Category: GIt
How to Solve Git Clone Authentication Issues with a Personal Access Token (PAT)?
While working on cloning a repository from a GitHub Enterprise server, I encountered an SSL issue. When I tried to clone the repository using HTTPS, Git prompted me to enter credentials, but I wasn’t using a typical username and password combination because I log in using Microsoft 365 credentials. Here’s the full breakdown of the…
Host key for github.com has changed and you have requested strict checking.
I find this error from time to time, so posting the solution here for easy finding: This is what the error looks like after trying to run git pull: The solution is to run the following command: The ssh-keygen -R command is used to remove a host’s key from the user’s known hosts file. When…
Git commands to replace a branch with another branch
git branch -m my_feature_branch my_feature_branch_new_name # Rename my_feature_branch git checkout my_feature_branch_new_name && git push origin my_feature_branch_new_name # Push the backup to the origin, so it is there as reference for other team members. git checkout master # Checkout to the branch that will replace the my_feature_branch. git checkout -b my_feature_branch # Create a new my_feature_branch…