GIT Commands

Some easy useful git commands

Git configuration

You can configure git by creating a .gitconfig file in user folder
or use commands

git config --global user.name {{YOUR_USERNAME}}

git config --global user.email {{YOUR_EMAIL}}

git config -l

To create Git repository locally

git init

Download/Clone repository from remote

git clone {{REPOSITORY_LINK}}

Git branch

Git branches are effectively a pointer to a snapshot of your changes. When you want to add a new feature or fix a bug—no matter how big or how small—you spawn a new branch to encapsulate your changes

View all branches

git branch

Create a new branch

git branch {{BRANCH_NAME}}

Delete a branch

git branch -d {{BRANCH_NAME}}

Switch to another branch

git switch {{BRANCH_NAME}}

Merge a branch to current branch

git merge {{BRANCH_NAME}}

Sync branches

git fetch

Cleanup all local branches

Before fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the remote.

git fetch --prune

Git stage

Before we make a commit, we must tell Git what files we want to commit (new untracked files, modified files, or deleted files) this is called staging.

To know the file status/changes

git status

Add a file to stage

git add {{FILE}}

Add all files to stage

git add .

Add only certain files starts with

With the asterisk command , you can add all files starting with 'index' in the staging area.

git add {{FILE_STARTS_WITH}}*

Reset/undo file changes

git reset {{FILE}}

Reset/undo all changes

git reset

Git Update

Update changes to remotes

Commit changes

git commit -m {{"YOUR_COMMIT_MESSAGE"}}

Get changes from remote

git pull

Get changes from different branch

git pull origin {{BRANCH}}

Updates changes to remote

git push

Updates changes to different branch

git push origin HEAD:{{BRANCH}}

Git Undo

Undo/revert changes from git

Reset/undo local changes

git reset --hard

Reset to previous heads

git reset --hard HEAD~{{NUMBER}}

Revert changes

git revert head

Revert a commit

git revert {{COMMIT_ID}}

Git Helps

To get git command help

git help

To see commit history

git log

View commit log as a graph

git log --graph --oneline

View commit log as a graph of all branches

git log --graph --oneline --all

Show changes between commits, commit and working tree,

git diff

Remove tracked files from the current working tree

git rm {{FILE}}