How do I show my global Git configuration?
2023-02-24
Question I'd like to show all configured Git sections. I only found git config --get core.editor, and I'd like to output everything that's configured globally, not only the configured default editor. Answer You can use: git config --list or look at your ~/.gitconfig file. The local configuration will be in your repository's .git/config file. Use: git config --list --show-origin to see where that setting is defined (global, user, repo, etc...)
How to `git pull` while ignoring local changes?
2023-02-24
Question Is there a way to do a git pull that ignores any local file changes without blowing the directory away and having to perform a git clone? Answer If you mean you want the pull to overwrite local changes, doing the merge as if the working tree were clean, well, clean the working tree: git reset --hard git pull If there are untracked local files you could use git clean to remove them.…
How to find a commit by its hash?
2023-02-24
Question I need to find a commit in Git by a given hash, SHA. For example, if I have the "a2c25061" hash, and I need to get the author and the committer of this commit. What is the command to get that? Answer Just use the following command git show a2c25061
How to unstage large number of files without deleting the content
2023-02-24
Question I accidentally added a lot of temporary files using git add -A I managed to unstage the files using the following commands and managed to remove the dirty index. git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -f git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached The above commands are listed in the git help rm. But sadly, my files were also deleted on execution, even though I had given cache option.…
How to check if a column exists in Pandas
2023-02-22
Question How do I check if a column exists in a Pandas DataFrame df? A B C 0 3 40 100 1 6 30 200 How would I check if the column "A" exists in the above DataFrame so that I can compute: df['sum'] = df['A'] + df['C'] And if "A" doesn't exist: df['sum'] = df['B'] + df['C'] Answer This will work: if 'A' in df: But for clarity, I'd probably write it as:…
What's the significance of the 'No newline at end of file' log?
2023-02-22
Question When doing a git diff it says "No newline at end of file". What's the significance of the message and what's it trying to tell us? Answer It indicates that you do not have a newline (usually \n, aka LF or CRLF) at the end of file. That is, simply speaking, the last byte (or bytes if you're on Windows) in the file is not a newline. The message is displayed because otherwise there is no way to tell the difference between a file where there is a newline at the end and one where is not.…
How do you copy and paste into Git Bash
2023-02-21
Question I'm using msysgit running on Windows XP. Tried Ctrl+V, Right click, Middle click, google... no luck. Answer Press Insert. Also, to copy from the window, try clicking the console's window icon (topleft) and choosing Edit -> Mark, then drag a box on the text, then press Enter. (You can also paste via the window icon menu, but the key is faster.) UPDATE Starting from Windows 10 the CTRL + C, CTRL + V and a lot of other feature are implemented in conhost.…