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Common git commands

View local commits not in origin/master

git log origin/master..HEAD

Reset local repo back to remote repo head

git reset --hard origin/master

Create a new remote branch called "design"

git push origin design

Push the contents of a local branch into those of a remote branch with a different name

git push origin <local branch name>:<remote branch to push into>

Delete a local branch called "design"

git branch -D design

Delete a remote branch called "design"

git push origin :design

Delete a remote branch called design using refs/head. You may have to do this if you have a tag with the same name as the branch you are trying to delete. i.e. error: dst refspec fix-1-improve-binary-download matches more than one.

git push origin :refs/heads/design

Create a new local branch and switch to it

git checkout -b new-branch

Revert remote repo to local, may be dangerous if others have pulled changes

git push staging master:master --force

Show origin details, shows tracking status of branches

git remote show origin

Set the remote tracking branch for a local

git branch --set-upstream foo upstream/foo

Create a new local branch that tracks an existing remote

git checkout --track -b ${branch_name} origin/${branch_name}

or

git checkout ${branch_name}

Ruby method to get current branch name

def git_branch
    `git name-rev --name-only HEAD`
end

Cache login details for 1 hour

git config --global credential.helper "cache --timeout=3600"

Git log on one line: hash, author, date/time, message

git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s"

###Housekeeping

Cleanup files, optimise repo

git gc

Delete all stale tracking branches under "origin"

git remote prune origin

#Do a dry run first
git remote prune -n origin

http://help.github.com/git-cheat-sheets/

###GitHub

https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo

Add original repo as upstream so you can pull updates

git remote add upstream [email protected]:feedhenry/Wufoo-Template.git
git fetch upstream

Clone a remote repo locally, change its name and set a new remote for it. This is handy if you have boilerplate stored in github and want to start a new project. This example uses my angular-seed boilerplate repo.

git clone https://github.com/dmcaodha/angular-seed.git
mv angular-seed/ <project-name>/
cd <project-name>/
rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit -a -m "boilerplate commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/dmcaodha/<repo-name>.git
git push -u origin master
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