git-commit

I'm looking in the commit history using gitk and git log and I'm trying to see how a specific commit arrived in a certain branch. I can see the commits in the history, so I know they are there. What I want to understand is how they got merged (they were supposed to remain on their own branch). This is a very large project and there are hundreds of commits between the commit in question and the current state of the branch, so I cannot clearly decipher through the limited DAG in gitk , and the commit gets masked in other branches and merges and commit messages. To do this, I have been trying:

Some time ago I set up my .gitignore file to not track a folder my_folder with: my_folder/ Now I want to track only a given file inside said folder, named my_file.md . After making .gitignore look like this: my_folder/ !my_folder/my_file.md and checking: git status the file does not appear as a change to be committed. What am I doing wrong? Add I tried changing my .gitignore file to: my_folder/* !my_folder/my_file.md as advised but the file is still not showing up as a change to commit after a git status . Do I need to reset something? Add 2 Attempting to add the file with git add my_folder/my

I need the last commit date in git. This means the latest update date in my program. I used the command : $ git log -1 but this command will give me the date from the local repository. Rather I need date from remote repository. I tried some commands as follow. git log -n 1 origin/Sprint-6. git rev-parse --verify HEAD love The following command will be helpful: git log -1 --format=%cd This will print the latest change date for one file. The -1 shows one log entry (the most recent), and --format=%cd shows the commit date. See the documentation for git-log for a full description of the options.

I used git for the first time and I set my user name and user mail. The commands I used are below: git config --global user.email "bob@example.com" git config user.email "bob@example.com" git config --global user.name "bob" git config user.name "bob" When I run git commit --author "bob" , I got an error fatal: No existing author found with 'bob' . How can I set user name and email? meagar You should stop using --author each time you commit, and instead configure an author with git config . Once you've done so, you can type git commit and the author will be pulled from your .gitconfig file. If

I'm trying just git commit and Git is giving this message: hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... /c/Users/AGT/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code: line 28: /Code.exe: No such file or directory error: There was a problem with the editor 'code --wait'. Please supply the message using either -m or -F option. I'm using, or trying it, VS Code as default and I got this same message with it opened or closed. Commits done through VS Code or by command git commit -m "Initial commit" works fine. I tried change config path with: git config --global core.editor "code --wait" git

We are working on tickets, and when we use the ticket number in the git commit message on the first line, then the ticket is updated with the commit message. To make things simple we always work on a branch with the commit number. Now I'd like to be presented with a commit message where the ticket number would already be filled in. It must be possible, because the branch is already in the commit template, but in comments which are removed by git. I have scoured the docs and the 'net a couple of times, but I must be looking for the wrong words, because I cannot find it. Can anyone help? Walter