me that you should not use Write-Error followed by Return. Is there a difference?



When should I use Write-Error vs. Throw? Terminating vs. non-terminating errors

Is there a way to change how fast the tooltip from an element&#39;s &quot;title&quot; attribute? I&#39;d like it if the tooltip appeared immediately, but it seems to take a few seconds to appear.

Change how fast &quot;title&quot; attribute&#39;s tooltip appears

I&#39;ve forked from a repo on GitHub. I want to get the code from a branch on another user&#39;s fork.  

Must I clone this user&#39;s whole repo to a separate local repo or can I do something like `git checkout link_to_the_other_users_branch`?

How do I fetch a branch on someone else&#39;s fork on GitHub?

<p>I've forked from a repo on GitHub. I want to get the code from a branch on another user's fork.</p>
<p>Must I clone this user's whole repo to a separate local repo or can I do something like <code>git checkout link_to_the_other_users_branch</code>?</p>


I have a private server running git 1.7
When I 

    git init 

a folder it doesn&#39;t create a master branch.
Cause when i do: 

    git branch 

it doesn&#39;t list anything.
When I  do:

    git --bare init


it creates the files.
When I type 

    git branch master 

it says:

    fatal: Not a valid object name: &#39;master&#39;.


fatal: Not a valid object name: &#39;master&#39;

I have created a white-list for text files only.

    *
    !*.txt

Now, I have an untracked text file in a sub-directory - `sub/dir/file.txt`, and this is NOT shown (it is ignored). Text files in the root directory are shown, however.

Why is that, and how do I fix it?


Whitelisting and subdirectories in Git

I am using Windows and before committing, Git wants me to enter a text message and a new text window appears. 

![screenshot][1]

How can I exit from this? 

I am trying to learn Git. So, a little help will be highly appreciated.


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/DSfuw.png

How do I exit from the text window in Git?

I was just trying to commit changes to the Git master. From what I have read, it seems that the idea is to delete the lock file. The message says:

&gt; make sure no other Git processes are running and remove the file manually

Perhaps someone knows, which file to remove and how to remove?

Git SVN error: a Git process crashed in the repository earlier

We are moving our (huge) project to git and we are thinking about using submodules. Our plan is to have three different heads in the superproject:

&gt; release, stable, latest

The project leads will handle the release and stable branches. They will move the submodules as required.

The issue is the &quot;latest&quot; head. We would like the superproject &quot;latest&quot; head to track the master branches of all the submodules (automatically). And also it would be great if it would show the history of all commits to the submodule. 

I have looked at gitslave, but it is not quite what we want. Any suggestions?

git submodule tracking latest

I want to change my account&#39;s user name on GitHub, but I can&#39;t find how to do it. Is this possible at all? To clarify, I&#39;m not talking about the user.name parameter in a git repository, but the username of the actual GitHub account.

Change GitHub Account username

How do I create a ToC or a sidebar menu in a GitHub Wiki?

I saw some mentions of it and gollum the backend seems to support it, but how do I do it in a current GitHub project?

It should best be based on the headers I have in the page automatically.

These links all mention it, but do not show how to do it:

* https://gist.github.com/379469 - some JavaScript hack
* https://github.com/blog/774-git-powered-wikis-improved - GitHub mentioning it:

    &quot;GitHub Wikis have a little-documented ability for footers and sidebars, something which some of
    our git-based Wiki authors are familiar with. The new Wiki editor gives you limited web-based
    editing of the footers and sidebars you have on your site. &quot;


ToC or Sidebar in GitHub Wiki

What is the difference between `origin` and `upstream` on [GitHub][1]?

When a `git branch -a` command is executed, some branches it displays have a prefix of `origin` (`remotes/origin/..`) while others have a prefix of `upstream` (`remotes/upstream/..`).

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub


What is the difference between origin and upstream on GitHub?

Here&#39;s a Github repository of mine: https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs

There&#39;s a `gh-pages` branch to hold the project documentation, which is basically the project website: https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs/tree/gh-pages

This branch setups the documentation site at http://n1k0.github.com/casperjs/ — hurray.

In the meanwhile, I&#39;ve bough the `casperjs.org` domain to get this website available through it, so I put a `CNAME` file as [recommended in the docs](http://pages.github.com/#custom_domains): https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs/blob/gh-pages/CNAME — in their example, the operation is supposed to *create redirects from www.example.com and charlie.github.com to example.com*…

While the website now points to http://casperjs.org/, there&#39;s no 301 redirect from http://n1k0.github.com/casperjs/ (the old site url) to the new domain name.

Any idea how to setup such a redirect, if it&#39;s even possible? Is it a bug? If it is, where should I open an issue?


301 redirect for site hosted at github?

&gt; **Possible Duplicate:**  
&gt; [git - removing a file from source control (but not from the source)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/936249/git-removing-a-file-from-source-control-but-not-from-the-source)  

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I have a `.classpath` file which is currently in GIT repository.

After I pulled from remove repository(`git pull origin master`). How can I remove this file from GIT control, I mean `NOT to delete` this file from my computer **but** remove it from GIT version control. (Because this file is not needed for version control).

**P.S.**

I tried `git rm &lt;path-to&gt;/.classpath` , but then my whole project complains about wrong class path, why git rm delete my file instead of remove from version control ???

remove a file from GIT control

I&#39;m trying to push a new local branch `product-0.2` to remote where there is already a tag with the same name (but the branch itself does not exist)

    git push -v --tags --set-upstream origin product-0.2:product-0.2 
    Pushing to https://****@github.com/mycompany/product.git
    error: src refspec product-0.2 matches more than one.
    error: failed to push some refs to &#39;https://****@github.com/mycompany/product.git&#39;

Same with:

    git push origin product-0.2:/refs/heads/product-0.2 

Although the other way around it works, e.g. create a branch `product-0.1`, commit on it then apply a tag `product-0.1`.

Some people work around this by removing the conflicting tag locally, then push the branch, then retrieve the remote tag, but it seems cumbersome and error prone.

How can I create my branch with minimal fuss?

Thanks for your input

git push local branch with same name as remote tag

My colleague and I are working on the same repository. We&#39;ve branched it into two branches, each technically for different projects, but they have similarities, so we&#39;ll sometimes want to commit back to the *`master` from the `branch`.

However, I have the `branch`. How can my colleague pull that branch specifically?

A `git clone` of the repository does not seem to create the branches locally for him, though I can see them live on unfuddle after a push on my end.

Also, when I originally made the branch, I did `-b checkout`. Does that make much difference?

    $ git branch -r
    origin/HEAD -&gt; origin/master
    origin/daves_branch
    origin/discover
    origin/master

    $ git fetch origin discover
    $ git checkout discover

These are the commands I ran. But it definitely is not working.

**I want to be able to check out that branch and then push and commit back just the branches changes from various collaborators or workstations**.


Git fetch remote branch

I got back on an old project and I ran the nice `git status` to figure out what was going on and I noticed way too many branches! I want to do some housekeeping before starting to work on this again but I&#39;m not sure which branch comes from which..

E.G. Does &quot;branchA&quot; derive from &quot;develop&quot;? Does &quot;branchB&quot; derive from &quot;master&quot; or &quot;branchA&quot;??

How can I answer the sample questions above?

Where did I branch from?

Does anybody know the difference between these two commands to switch and track a remote branch?

    git checkout -b branch origin/branch
    git checkout --track origin/branch

I think both keep track of the remote branch so I can push my changes to the branch on origin, right?

Are there any practical differences?

Difference between git checkout --track origin/branch and git checkout -b branch origin/branch

I have a public repository on GitHub. I want to replicate/copy it and work on a new project based on this repository, but I don&#39;t want to affect how it is now. I tried forking it using the GitHub UI but it didn&#39;t do anything.

How do you fork your own repository on GitHub?

Is there a way to know who has forked my repository on GitHub? I can see the number of forks, but I&#39;d like to know who forked my repository and what kind of changes they made to it.

I know they can send me a pull request if they&#39;re interested in contributing back to my repository, but is there some other way for me to find out who forked my repository?

How can I tell who forked my repository on GitHub?

I&#39;ve previously forked jockm/vert.x and sent him a pull request. Now I want to fork vert-x/vert.x (the upstream of jockm/vert.x) and send them a different pull request. But when I click the Fork button, unsuprisingly I end up in my tjcrowder/vert.x fork of jockm/vert.x instead. Is it possible to fork both vert-x/vert.x and jockm/vert.x simultaneously such that I can send each pull requests as appropriate?

I fear the answer may be the same as for [this question about the converse situation](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8290678/how-do-you-fork-a-repo-whose-upstream-youve-already-forked) (&quot;there&#39;s no GitHub way, but you can add a remote repo&quot;) but I&#39;m hoping otherwise&amp;nbsp;&amp;mdash; not least because I don&#39;t see how the answer there would allow me to send pull requests to the new remote.

How can I fork the original repo when I&#39;ve already forked a different fork

How do I create and/or send a pull request to another repository hosted on GitHub?

How to do a GitHub pull request

This is my first time forking a GitHub project, and I&#39;m not too competent with CocoaPods either, so please bear with me.

Basically, I forked a project on GitHub using the following in my `Podfile`:

    pod &#39;REActivityViewController&#39;, &#39;~&gt; 1.6.7&#39;, :git =&gt; &#39;https://github.com/&lt;username&gt;/REActivityViewController.git&#39;

I then made some changes to the fork, and of course when I did a `pod install` to install another pod it reinstalled the original `REActivityViewController` and erased my changes.

I&#39;m realizing I need to push my changes to my fork before another `pod install`, but how do I know it is the fork being installed, considering that this is a repo installed by CocoaPods? I looked in the `REActivityViewController` folder installed under the `Pods` folder and there aren&#39;t any git files. 

Do I need to work on my fork outside of my project and then use CocoaPods to install the changes? That&#39;s too cumbersome of a workflow. 

Or do I need to do something with submodules?

CocoaPods and GitHub forks

`git pull --help` says:

&gt; In its default mode, `git pull` is shorthand for `git fetch` followed by `git merge FETCH_HEAD`.

What is this `FETCH_HEAD` and what is actually merged during `git pull`?

What does FETCH_HEAD in Git mean?

I didn&#39;t want to lose some information after a `git pull`, so I did a `git fetch` before. Where can I read the new modifications after a `git fetch`? I went to the `FETCH_HEAD` file, but there was nothing more than a big number.

Where to find changes due to `git fetch`

I have cloned a repository, after which somebody else has created a new branch, which I&#39;d like to start working on.  I read the manual, and it seems dead straight easy.  Strangely it&#39;s not working, and all the posts I&#39;ve found suggest I&#39;m doing the right thing.  So I&#39;ll subject myself to the lambasting, because there *must* be something obviously wrong with this:

The correct action *seems* to be 

    git fetch
    git branch -a
    * master
      remotes/origin/HEAD --&gt; origin/master
      remotes/origin/master
    git checkout -b dev-gml origin/dev-gml

At this point there is a problem, for some reason after `git fetch` I can&#39;t see the dev-gml remote branch.  Why not?  If I clone the repository freshly, it&#39;s there, so certainly the remote branch exists:

    $ mkdir ../gitest
    $ cd ../gitest
    $ git clone https://github.com/example/proj.git
    Cloning into proj...
    remote: Counting objects: 1155, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (383/383), done.
    remote: Total 1155 (delta 741), reused 1155 (delta 741)
    Receiving objects: 100% (1155/1155), 477.22 KiB | 877 KiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (741/741), done.
    $ cd projdir
    $ git branch -a
    * master
      remotes/origin/HEAD -&gt; origin/master
      remotes/origin/dev-gml
      remotes/origin/master

I&#39;ve tried `git update`, `git pull`, `git fetch --all`, `git pretty-please` in all possible permutations...


fetch in git doesn&#39;t get all branches

I&#39;ve read from various sources that it&#39;s usually a better idea to fetch *then* merge rather than simply pull as it allows for finer control.  That said, I&#39;ve yet to find actually how to do it.  Case in point:

There was a small change made to some of the code in one of my GitHub repository&#39;s master branch.  I was able to fetch it, but I don&#39;t know how to actually merge the differences in with *my* local master branch.  `git branch` lists all of the local branches I have, but nothing indicating anything to merge to.

So, is it just something like `git merge master` or `git merge origin/master`?  What am I missing?

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How do I fetch a branch on someone else's fork on GitHub?

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Change how fast "title" attribute's tooltip appears

When should I use Write-Error vs. Throw? Terminating vs. non-terminating errors

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