How to copy contents of one branch to other branch?

Assuming you want to overwrite all the contents of InitialPomChanges with what is in develop (i.e. you want the contents of InitialPomChanges to exactly match develop), do the following: git checkout InitialPomChanges git checkout develop . #copies the contents of develop into the working directory git commit -am “Making InitialPomChanges match develop” This will make …

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How to avoid having to do “git branch –setup-upstream”, and instead default to automatically setup remote tracking?

Git v2.37.1 and above If you are using the mentioned version or above you can use this new config entry to automatically setup remote tracking: git config –global push.autoSetupRemote true After that, when you do git push tracking is setup automatically. No need for git push -u origin my_branch A shortcut, which doesn’t depend on …

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Git branch name – case sensitive or insensitive?

Answering just the question in the subject line, without addressing anything about git show-branch (like ElpieKay, I never actually use git show-branch; it seems mainly mis-informative): Git branch names—and tag names, and all other reference names, as Git calls them—were originally intended to be case-sensitive. This all works perfectly on Linux / Unix machines, where …

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Git, error: remote unpack failed: unable to create temporary object directory – By creating new Branch

This error message: error: remote unpack failed: unable to create temporary object directory indicates that the Git repository at the server (not your Git) is out of space, or running into similar server problems,1 or installed incorrectly. That is, given: To: http://git.int.censoredlink/scm/freeb/freebrep.git you will have to log in to the machine that serves HTTP traffic …

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