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When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, Git sets up the branch (specifically the branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge configuration entries) so that git pull will appropriately merge from the remote-tracking branch.
All you have to do is check out the branch you wish to merge into and then run the git merge command: $ git checkout master Switched to branch 'master' $ git merge iss53 Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy. index.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
A branch in Git is simply a lightweight movable pointer to one of these commits. The default branch name in Git is master. As you start making commits, you’re given a master branch that points to the last commit you made. Every time you commit, the master branch pointer moves forward automatically. Note.
git checkout -b|-B <new-branch> [<start-point>] Specifying -b causes a new branch to be created as if git-branch [1] were called and then checked out. In this case you can use the --track or --no-track options, which will be passed to git branch.
The git branch command does more than just create and delete branches. If you run it with no arguments, you get a simple listing of your current branches:
The command git commit -a first looks at your working tree, notices that you have modified hello.c and removed goodbye.c, and performs necessary git add and git rm for you. After staging changes to many files, you can alter the order the changes are recorded in, by giving pathnames to git commit.
Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository (visible using git branch --remotes), and creates and checks out an initial branch that is forked from the cloned repository’s currently active branch.
The git branch command is actually something of a branch management tool. It can list the branches you have, create a new branch, delete branches and rename branches. Most of Git Branching is dedicated to the branch command and it’s used throughout the entire chapter.
More precisely, git pull runs git fetch with the given parameters and then depending on configuration options or command line flags, will call either git rebase or git merge to reconcile diverging branches.
The following description divides the low-level commands into commands that manipulate objects (in the repository, index, and working tree), commands that interrogate and compare objects, and commands that move objects and references between repositories.