Git Notes

Good Basic Global Git Config Settings

[color]
    diff = auto
    status = auto
    branch = auto
[user]
    name = Your Name
    email = [email protected]
[core]
    excludesfile = /Users/username/.gitignore
    editor = mate
[alias]
    st = status
    d = diff
    ci = commit -v
    cia = commit -v -a
    co = checkout
    cp = cherry-pick
    dci = svn dcommit
    l = log
    ll = log -p
    lm = log master..
    llm = log -p master..
    b = branch

Starting a Git repository

cd project/
git init				  # initializes the repository
git add -n .			  # do a dry-run to see what file are going to be added so you can make sure all the files you want to be ignored are ignored.
git add .				  # add those 'unknown' files
git rm --cached <file>... # use this command to remove any files that where added that you didn't want added
git commit				  # commit all changes, edit changelog entry

Add the a Remote and Push

git remote add origin git@<server-domain-name>:<repository-name>.git
git push origin master

If you want to be able to automatically pull from your remote repository you need to run the following command.

git branch --set-upstream master origin/master

The previous command adds the following to your .git/config for your current project.

[branch "master"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/master

Ignoring Files

To add files for just the current project use:

cd project/
touch .gitignore
echo "path/to/file" >> .gitignore

To add ignore rules for every project just add the .gitignore file to your home directory ~/.

Ways to Remove a file that was added before committing

git rm --cached <file>
git reset HEAD <file>

Setup a remote repository

Set up the new bare repo on the server:

$ ssh myserver.com
$ mkdir /var/git/myapp.git && cd /var/git/myapp.git
$ git --bare init

Add the remote repository to your existing local git repository and push:

$ cd project/
$ git remote add origin ssh://myserver.com/var/git/myapp.git
$ git push origin master

Setup a git repository from a Subversion repository

 git svn clone -s http://myserver.com/path/to/svn/repository repository
 cd repository
 git branch -a
 git reset --hard remotes/trunk

Push Changes back up to SVN

Checkout a branch and make edits

git checkout -b my_branch

Make your edits and commit changes

git add .
git commit -m "Made some changed to the branch"

Update against any changes made to your svn repo, rebase and then commit changes to your svn repo

git svn dcommit

Start and Track a New Remote Branch

Create the new remote branch

git push origin master:newbranch

Setup the new remote branch locally so you can push and pull to the new remote branch

git checkout --track -b newbranch origin/newbranch

Delete a remote Branch

git push origin :mybranch

Share Uncommitted Changes

To share uncommitted changes with someone or if you want to copy uncommitted changes from one git repository to another, first generate a patchfile from the git repository that has the changes you want to share.

git diff --no-prefix > patchfile

Copy the patchfile to the computer with the git repository that you want to apply the changes too and then run the following command.

 patch -p0 < patchfile

Any untracked files will have to be copied manually.

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