Re: Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
Thanks all.  I found that the simple git pull did what I needed it to do. Built an experimental version of an experimental version...  If anyone is interested I'm trying to hunt down a weird DST/ST time bug.  These are a bear.  It's really amazing how often people get this wrong.  And quite an

Re: Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread Bill Ricker
Dan's way is as good as any. (Could also commit to the local branch instead of stashing, which would let you diff against your config tweaks.) I find that understanding what Git is doing really helps me figure out what i want to do. My preferred intro for this is - Git from the inside out <

Re: Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread David Berube
If you want to skip the git pull, you can also do this: git fetch git reset --hard origin/master ... assuming your origin is called "origin", which is the default, and that the branch in question is called "master." Note that this will set the current branch to whatever "master" is on origin, so

Re: Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread Dan Coutu
Bruce, there’s more than one way to do it. Of course. If you have not done a git commit of your changes then you can use ‘git stash’ to save your changes in the stash. If you have made commits, and your commits are up to date, then skip doing things with the stash. If you want to have your c

Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread Bruce Labitt
Guys & Gals, sorry for the elementary question. I have cloned a project that I am interested.  Along the way, I fiddled with setting, mostly debug, but none of my changes are important.  I've built the project and am using it.  I'd like to re download it from the repo again, abandoning any chan