git-pull

I have a local repository I'm working on and its remote is hosted on GitHub. I recently created a branch and started working on it, making several commits and now wish to push the branch to GitHub and be able to pull it to another cloned repository. What needs to be done to accomplish this? If this is not possible using GitHub, I'd be happy to know how to do it normally. git push origin <local-branch-name>:<remote-branch-name> Substitute for <local-branch-name> and <remote-branch-name> . They may be same or different, as you wish. J-16 SDiZ As you have set up the remotes already, the command

I would like to know if my local repo is up to date (and if not, ideally, I would like to see the changes). How could I check this without doing git fetch or git pull ? Try git fetch --dry-run The manual ( git help fetch ) says: --dry-run Show what would be done, without making any changes. git remote show origin Result: HEAD branch: master Remote branch: master tracked Local branch configured for 'git pull': master merges with remote master Local ref configured for 'git push': master pushes to master (local out of date) <------- you can use git status -uno to check if your local branch is up

I have set up some remote tracking branches in git, but I never seem to be able to merge them into the local branch once I have updated them with 'git fetch'. For example, suppose I have remote branch called 'an-other-branch'. I set that up locally as a tracking branch using git branch --track an-other-branch origin/an-other-branch So far, so good. But if that branch gets updated (usually by me moving machine and commiting from that machine), and I want to update it on the original machine, I'm running into trouble with fetch/merge: git fetch origin an-other-branch git merge origin/an-other

I'm writing a tool to backup all my repositories from Bitbucket (which supports Git and Mercurial) to my local machine. It already works for Mercurial, where I do it like this: create a new empty repository without a working copy on the local machine (the same like a bare Git repository) pull from the remote repository into the local empty repository Now I'm trying to do the same with Git. I already found out that I can't directly pull to a bare repository and that I should use fetch instead. So I tried it: C:\test>git fetch https://github.com/SamSaffron/dapper-dot-net.git remote: Counting

So here's the situation: $ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by [x] commits. # There are several questions about this on SO already, but none seem to specifically address the type of scenario I have. This answer to one of the questions comes closest, but doesn't go into detail. I'll just quote it verbatim: If you get this message after doing a "git pull remote branch", try following it up with a "git fetch". Fetch seems to update the local representation of the remote branch, which doesn't necessarily happen when you do a "git pull remote branch". That tip

I am using Git and when I tried to pull a newer development branch with my current branch using XCode's source control menu I received this error message: The operation could not be performed because "ProjectName" has one or more tree conflicts. How do I resolve these tree conflicts? Thanks GayleDDS There is a conflict in the project file you need to pull using the command line or a GUI tool like SourceTree (Free) and manually resolve the conflict in a text editor or diff tool. See also: How to use Git properly with XCode? I was in trouble with this problem. It often happens when I remove or

As far as I see, git pull someRemote master tries to merge the remote branch into mine. Is there a way to say "Completely discard my stuff, just make me another clone of the remote" using git pull? I still want to keep my own repository and keep it's history, but I want to have a 1:1 copy of someRemote's master branch after that command. To clarify, imagine there are 2 repositories, RM and MY. Numbers are commits, and this assumes only one branch (master). RM1 --- RM2 --- RM3 --- RM4 --- RM5 --- RM6 ... | | +-> MY1 --- MY2 --- MY3 -+-> MY4 --- MY5 --- MY6 ... So I start my own repository as a