You can simply check out a new branch, and then commit:

    git checkout -b my_new_branch
    git commit

Checking out the new branch will not discard your changes.

I have made a series of commits in Git and I realise now that I forgot to set my user name and user email properties correctly (new machine).  I have not yet pushed these commits to my repository, so how can I correct these commits before I do so (only the 3 latest commits on the master branch)?

I have been looking at `git reset` and `git commit -C &lt;id&gt; --reset-author`, but I don&#39;t think I&#39;m on the right track.

How to amend several commits in Git to change author

I have two classes, `class ClassOne { }` and `class ClassTwo {}`. I am getting a string which can be either `&quot;One&quot;` or `&quot;Two&quot;`.

Instead of using a long `switch` statement such as:

    switch ($str) {
        case &quot;One&quot;:
            return new ClassOne();
        case &quot;Two&quot;:
            return new ClassTwo();
    }

Is there a way I can create an instance using a string, i.e. `new Class(&quot;Class&quot; . $str);`?

Creating PHP class instance with a string

I&#39;ve been editing some modules on the master branch but I haven&#39;t committed them. I&#39;m now thinking that these changes should really be on an experimental branch and not the master branch.

How can I get these edits into an experimental branch? Copy them to some temp location, create the branch, and then copy them back in?

And how do I configure things so that when I do a git push from the new experimental branch it will it go into a branch of the same name in my GitHub repo?

Put current changes in a new Git branch

I've been editing some modules on the master branch but I haven't committed them. I'm now thinking that these changes should really be on an experimental branch and not the master branch.
How can I get these edits into an experimental branch? Copy them to some temp location, create the branch, and then copy them back in?
And how do I configure things so that when I do a git push from the new experimental branch it will it go into a branch of the same name in my GitHub repo?

When `git commit` open the message editor is shows a brief status, something like this:


    # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
    # with &#39;#&#39; will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
    # On branch master
    # Your branch is ahead of &#39;origin/master&#39; by 26 commits.
    #
    # Changes to be committed:
    #   (use &quot;git reset HEAD &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to unstage)
    #
    #	modified:   Showcase/src/com/gigantt/BorderArea.mxml
    #	modified:   Showcase/src/com/gigantt/Client.mxml
    #	modified:   Showcase/src/com/gigantt/GraphItem.mxml
    #

How can I tweak git to show also the diff to be committed?
I&#39;m aware that it may be a long diff, but still.. so useful.




git: Show index diff in commit message as comment

I have a repo on GitHub. Recently I have discovered GitHub&#39;s pages and I want to use them.  
I would like to create this new branch and then, when I need to, either commit on `master` branch or on `gh-pages` branch.  

How can I do this? Do I have to create another folder inside my repo?

git branch: gh-pages

Is there any way to annotate a branch?  It would be nice to be able to do something like:
&lt;pre&gt;
$ git notes add branch-name -m &#39;This branch is for whatever&#39;
&lt;/pre&gt;
but that of course is not terribly helpful, since the note applies to the current head of the branch rather than the branch itself. 

An easy workaround is to drop a README.branch-name in the repository, but that seems clumsy.   Slightly more elegant is to have an orphaned branch containing nothing but README.branch-names.  I&#39;m looking for a way to record what the purpose of the branch is other than just putting it in the commit message for the &quot;first&quot; commit of the branch.  I put &quot;first&quot; in quotes because it&#39;s not always clear what is meant by that, which is the reason it is inconvenient to put the discussion in a commit message.  It&#39;s often difficult to find the commit in which such a message is recorded.

How do you annotate a branch?

I have Git configured so that when I run `git push`, it pushes changes to my GitHub repo. Until now I have only had a master branch.

However, I have now created a local branch and committed to it using: 

    git checkout -b my_new_branch
    git commit

What I would like to do now is push my changes on this branch to GitHub. Do I just do a git push?

When I first set it up I did run:

    git config push.default current


Pushing a local branch up to GitHub

If there is a repository that I only have `git://` access to (and would usually just push+pull), is there a way to rename branches in that repository in the same way that I would do locally with `git branch -m`?


Renaming branches remotely in Git

Consider this scenario:

 1. Developer A does a commit: **#n**
 2. Dev. B does commit **#n+1**
 3. Dev. A does commit **#n+2**
 4. and commit **#n+3**

and then discovers that in his commit #n+2 he introduced a defect.

How can dev. A rollback his last 2 commits and continue developing on commit **#n+1**?

Tried `git reset --hard HEAD~2`[*][1], but it&#39;s coming back to dev A&#39;s commit **#n**.

  [1]: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset

How to rollback the two previous commits?

I have a branch of a public repository and I am trying to update my branch with the current commits from the original repository:

    $ git fetch &lt;remote&gt;
    remote: Counting objects: 24, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
    remote: Total 20 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0)
    Unpacking objects: 100% (20/20), done.
    From git://github.com/path_to/repo
      9b70165..22127d0  master     -&gt; $/master
    $ git rebase &lt;remote&gt;
    fatal: Needed a single revision
    invalid upstream &lt;remote&gt;

The `&lt;remote&gt;` is in place of my remote name and is not actually my remote name. The documentation on this error seems to be a bit loose.


git rebase fatal: Needed a single revision

I would like to know how I could clone only one branch instead of cloning the whole Git repository.

Clone only one branch

I am trying to install a Python package from a private GitHub repository. For a public repository, I can issue the following command which works fine:

    pip install git+git://github.com/django/django.git

However, if I try this for a private repository:

    pip install git+git://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git

I get the following output:

    Downloading/unpacking git+git://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git
    Cloning Git repository git://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git to /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-VRsIoo-build
    Complete output from command /usr/local/bin/git clone git://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-VRsIoo-build:
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

    Cloning into /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-VRsIoo-build...

    ----------------------------------------
    Command /usr/local/bin/git clone git://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-VRsIoo-build failed with error code 128

I guess this is because I am trying to access a private repository without providing any authentication. I therefore tried to use Git + `ssh` hoping that pip would use my SSH public key to authenticate:

    pip install git+ssh://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git

This gives the following output:

    Downloading/unpacking git+ssh://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git
    Cloning Git repository ssh://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git to /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-DQB8s4-build
    Complete output from command /usr/local/bin/git clone ssh://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-DQB8s4-build:
    Cloning into /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-DQB8s4-build...

    Permission denied (publickey).

    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

    ----------------------------------------
    Command /usr/local/bin/git clone ssh://github.com/echweb/echweb-utils.git /var/folders/cB/cB85g9P7HM4jcPn7nrvWRU+++TI/-Tmp-/pip-DQB8s4-build failed with error code 128

Is what I am trying to achieve even possible? If so, how can I do it?




Is it possible to use pip to install a package from a private GitHub repository?

If I fork a project that&#39;s hosted on github. Do I fork all the branches? How do I know which branch my fork is based on? In other words which branch will be downloaded to my PC?



difference between fork and branch on github

Our git repo is on a Linux server; I can be on the master branch or create a new branch that I can go inside and use.

Our git repo disk is mounted on AIX box to build (I can see git directory in the AIX box that allows me to build)

In the AIX box how I can see that I am using master or inside a particular branch. What changes inside .git that drives which branch I am on?

How to find which git branch I am on when my disk is mounted on other server

Let&#39;s say I had a branch named `coolbranch` in my repository.

Now, I decided to delete it (both remotely and locally) with:

    git push origin :coolbranch
    git branch -D coolbranch

Great!
Now the branch is really deleted.

But when I run

    git branch -a

I still get:

    remotes/origin/coolbranch

Something to notice, is that when I clone a new repository, everything is fine and `git branch -a` doesn&#39;t show the branch.

I want to know - is there a way to delete the branch from the `branch -a` list without cloning a new instance?




Git remote branch deleted, but still it appears in &#39;branch -a&#39;

I am using the following command to find out if a _local_ git branch with `branch-name` exists in my repository. Is this correct? Is there a better way?

Please note that I am doing this inside a script. For this reason I&#39;d like to [use plumbing commands][2] if possible. 

&lt;!-- language: lang-sh --&gt;

    git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/heads/&lt;branch-name&gt;
    # $? == 0 means local branch with &lt;branch-name&gt; exists. 

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28776049/140185
  [2]: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/#_low_level_commands_plumbing

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