Pushing an existing Git repository to Github only sends about half the commits?

Question

I have a local Git repository I\'ve been developing under for a few days: it has eighteen commits so far. Tonight, I created a private Github repository I was hoping to push

Answer 1

From Git 1.7.3 onwards, you can do this with one simple command:

git checkout -B master

The -b switch means “create branch here before checking it out” and -B is the unconditional version of that, “even if the branch already exists – in that case, move it here before checking it out”.

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A very simple approach for fixing this sort of problem is to just delete the master branch and recreate it. After all, branches in git are merely names for commits and the master branch is nothing special.

So assuming that the current commit is the one you want master to be, you simply do

git branch -D master

to delete the existing master branch, then do

git checkout -b master

to a) create a new branch called master that points to the current commit and b) update HEAD to point to the master branch. After that, HEAD will be attached to master and therefore master will move forward whenever you commit.