At some point, it is very likely that you have cloned somebody's repository. This means that you have an associated remote. The remote is usually called origin because it is where the source originated from. While working with Git and remotes, you will get some benefits from Git. Follow these...

Let's start by creating a few local branches. Step 1 : Use the following command to clone the jgit repository to match: sudo apt install git cd jgit Step 2 : Whenever you start working on a bug fix or a new feature in your project, you should create a...

In this post, we'll be using the jgit repository as our server repository, but we have to make a clone of it to a bare repository so we can push it. You can't push to the checked-out branch on a non-bare repository, as this can overwrite the work area and...

An alias is a nice way to configure long and/or complicated Git commands to represent short useful ones. An alias is simply a configuration entry under the alias section. It is usually configured to --global to apply it everywhere. Step 1 : In this post, we will use the jgit...

This configuration is useful when you get tired of messages such as the following one just because you made a typo on the keyboard: git statis By setting the configuration to help.autocorrect, you can control how Git will behave when you accidentally send a typo to it. By default, the...

By default, Git will perform garbage collection on unreferenced objects and clean reflog for entries that are more than 90 days old. For an object to be referenced, something must point to it; a tree, a commit, a tag, a branch, or some of the internal Git bookkeeping, such as...

By default, when performing git pull, a merge commit will be created if the history of the local branch has diverged from the remote one. However, to avoid all these merge commits, a repository can be configured so that it will default to rebase instead of merging when doing git...

Sometimes, having a global configuration isn't enough. You will also need to trigger the execution of scripts (also known as Git hooks), exclude files, and so on. It is possible to achieve this with the template option set to git init. It can be given as a command-line option to...

we will see how to create a template commit message that will be displayed in the editor when creating a commit. The template is only for the local user and not distributed with the repository in general. Step 1 : we will use the example repository from this post git...

we will look at how we can query the existing configuration and set the configuration values. Step 1 : We'll use jgit again by using the following command: git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit cd jgit Step 2 : To view all the effective configurations for the current Git repository, run the following...