A "branch" is term used in version control systems to represent an independent line of development. Depending on the system, a repository can contain one or more branches. Branches are merged when changes need to propagate from one branch into another.

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TFS branch hangs after 2012 upgrade

We are having an issue branching a folder in a project after upgrading from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 Update 1. If I try and branch a folder called 'Release' to a folder called anything else then it gets ...
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How to move git branch up tree (reverse rebase)

Say I have a series of commits that looks like this: h {master} ^ f g {branch1} ^ ^ d e ^/ c ^ b ^ a I know I can move the branch1 to the end of the tree via rebase, so it would look like this: ...
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How should I merge an SVN branch after migrating the repo to Git?

I migrated a SourceForge.net project from Subversion to Git using (mostly) the instructions at http://chris.iluo.net/blog/2009/08/28/moving-from-svn-to-git/. It imported my branches and trunk ...
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Error: You have exceeded your disk space quota error message in git

When I try to push to my repositoty I see the following error message: Error: You have exceeded your disk space quota. Please upgrade your account or remove some data. fatal: Could not read from ...
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Prevent pushing into a wrong remote branch

I want to have two branches locally (e.g. a-local and b-local) and two branches remotely (e.g. a-remote, b-remote), and they match in pairs (e.g. a-local - a-remote, etc). How do I make sure I don't ...
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Is it worth it to rewrite an if statement to avoid branching?

Recently I realized I have been doing too much branching without caring the negative impact on performance it had, therefore I have made up my mind to attempt to learn all about not branching. And ...
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TFS: Branch without check-in

I'm going to create a new (vc)project which will start as a copy of another project. I want to have the possibility to simply merge changes between these two projects, although they are inside another ...
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svn diff last committed and last branched

I have created a branch and I have made a couple of commits. I would like to see diff between last committed revision and version when the file was branched. Can svn do that ?
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Assembly, PDP11, using ascii code to jump to specific label

I have a small question: I have a subroutine that receives a letter (let's say "A") from the stack, and I want to jump to a label with the same name. For example: main: mov -(sp), r1 br r1 A: mov ...
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Rebase and changing branch is including all merged commits in pull request

I'm coming from a SVN background. I've forked and branched a git repository. Then I changed the branch (let's call it my-branch), committed, pushed and sent a Pull Request. It happens that the ...
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Git-flow, some n00b questions

I have started to use git flow and have some questions. In examples like here and here I see a release branch started and then several commits done before the release branch gets finished. Why is ...
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Git branching model problems

I'm implementing the successful git merging model by Vincent (http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/). So I've a main repository "main" on our gitorious server with 2 main branches: ...
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How can I search path of folders where a particular git branch is created?

In Git, how could I search for path of directory where particular branch is created..? Actually there is a git branch on which all the changes were carried out. Now i wanted to know on which ...
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Git: can't switch to new remote branch

I have an account on github and I use it from two different machines. On one, I created a new branch myNewBranch and switched to it. Then I did my modifications to my code, I committed and pushed to ...
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Can git permanently ignore a remote branch?

I'm using the Pages feature of GitHub. This works by putting the published HTML in a branch called gh-pages. I have two separate working directories, one for the project itself and one for the HTML ...

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