I just accidentally merged to a branch that I had 40+ local changes on - so now my changes and the merge are together, which I definitely do not want, with a lot of the files having edit & merge changes. I want to completely revert out the merge, is there a way to do this? If not, I'm in trouble.
I haven't checked anything in, I just only want to keep my local changes that I made.
If you merge to a branch via pull request in Azure Devops, then you can revert the completed pull request directly.
In Target branch, select the branch where you want to undo the pull request changes.
In Topic branch name, select a new branch where the reverted changes are created, then select Revert.
Select Create pull request to merge the newly created branch in a second pull request to complete the revert. For details ,please refer to this document.
If I ignore something, you could attach detailed steps or flow for this issue , this would be much easier for me to understand and reply.
I agree with Leo BL. You can try to copy your current project folder into temporary folder. Then checkout the merge source branch and compare it with temporary folder by some diff/merge tool. However, that maybe difficult to cut your changes if they were in the same files with the merge operation.
Just a quick hint: Basically, this is a git question. So maybe you should consider giving it the git tag aswell, so you can reach a greater audience.
Regarding your question: What means local change? Is the stuff not committed at all? What does git status show?
Assuming the changes are not committed, you could use git stash. I recommend this SO question:
Cancel git merge but keep local changes
I would try it this way:
1. Backup the directory (so you have a backup if something goes wrong)
2. Stash your changes
3. Revert the merge
4. Load the stashed changes
—> You should be fine
sorry but you are in trouble. After the merge the files are replaced
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I'm fairly new to using EGit and Github, and want to resolve something. A few days ago I was trying to revert to a previous commit of my Java Spring Boot App because I was unhappy with my project edits I'd made that day. At this time I had one "master" branch with a bunch of different commits. To revert to a previous commit, I was either incorrectly suggested or I incorrectly tried to "checkout" this commit, and mistakenly created a new branch while doing so. So now I have two branches, where the latest one has all the updated code. Is there any way to merge the 2 branches, keeping all the code and everything the same? I just want there to be 1 master branch so that I and my co-developers can see all the commits in chronological order with ease, and not be confused by the fact that there's 2 branches. Thanks and sorry for my inexperience with this!
Two scenarios here
1. You want master branch but you dont want recent commit. you want to replace it with previous
Solution
A. perform pull operation on your project now you have all the latest file
B. select file which you want to replace with previous commit.right click on file and select replace with -->commit-->choose commit you want to replace from list
C.perform commit and push
D. repeat same procedure for each file.
2.You want only master branch with latest Commit and want to delete another branch
Solution.
A. perform pull operation on your project now you have all the latest file
B.Go to repository window-->branches-->local branch-->select branch you want to delete and push the changes
I'm new to github and have been working on a group project for school. Recently it turned out we were missing some stuff and nothing was organized (every file was just uploaded into the main directory) so I removed everything using a command in the github shell. Then I proceeded to make files and organize all the code and re-upload and store everything in there.
However, when I did this, I had to keep committing every time I made a new folder and stored a bunch of files in it. I would like to keep the changes made during those commits (because I created folders and re-uploaded the stuff), but I want to remove those commits from the history because they are cluttering up the project.
Is this possible, and if so can you please walk me through the steps. Also I'm new to github so I don't know much.
Here is a picture of the ones I want to remove from my history because they are cluttering up the screen (see red marks):
Thanks :)
EDIT: PLEASE NOTE: I don't want to revert the changes, I just want all those history to be removed because they are cluttering up the commit history.
You should use:
git rebase -i HEAD~14
To rebase and squash your unwanted commits. Just use p to mark the last commit and use f to mark the unwanted commits for squashing it with the previous commits. This will remove it from commit log keeping the changes.
More info: https://git-scm.com/book/gr/v2/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B4%CF%8E%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-Git-Rebasing
This question pertains to my workflow using github. My colleague sent me a pull request and kept advancing the branch he was working in with new commits? I want to pull the commits related to the pull request, but the pull request now has the commits too. I searched for solutions and kept being led to the "rebase" command. Regrettably, that command is too complicated for me, plus I use tortoiseSVN as my interface to github. I had some solutions using revert, but they were all un-elegant and there had to be something easy. Also the last time I tried a revert, I had some conflicts with commits that no longer existed because of the revert.
My colleague got a response from a github "ask a human". I am reporting the solution here to help other users.
Navigate to the branch with the work to be pulled.
Navigate to the commit history for the branch and identify the point in that history that you want to pull into the master.
Click on the button on the right marked "<>" == "Browse the repository at this point in the history".
Click on the branch pull down menu and create a new branch. This will create a new branch at that point in the history that you want to pull into the master.
Create and execute a pull request to merge that branch into the master.
Too easy. I don't understand how I didn't run across an example of this workflow. I hope I save someone else the time and headaches that I spent.
I forked a repo from GitHub and make a bunch of changes. Then I found one of my modification in one file can be a patch to an issue of the original repo, but the author don't want to merge my other modifications, so I don't want to send a pull request directly. And I think forking it again and just modify that file to make a patch and then send pull request seems not so elegant. Are there any "standard" way to do that?
In my opinion, you should make a new branch with the same root, then use cherry-pick to add every commit you made except those who are not accepted by the author.
Then send a pull request on this branch.
Moreover, if you want to regroup all your modifications into one simple commit, you may use a squash rebase on a local branch before pushing it online.
Write down the SHA-1 hash of the desired commit. Switch back to the original project's master branch, create a new branch off of it and cherry-pick that one commit onto the new branch.
You can then push the new branch to GitHub and send a PR with its changes.
If you have modified multiple files within one commit, you'll have to rewrite the commit somehow.
I am looking forward to merge my code which I developed in a branch of SVN to the trunk. I am using Eclipse and I have been using Team->Commit to commit my updates to the SVN. But I haven't done a merge before. Please help me with this.
First of all make sure you are up to date. Update your working copy of the target branch, ie. where you are merging into. In this example we're working on the trunk of "core" and we want to grab the changes that have happened in the maintenance branch and merge them.
Resolve any conflicts. There should be no conflicts at this stage between the working copy and the repository.
Select the SVN merge option on the working copy. In Eclipse this is going to be found under the "Team" menu and called "Merge Branch".
SVN: Merging in Eclipse
Change the From URL to the specific branch you want to be merged into your working copy. In this example we're looking for the p400 maintenance branch (./core/branches/p400).
Change the From Revision to the last revision that was merged into the target branch. Essentially you don't want to keep merging the whole branch history, you just want to include those changes since the last time you merged. There is no easy way to determine the last merge point at this time in Subversion. You have to review your message log and look for the last commit that talks about merging. If you are disciplined about the commit messages you use for merging this should be easy (see below). Make a note of what that revision is -- you'll need this later when you commit your changes.
SVN: Merge with Eclipse
Change the To Revision to the latest (i.e. head). Make a note of what that revision is -- you'll need this later when you commit your changes.
Click Merge and wait. Depending on how big the differences are this may be quick or Eclipse my just fall over. If you have such an enormous change that you can't get it done in Eclipse you may need to make the range of revisions you are merging smaller. Or you may even have to skip certain revisions and do them manually if they are massive. We've had this problem from time to time when updating large third-party libraries. The vast majority of the time you will be fine.
Review changes and resolve conflicts. Once the merge is complete, look through the changes made to your working copy and make sure you address any conflicts you find.
Once all the changes have been resolved in the target working copy, check them in with a single commit. The reason you're not doing lots of commits is that these are changes that should have been documented in the branch from which you merged. The commit message needs to be in a specific format that details the merge and is easy to find in the future. We use the following format, but you can use anything that works for you -- as long as you stick to it.
Merging [source] to [target]; [repository]. Merge rev [start]:[end]
Enjoy!
In eclipse we have an option to merge. Right click the project , you will see "Team" option and on clicking it you will see merge option. There are three different options you can see in the merge.
To successfully merge the changes from the branch to the trunk, we need to switch the local workspace to the trunk (but make sure all the changes are committed to the branch before that). Once we do that we can use merge option and select "2 URLs" option. I put url for trunk as url 1 and the branch I wanted to merge as url 2. I could see all the incoming changes I selected "OK". All the changes are in my local now (at this point my workspace is linked to the trunk). Then I committed my changes to the trunk and hence merge from branch to the trunk was successful.
I would like to add for Point 8 .Review changes and resolve conflicts. ---
When working on conflicts manually- when you do copy from right to left on chunks of code - Be careful
Sometimes chunk of code gets added, sometimes it properly replaces the chunk.
Make sure there is no duplicate chunk of code.
Also, this is helpful-- What is the proper way to do a Subversion merge in Eclipse?