Both git am and git apply can be used to apply patches. I fail to see the difference. I see a difference now: git am automatically commits whereas git apply only touches the files but doesn't create a commit. Is that the only difference? ...

...te branch, as described in Rename master branch for both local and remote Git repositories . 33 Answers ...

I have just start using git and i can't get it to remember my passphrase I'm using cmd.exe elevated and my git host is github and i have create a ssh key like that guide on github ...

I have a project with multiple branches. I've been pushing them to GitHub , and now that someone else is working on the project I need to pull their branches from GitHub. It works fine in master. But say that someone created a branch xyz . How can I pull branch xyz from GitHub and merge it into ...

...apply a patch file (without committing the changes yet) by simply running git apply patchfile Then you can simply create a new stash from the current working directory: git stash share | improv...

I've always thought of git reset and git checkout as the same, in the sense that both bring the project back to a specific commit. However, I feel they can't be exactly the same, as that would be redundant. What is the actual difference between the two? I'm a bit confused, as the svn only has s...

Is it possible to git status and show only modified files? 16 Answers 16 ...

I’d like to change the language of git (to English) in my Linux installation without changing the language for other programs and couldn’t find the settings. How to do it? ...

I ended up with a detached head today, the same problem as described in: git push says everything up-to-date even though I have local changes ...

... I got over this issue by using git merge command with the --no-commit option and then explicitly removed the staged file and ignore the changes to the file. E.g.: say I want to ignore any changes to myfile.txt I proceed as follows: git merge --no-ff --no-...