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git push after git tag problem (everything up-to-date)

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 23 2016

If you attempt to do a normal git push origin master after adding a tag, you’ll get an “Everything up-to-date” message from Git. In short, this is because you have to push a tag to the origin just like you push a branch.

In my case I just created a tag named v0.1, so I pushed it like this:

git push origin v0.1

The output from the git push command looks like this:

Using git with ssh running on a non-standard port

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 5 2016

Yesterday I needed to be able to specify a port with a git clone command, because the git server runs ssh on a non-standard port. In short, the solution was to put this text in my ~/.ssh/config file:

The Git 'topic branch' workflow (pattern)

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 3 2016

In this short article, I'll demonstrate the typical workflow for using a Git topic branch. If you've never heard of a topic branch, here's a description from the excellent book, Pro Git:

"A topic branch is a short-lived branch that you create and use for a single particular feature or related work.

Tell Git not to track a file any more (remove from repo)

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: November 11 2018

Git rm FAQ: How do I tell Git not to track a file (or files) any more? That is, I want to remove the file from the Git repo?

While working on an application named "sarah" yesterday (named for the house known as "SARAH" in the tv series Eureka), I accidentally checked some files into Git that I didn't mean to. These were were primarily binary files in my project's "bin" and "target" directories.

git status message - Your branch is ahead of origin/master by X commits

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: March 29 2017

git status FAQ: When I issue the "git status" command, I see the following "Your branch is ahead or origin/master ..." git message:

# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 5 commits.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

What does this "Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by X commits" message mean? I keep committing my changes with "git commit", so this message seems to be in error.

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