Tag Archives: GitHub

GitHub – refresh the git cache.

Git starts tracking repository files and respecting the patterns set in the .gitignore file after you run the git add command. If you later set in the .gitignore file, you want Git to start tracking a file you previously selected to be ignored. Use these commands to refresh the git cache and apply the .gitignore… Read More »

Bash script for GitHub to fix bad commit branch.

One mistake is to have changed in the [master] branch instead of [mymain]. This can be fixed with this bash script:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
# check the branch that you committed to by accident, in this case, is master
git checkout master
 
# reset the branch back one commit
git reset --soft HEAD^
 
# use stash to record the current state of the working directory
git stash
 
# checkout the branch it should be in, in this case, is mymain
git checkout mymain
 
# apply the stash
git stash apply
 
# commit the changes
git commit -am "main commit"
 
# then push the changes to our main branch
git push origin mymain
 
# checkout the original branch, in this case, is master
git checkout master
 
# the last step is to force push the commit deletion to the original branch.
git push --force origin master

Hope this help’s !!