How To Remove All Git Commit History
git checkout --orphan latest_branch
git add -A
git commit -am "initial commit"
git branch -D main
git branch -m main
git push -f origin main
Review Changes Before Pull
git fetch
git diff main origin/main
Review Changes After Pull
The output of git pull will have something like this: Updating 37b431a..b2615b4. Then we can do:
git diff 37b431a b2615b4
Clone
git clone <repo URL>
Get Cloned Repo Detail
git remote show origin
Store/unstore Credentials Globally
git config --global credential.helper store
git config --global --unset credential.helper
Checkout
git checkout <branch name> (to create a local branch based on a remote branch and make it the local Head branch)
Push
git push -u origin <branch name> (to publish local branch)
Commit
git commit -m “Implement the new login box”
Branches
git branch <branch name> (create a new branch)
git branch [-v] (lists current branches)
git checkout <branch name>
git merge <branch name>
git merge --abort (undo last merge)
Reset
git reset --hard HEAD (discard all uncommitted changes)
git reset --hard 2be18d9 (roll back to the revision whose hash is provided)
Revert
git revert 2b504be (undo the changes in the revision whose hash is provided)
Deleting Branches
git branch -d <branch name> (to delete local branch)
git branch -dr <branch name> (to delete remote branch)
After fresh install
git config --global user.name “John Doe”
git config --global user.email “[email protected]”
git config --global color.ui auto
Staging
git add new-page.html index.html css/*
git rm error.html
git status
Log
git log
git log -p (for details changes including diff)
Stash
git stash (store in stash)
git stash list (display stash list)
git stash pop (apply last stash and delete it from stash)
git stash apply <stashname> (apply specific stash and keep it saved)