Git adventures

I wanted to clean up some Bootstrap files from a project directory. After the cleanup. I pushed the changes to the remote repo (BitBucket).
However, I noticed that the files that should be deleted (and was deleted on local repo), was still existing on the remote repo.
After some head scratching, i released that the problem was that I used the file system delete, instead of the git delete.

$ git rm 
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "changes"
$ git push

Everything was fine now and good, until I come back to see that i deleted an important directory due to a misuse of the “*” during the delete.
Well, that what and DSCM was meant for.. Git come to the rescue…. except that it took me 30mins or trying different command ( and help from Stackoverflow) to find the right combo, thus:

cf361cb is the last commit with the missing directory

$ git revert --no-commit cf361cb..HEAD
$ git commit

This is a safe and easy way to rollback to a previous state. Checks for the missing directory

$ ls -ltr
$ cd static/

Cleanup files

$ git rm *.css
$ git rm *.js

Then commit and push

$ git add .
$ git status
$ 1398 git commit -m "UI file cleanup"
$ git push

And Wossah!!
The git throws up a new error, “fatal: You are not currently on a branch”
I checked on the git

$ git status

And trully, you are not a branch!
I was getting loosing the modification twice after using 2 different command, until i hit on the right combo (also good help from stackoverflow)

$ git checkout -b newbranch
$ git checkout master
$ git merge newbranch
$ git branch -d newbranch
$ git status
$ git push

Hurray!!