Your name and email address were configured automatically based on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate. You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email you@example.com
After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:
git commit --amend --reset-author
git clone <your_repo_url(forked)>
For the very first time if you didn't configured remote repository then do it using this command.
git remote add tasol <remote_repo_url(From where you have forked)>
Fetch changes from remote repository.
git fetch tasol
Configure local working branch:
Informative way
git branch <new_local_branch_name> tasol/master
git checkout <new_local_branch_name>
Recommended Way
git checkout -b <new_local_branch_name> tasol/master
or
git merge tasol/master
To Commit local branch
git commit -a -m "Your commit message"
Push you local branch on your Github Repository.
git push origin <new_local_branch_name>
If you want to push your local branch into new remote branch then
git push origin <new_local_branch_name>:<remote_branch_name>
git checkout -- .
git branch -D `git branch --merged | grep -v \* | xargs`
.gitignore is only meant to prevent files from being tracked. Once a file is tracked, the ignore file has no effect on it.
You can make Git ignore changes to your file using
git update-index --assume-unchanged <your_file_path_which_needs_to_be_ignore>
Enjoy GIT with Linux