Whenever your local branch diverges from the remote branch, you can’t directly pull from the remote branch and merge it into the local branch. This can happen when, for example: You checkout from the main branch to work on a feature in a branch named alice. When you’re done, you merge alice into main. After that, if you try to pull the main branch from remote again and the content of the main branch changes by this time, you’ll encounter a merge error....
I run git log --oneline to list out the commit logs all the time. It prints out a compact view of the git history. Running the command in this repo gives me this: d9fad76 Publish blog on safer operator.itemgetter, closes #130 0570997 Merge pull request #129 from rednafi/dependabot/... 6967f73 Bump actions/setup-python from 3 to 4 48c8634 Merge pull request #128 from rednafi/dependabot/pip/mypy-0.961 5b7a7b0 Bump mypy from 0.960 to 0.961 However, there are times when I need to list out the commit logs that only represent the changes made to a particular file....
Writing consistent commit messages helps you to weave a coherent story with your git history. Recently, I’ve started paying attention to my commit messages. Before this, my commit messages in this repository used to look like this: git log --oneline -5 d058a23 (HEAD -> master) bash strict mode a62e59b Updating functool partials til. 532b21a Added functool partials til ec9191c added unfinished indexing script 18e41c8 Bash tils With all the misuse of letter casings and punctuations, clearly, the message formatting is all over the place....