Top "Git-pull" questions

pull-only repo's 'git status' saying the branch is ahead of origin/master. Why?

So here's the situation: $ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by [x] commits. # There …

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How do I pull/fetch with Git *INTO* a bare repository?

I'm writing a tool to backup all my repositories from Bitbucket (which supports Git and Mercurial) to my local machine. …

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What is the difference between clone and mkdir->cd->init->remote-add->pull?

After setting up a repo on Github, there seems to be two ways to pull that repo into a local …

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git pull analogous to / opposite of git push -f?

Sometimes, esp. when I'm the only one working on a remote repository, I like rewriting the history with git rebase …

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What is the difference between git pull and git reset --hard origin/<branch>?

I find the latter to be faster than the first, so I usually do that after git fetch whenever I …

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How can I tell what happened in a Git commit with two parents that did not merge in the changes from the second parent?

In Gitk I can see a team member's commit (X) that has two parents, the first parent is his own …

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