Jan 18, 2017 · There are a number of obvious differences between Git and GitHub. Git itself is really focused on the essential tasks of version control. It maintains a commit history, it allows you to reverse changes through reset and revert commands, and it allows you to share code with other developers through push and pull commands. I think those are the ...

Nov 17, 2016 · The git: scheme directs Git to use the Git protocol (which is built in to Git itself). The https: scheme directs Git to use HTTP over SSL, via libcurl. An ssh: prefix directs Git to use ssh, and user@host:path is shorthand for ssh://user@host/path .

May 26, 2013 · On the other hand, Git Bash/msysGit uses the Bash shell (Bourne Again Shell) and MinGW, which is a port of a Linux style environment and command line tools. PoshGit will let you use Windows and Power Shell commands with Git at the command line, while Git Bash will let you use MinGW/Linux tools with Git at the command line.

Oct 30, 2015 · GitHub Desktop embeds a fixed (older) version of git-for-windows, in quite a complex path (C:\Users\vonc\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_<sha1>), and you cannot change it easily: "How to update git version from GitHub Desktop on Windows"

A tag is a git concept whereas a Release is GitHub higher level concept. As stated in the official announcement post from the GitHub blog: "Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond Git artifacts."

Feb 13, 2012 · What is the difference between origin and upstream on GitHub? When a git branch -a command is executed, some branches it displays have a prefix of origin (remotes/origin/..) while others have a prefix of upstream (remotes/upstream/..).

A fork is really a Github (not Git) construct to store a clone of the repo in your user account. As a clone, it will contain all the branches in the main repo at the time you made the fork. Each branch within the fork and/or in the main repo can correspond to several kinds of things, depending on how you want to work.

Nov 21, 2015 · In short you are using GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES environment variable to have access to object database of the other repository, and using git rev-parse with --git-dir / GIT_DIR to convert symbolic name in other repository to SHA-1 identifier. Modern version would look something like this (assuming that you are in 'repo_a'):

Nov 15, 2008 · What is the difference between git pull and git fetch? To understand this, you first need to understand that your local git maintains not only your local repository, but it also maintains a local copy of the remote repository. git fetch brings your local copy of the remote repository up to date. For example, if your remote repository is GitHub ...

The git switch command was new in Git 2.23. There's no real difference between git switch and git checkout for this particular case. The new command was added because the Git folks found that git checkout is too complicated—it has a lot of modes—and that some of its modes were destructive. This destruction hit even experienced Git users ...