My Git Recipes
Warning: be very careful before running 'git reset --hard' You will lose uncomitted changes!
Accidentally committed on <master> instead of <branch>
You should have committed to an existing branch but accidentally committed to master.
git branch <tmp> git reset --hard d2bed98430712af9c5c940c5a594b8da51639eb3 git rebase --onto <branch> <master> <tmp> git checkout <branch> git merge <tmp> git branch -d <tmp>
Move recent commits into <branch> instead of <master>
You made a couple of commits to master but now realise they should have been split into a branch.
git branch <branch> git reset --hard a6b4c974 git checkout <branch>
Revert an earlier commit
git revert ac14f7f40265e7a66b2927f1bbfb50cb095a3345
Track a remote branch
git checkout --track origin/<branch>
Stop tracking a remote branch
git config --unset branch.<branch>.remote git config --unset branch.<branch>.merge git branch -d <branch>
Delete a remote tag
git tag -d 12345 git push origin :refs/tags/12345