The minimalistic git knowledge that you must know.

git.MD

Git: The version control system

Initializing a git repo

• git init: initialize a git repository

Connecting to a Online repository

• git remote add origin https://github.com/akcgjc007/avl_tree.git: Connect your git to an existring online repository
• git remote -v: Show connected repositories

Adding files

• git add .: Add all files present in the current directory.
• git add <filename>: Add a particular file.

Commiting changes

• git commit -m "Commit message": Commiting currently staged changes
• git commit -a -m "Commit message": Staging and commiting alll current changes

Pulling changes

• git pull: Will pull the changes done by other collaborators

Switching branch

• git switch <existing-branch>: Will switch to a branch that already exists.
• git checkout -b <non-existing-branch>: Will create a new branch for you.

Deleting branches

• git branch -d <branch>: delete the local branch
• git push -d origin <branch>: delete the online branch

Pushing changes to online repository i.e. Github/Bitbucket

• git push: Push current commits
• git -f push: Forced push commits, will remove any conflicting changes

Reverting changes

• git stash: Will remove all uncommited changes
• git reset --hard: Go back to the previous commit
• git reset --hard HEAD~3: go back to three commits before
• git reset --hard HEAD^^^: go back to three commits before
• git reset --hard <commit-hash>: go back to this specific commit

Ignoring files

• Add a .gitignore file into you directory, and name any files and folder that you don't want to commit
• myFolder/: Will ignore all files in myFolder
• *.png: Will ignore all png files in the current directory

Removing git

• git remote remove origin: Remove the online associations from git
• rm -rf .git: Will remove all associations of git