Is there a way in GitHub to list all commits that affects a subdirectory (i.e. anyfile or directory in its hierarchy), without having to check out the entire repo?
Just to clarify, you are not looking for the latest change, but all changes made to a folder in a branch. Because latest change is always visible on the grayish bar:
All changes made to the folder can be checked by clicking the History button right above the area I have circled with red. That ends up at this page: https://github.com/jonasblunck/ccm/commits/master/installation which is filtered for that folder. Compare it with https://github.com/jonasblunck/ccm/commits/master that contains all commits to master.
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I have a lot of stuff that I want to add to github so I have the desktop version to make local changes. I add everything I have and before I can push it I have to commit to master, problem is I have 1100 changes and I can only commit one at a time if more than one is selected with pretty much any combination of different files but the button remains greyed out if I have more than 1 file selected.
Recently I have installed Source Tree in my windows machine. How can I use the source tree for commit, merge of code to central repository?? And also how can I switch the branches ?? Can any one kindly provide me the links on how to overcome this??
Hi I'm also relatively new but I can give you basic help.
To switch to another branch use "Checkout". Just click on your branch and then on the button "checkout" at the top.
UPDATE 12.01.2016:
The bold line is the current branch.
You can also just double click a branch to use checkout.
Your first answer I think depends on the repository you use (like github or bitbucket).
Maybe the "Show hosted repository"-Button can help you (Left panel, bottom, right button = database with cog)
And here some helpful links:
Easy Git Guide
Git-flow - Git branching model
Tips on branching with sourcetree
Go to the log view (to be able to go here go to View -> log view).
Double click on the line with the branch label stating that branch. Automatically, it will switch branch. (A prompt will dropdown and say switching branch.)
If you have two or more branches on the same line, it will ask you via prompt which branch you want to switch. Choose the specific branch from the dropdown and click ok.
To determine which branch you are now on, look at the side bar, under BRANCHES, you are in the branch that is in BOLD LETTERS.
Sometimes it is impossible to click on correct branch in history view. Find branch you want in left panel, under remote and double click it.
I have a repository with some dangling commits:
o (master) commit 3
o commit 2
o
| o (tag: danglings) dangling commit 2
| o dangling commit 1
|/
o commit 1
o initial commit
I have tagged the lastest dangling commit with a tag, to make sure it doesnt get lost, just in case i need it at some point in the future.
However, when viewing that repository in egits history, i dont get the dangling commits. They are simply not shown. When i create a branch that points to dangling commit 2 the two commits including the tag are shown.
How to prevent that? I want to see everything, not only branches in egit's history view.
EDIT: Added a nice screenshot montage:
The first one shows master checked out, and no dangling branch exists. Of course, the dangling commits and the dangling-tag exist!
On the second one i created a branch called dangling that points on the commit tagged with the tag dangling and checked it out.
Note that the view doesn't change (except for the bold written master and the HEAD getting moved) when i check out master on the second picture.
robinst mentions in the comments:
This was simply a bug in EGit and happened only with annotated tags, please see bug 417655 which proposes the fix in org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.history.GitHistoryPage.
Target Egit 3.1
Original answer:
This Egit exercice discusses the History View:
Consider the different button available in this view:
:
That tutorial mentions:
TIP: If you got lost with the different filters and the history doesn’t show what you expect, set it back to show everything.
Therefore make sure that 'Show all branches and tags' (a) is turned on and 'Show all changes in repository' (e) is selected.
Those two buttons should potentially show you all reachable (that is at least tagged) commits.
The "Filtering settings" section of the Egit User Guide is clear:
The next four toggle buttons in the view toolbar control how the displayed commits are filtered with respect to the current input.
The buttons are working as radio buttons, i.e. one of the four buttons must always be down.
If the "Repository" button is down, the commit log is not filtered and shows all commits reachable from the currently checked out branch (or all commits, see below about the "All Branches" action)
If the "Project" button is down, the commit log is filtered to show all commits which affected any of the resources in the project containing the current input
If the "Folder" toggle is down, the commit log is filtered to show all commits which affected any of the resources in the parent folder of the current input
If the "Resource" button is down, the commit log is filtered to show only commits which affected the current input; the view menu item Show > Follow Renames allows to toggle whether renames of the selected resource should be followed by this filter
Note that not all combinations of filter setting and current input are meaningful; for example, if the current input is a project, the "Project" option is in fact the same as the "Resource" option.
But the "All branches" sections add:
This toggle activates the "All Branches" mode.
By default, only those commits are shown in the commit log that can be reached from the currently checked out commit, i.e. the Commit Graph ends with the currently checked out commit and newer commits are not shown.
If this button is down, all commits will be shown in the commit log.
In your case, I am not sure commits are show when referenced by a tag alone.
Only branches make those commits visible.
I have a repository with many branches and I am tying to figure out if a particular commit (with a specific commit message) is in my current branch. I can find the "interesting" commit using the the find box at the bottom of the History view.
I tried following the vertical lines but there is so much line-crossing that I find it really hard to say if the commit is in or not.
Is there a way to see all commits that contributed to a particular branch as a single list?
When you select a commit in the history view, look at the detail area for this commit. After author and committer details, you can see which branches contain the commit (Branches: ...). In case this area is hidden, open the view menu (the triangle) and check Show > Revision Comment.
You can also open the commit in a new window using the context menu and selecting Open in Commit Viewer.
I generated and destroyed a scaffold, generated a new scaffold, which resulted in a huge mess, such as the CSS (nav fonts are not correct, buttons have a hover yet nothing was specified in the file originally). The "description" field did not appear with the new scaffold and more. I have gone through the new scaffold files and have spent hours to only prefer to have the current version I pushed override the local files and start over from that point.
Is there a way to download the last version i pushed to github to override the current local files and start from there? I have not committed any of the current changes.
you can "undo" your changes in git very easily with the reset command.
git reset HEAD --hard
will force remove all your changes to the state they were in the HEAD revision.