| command | usage |
|---|---|
| git init | Creates an empty Git repository in the specified directory. |
| git clone | Clones a repository located at onto your local machine. |
| git add | Stages only the specified changes for the next commit. Replace with a to change a specific file. |
| git add . | Stages new files and modifications without deletions |
| git add -A | Stages all changes |
| git add -all | Equivalent to git add -A |
| git add -u | Stages modifications and deletions without adding new files |
| git add --update | Equivalent to git add -u |
| git commit -m ”” | Commits the staged snapshot. replace with the commit message. |
| git status | List which files are staged unstaged and untracked. |
| git log | Displays the entire commit history using the default format. |
| git diff | Shows unstaged changes between your index and working directory. |
| git pull | Fetchs the remote copy of the current branch. |
| git pull --rebase | Fetchs the remote copy of current branch and rebases it into the local copy. Use git rebase instead of merge to integrate the branches. |
| git push origin master | Push all of your commits to master branch. |
| git push --all | Push all of your local branches to the specified remote. |
| git push --tags | Tags aren’t automatically pushed when you push a branch or use the --all flag. The --tags flag sends all of your local tags to the remote repo. |
| git push --force | Forces the git push even if it results in a non-fast-forward merge. Do not use the --force flag unless you’re absolutely sure you know what you’re doing. |
| git revert | Creates new commit that undoes all of the changes made in and then applys it to the current branch. |
| git reset | Removes from the staging area but leaves the working directory unchanged - This unstages a file without overwriting any changes. |
| git clean -n | Shows which files would be removed from working directory. Use the -f flag in place of the -n flag to execute the clean. |
| git commit --amend | Replaces the last commit with the staged changes and last commit combined. Use with nothing staged to edit the last commit’s message. |
| git rebase | Rebase the current branch onto . can be a commit ID a branch name a tag or a relative reference to HEAD. |
| git reflog | Show a log of changes to the local repository’s HEAD. Add --relative-date flag to show date info or --all to show all refs. |
| git branch | Lists all of the branches in your repo. |
| git branch | Creates a new branch with the name . |
| git checkout -b | Creates and check out a new branch named . |
| git checkout | Checkout an existing branch. |
| git merge | Merge into the current branch. |
| git remote add | Creates a new connecti |
| git log --stat | Include which files were altered and the relative number of lineson to a remote repo. After adding a remote you can use as a shortcut for in other commands. |
| git fetch | Fetches a specific from the repo. Leave off to fetch all remote refs. |
| git pull | Fetches the specified remote’s copy of current branch and immediately merge it into the local copy. |
| git push | Pushes the branch to along with necessary commits and objects. Creates named branch in the remote repo if it doesn’t exist. |
| git config --global user.name | Defines the author name to be used for all commits by the current user. |
| git config --global user.email | Defines the author email to be used for all commits by the current user. |
| git config --global alias. | Creates shortcut for a Git command. E.g. alias.p push will set git p equivalent to git push. |
| git config --system core.editor | Set text editor used by commands for all users on the machine. arg should be the command that launches the desired editor (e.g; vi). |
| git config --global --edit | Opens the global configuration file in a text editor for manual editing. |
| git log - | Limits the number of git rebase -i E.g. git log -5 will limit to 5 commits. |
| git log --oneline | Condenses each commit to a single line. |
| git log -p | Displays the full diff of each commit. |
| git log --stat | Include which files were altered and the relative number of lines that were added or deleted from each of them. |
| git log --author= ”” | Searchs for commits by a particular author. |
| git log --grep=”” | Searchs for commits with a commit message that matches . |
| git log .. | Shows commits that occur between and . Args can be a any kind of revision reference. |
| git log -- | Only display commits that have the specified file. |
| git log --graph --decorate | --graph flag draws a text based graph of commits on left side of commit msgs. --decorate adds names of branches or tags of commits shown. |
| git diff HEAD | Shows difference between working directory and last commit. |
| git diff --cached | Shows difference between staged changes and last commit |
| git reset | Resets the staging area to match most recent commit but leaves the working directory unchanged. |
| git reset --hard | Resets the staging area and working directory to match most recent commit and overwrites all changes in the working directory. |
| git reset | Moves the current branch tip backward to resets the staging area to match but leaves the working directory unchanged. |
| git reset --hard | Same as previous but resets both the staging area & working directory to match. Deletes uncommitted changes and all commits after . |
| git rebase -i | Interactively rebase current branch onto . Launches editor to enter commands for how each commit will be transferred to the new base. |
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