All the previous answers are valid, but something that I don't think is mentioned is that once you add a file from that directory into the repository, you can't ignore that directory/subdirectory …

git reset --soft HEAD~3 && git commit --edit -m"$(git log --format=%B --reverse HEAD..HEAD@{1})" Both of those methods squash the last three commits into a single new …

Apr 20, 2012 · I have some .nupkg files from a C# book that I would like to install to Visual Studio. How can I install them? Here is what I see in the Add Library Package Reference window …

I have the following commit history: HEAD HEAD~ HEAD~2 HEAD~3 git commit --amend modifies the current HEAD commit. But how do I modify HEAD~3?

Oct 6, 2008 · If I wish to simply rename a column (not change its type or constraints, just its name) in an SQL database using SQL, how do I do that? Or is it not possible? This is for any …

I think you need to push a revert commit. So pull from github again, including the commit you want to revert, then use git revert and push the result. If you don't care about other people's clones …

Feb 16, 2009 · I've recently become interested in algorithms and have begun exploring them by writing a naive implementation and then optimizing it in various ways. I'm already familiar with …

The following blog post seems to give a very good example on how to handle merge conflict with Git that should get you going in the right direction. Handling and Avoiding Conflicts in Git

I'm following the instructions of someone whose repository I cloned to my machine. I want to use the make command as part of setting up the code environment, but I'm using Windows. I …

For all unstaged files in current working directory use: git restore . For a specific file use: git restore path/to/file/to/revert That together with git switch replaces the overloaded git checkout …