Here are some frequently used GIT commands.
Getting & Creating Projects
- git init // Initialize a local Git repository
- git clone ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git // Create a local copy of a remote repository
Basic Snapshotting
- git status // Check status git add [file-name.txt] // Add a file to the staging area
- git add -A // Add all new and changed files to the staging area
- git commit -m “[commit message]” // Commit changes
- git rm -r [file-name.txt] // Remove a file (or folder)
Branching & Merging
- git branch // List branches (the asterisk denotes the current branch)
- git branch -a // List all branches (local and remote)
- git branch [branch name] // Create a new branch
- git branch -d [branch name] // Delete a branch
- git push origin –delete [branchName] // Delete a remote branch
- git checkout -b [branch name] // Create a new branch and switch to it
- git checkout -b [branch name] origin/[branch name] // Clone a remote branch and switch to it
- git checkout [branch name] // Switch to a branch
- git checkout – // Switch to the branch last checked out
- git checkout — [file-name.txt] // Discard changes to a file
- git merge [branch name] // Merge a branch into the active branch
- git merge [source branch] [target branch] // Merge a branch into a target branch
- git stash // Stash changes in a dirty working directory
- git stash clear // Remove all stashed entries
Sharing & Updating Projects
- git push origin [branch name] // Push a branch to your remote repository
- git push -u origin [branch name] // Push changes to the remote repository (and remember the branch)
- git push // Push changes to the remote repository (remembered branch)
- git push origin –delete [branch name] // Delete a remote branch
- git pull // Update local repository to the newest commit
- git pull origin [branch name] // Pull changes from the remote repository
- git remote add origin ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git // Add a remote repository
- git remote set-url origin ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git // Set a repository’s origin branch to SSH
Inspection & Comparison
- git log // View changes
- git log –summary // View changes (detailed)
- git diff [source branch] [target branch] // Preview changes before merging
Push a branch to master branch or other
- git push origin puneet:master
Forcefully get the repository version of the branch:
If you have any local changes, they will be lost. With or without –hard option, any local commits that haven’t been pushed will be lost.
- git fetch –all // downloads the latest from remote without trying to merge or rebase anything.
- git reset –hard origin/master // resets local branch to repo forcefully deleting all local changes.
- git reset –hard origin/<branch_name> // command for other branch
Saving current commits in a new local branch before resetting:
You can save current local commits before resetting by creating a local branch with the commits.
- git checkout master
- git branch new-branch-to-save-current-commits
- git fetch –all
- git reset –hard origin/master
Git Stash – saving uncommitted changes:
This saves uncommitted changes and you can reapply them later on.
git stash // saves uncommitted changes git stash pop // re-apply uncommitted changes ————– Will be adding more commands ———————–