I'm new to Git. I wish to know what are tracked and untracked files? I read "Pro Git", but still couldn't quite understand. Can someone explain to me the difference between the two by providing a...

I want to remove all version tracking from a project's directory. What is the correct method to do this? Can I do a shell command such as: rm -rf .git from my projects directory or is there a ...

How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git? I am asking to stop tracking because in my concrete case, I want to delete the local branch, but not the remote one. Deleting the local one and pus...

Until recently, I have not been aware of --track switch for git branch. I read the documentation and tried this command, but it has no sense to me. --track When creating a new branch, set up ...

I want to create a git branch that will work independent of the master branch. I want all the code that is present in the master till now, but any further changes in the master should not reflect i...

We are moving our (huge) project to git and we are thinking about using submodules. Our plan is to have three different heads in the superproject: release, stable, latest The project leads will h...

I am new to git and I would like to know how to tackle a very basic scenario. I read so many posts on stackoverflow about git but still can't figure out the answer. We have an origin/master remote...

So I ran this command: git checkout -b --track origin/RB_1.4.5 I thought that it would create a local branch by the same name and set it up to track the remote branch, but instead it created a b...