You are collaborating on a project with a group of people, and you have defined a naming convention for git branches. You created a new branch, pushed the changes to the remote repository, and realized that your branch name was incorrect. Luckily, Git allows you to rename the branch very easily using the git branch -m command. This …
There are various scenario where you want to change the remote’s URL in your git repository. You can fire git remote set-url command to change/ update existing remote repository URL. The git remote set-url command takes two arguments: An existing remote name. For example, origin or upstream are two common choices. A new URL for the remote. For example: If you’re updating to …
From web developers to app developers, Git is useful to anyone who writes code or track changes to files. So what’s it all about and why should you start using it? What is Git? Git is the most commonly used version control system. Git tracks the changes you make to files, so you have a record …
In Git, and most other VCS tools, branching is one of the main constructs that really make it useful for software development. These branches are almost like a new copy of your code at the current state, which can then be used to develop new code. For example, whenever you need to create a new feature, fix …