Git Tips and Tricks
2 min readSep 2, 2019
Helpful Git hacks
A collection of Git tips and tricks curated from the internet. They came in handy in many situations for me and I hope you find them useful as well.
Update the local list of remote branches
To update the local list of remote branches run the following
git remote update origin --pruneSource — https://stackoverflow.com/a/36358502/5341284
Rename a Git branch in local
To rename a Git branch in the local copy of the repository, do this
git branch -m <oldname> <newname>To rename the current branch
git branch -m <newname>Source — https://stackoverflow.com/a/6591218/5341284
Pull from one, push to another
It is possible to pull from one repository and push to another. Just change the pushurl setting.
git remote set-url — push origin user@example.com:repo.gitMerge up to a specific Commit
Checkout to the branch that is behind the branch you want to merge commits from. Then,
git merge <commit-id>Git status on all repositories in a folder
Go to the folder containing all the repositories you want status on and then run the following command
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec sh -c ‘(echo {} && cd {} && git status && echo)’ \;