Less obvious git commands

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Less obvious git commands

To prevent myself from Googling over and over, I will gather some of the hard to remember git commands

Clone just the tip of a specified branch (no history)

git clone --depth=1 --branch=master git://someserver/somerepo

Search commit messages

git log --oneline | grep PATTERN

Show commit messages by current user

git log --since=5.days --author="$(git config user.name)"

Search removed file

git log --full-history -- FILENAME

Add gh-pages branch

• Add build folder to .gitignore in master/development branch
• git checkout --orphan gh-pages
• git rm -rf .
• Make a first commit and push
• Script something like git checkout gh-pages && git add --all && git commit -m "Release at $(date)" && git push origin gh-pages or use Travis to deploy

Remove local branches which are removed from remote

• git remote prune origin --dry-run
• git remote prune origin

Push everything to remote

• git push REMOTE --all
• git push REMOTE --tags