GIT commands

Git command Flow:

Setup:

git config --global user.name “[firstname lastname]”	set a name that is identifiable for credit when review version history
git config --global user.email “[valid-email]”	set an email address that will be associated with each history marker
git config --system core.longpaths true	Git has a limit of 4096 characters for a filename, except on Windows when Git is compiled with msys. It uses an older version of the Windows API and there's a limit of 260 characters for a filename. So as far as I understand this, it's a limitation of msys and not of Git. You can read the details here: https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/110

 

Setup & Init:

git init	Initialize an existing directory as a Git repository
git clone <repository_url>	retrieve an entire repository from a hosted location via URL
git clone <URL> --branch <branch-name>	fetching all the branches and checking out one
git clone --single-branch --branch <branchname> <remote-repo>	Prevent fetching of all branches

 

Stage & Snapshot:

git status	Show modified files / Staged for next commit
git add [file]	add a file as it looks now to your next commit (stage)
git reset [file]	unstage a file while retaining the changes in working directory
git diff	diff of what is changed but not staged
git diff --staged	diff of what is staged but not yet committed
git commit -m “[descriptive message]”	commit your staged content as a new commit snapshot

 

Branch & Merge:

git branch -a	List all branches
git branch [branch-name]	create a new branch at the current commit
git checkout <name_of_branch>	Checkout the branch
git merge [branch]	merge the specified branch’s history into the current one
git log	show all commits in the current branch’s history
git log branchB..branchA	show the commits on branchA that are not on branchB
git diff branchB...branchA	show the diff of what is in branchA that is not in branchB

 

Share & Update:

git remote add [alias] [url]	add a git URL as an alias
git fetch [alias]	fetch down all the branches from that Git remote
git merge [alias]/[branch]	merge a remote branch into your current branch to bring it up to date
git push [alias] [branch]	Transmit local branch commits to the remote repository branch
git pull  git pull origin [branch]	fetch and merge any commits from the tracking remote branch

 

Rewrite History:

git rebase [branch]	apply any commits of current branch ahead of specified one
git reset --hard [commit]	clear staging area, rewrite working tree from specified commit

 

Temporary commits:

git stash	Save modified and staged changes
git stash list	list stack-order of stashed file changes
git stash pop	write working from top of stash stack
git stash drop	discard the changes from top of stash stack

 

 

 

 Important links:

https://medium.com/javarevisited/git-commands-that-you-must-know-7ff17fab7482