I have a local branch master that points to a remote branch origin/regacy (oops, typo!). How do I rename the remote branch to origin/legacy or origin/master? I tried: git remote rename regacy …

The last block of code for this answer is certainly not the most elegant, but this answer deserves some credit. It is orders of magnitude faster for large dictionaries and doesn't use up all of my …

Mar 21, 2012 · I'm currently trying to port a C application to AIX and am getting confused. What are .a and .so files and how are they used when building/running an application?

Jun 7, 2012 · I'd like to create a new master branch from an existing tag. Say I have a tag v1.0. How to create a new branch from this tag?

How do I run a PowerShell script? I have a script named myscript.ps1 I have all the necessary frameworks installed I set that execution policy thing I have followed the instructions on this …

Git clone will clone remote branch into local. Is there any way to clone a specific branch by myself without switching branches on the remote repository?

Given a change that has been committed using commit, and then reverted using revert, what is the best way to then undo that revert? Ideally, this should be done with a new commit, so as to …

Jun 6, 2013 · How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents? The following doesn't work. It seems to display every single file in the system. find / -type f …

Aug 11, 2009 · In modern git (I'm writing this in 2022, with an updated git installation), this has become quite a bit simpler: Run git rm <path-to-submodule>, and commit. This removes the …

I think this is not a duplicate of Git undo last commit as it asks how to delete any commit from a branch. I also think non of the answers actually address this question. They all rewind the last …