Useful Git commands

useful-git-commands.sh

# Cloning a repository
git clone repository-url

# Initializing a bare repository
git init
git remote add origin repository-url

# Initializing a repository in a non-empty directory and adding all existing files
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'
git remote add origin repository-url
git push -u origin master

# Adding a file to a repository and committing it
git add somefile.txt
git commit -m "Added somefile"
git push -u origin master

# Checking out a branch
git checkout somebranch

# Checking out a tracking branch
git checkout -b somebranch origin/somebranch

# Creating a branch based off of your current branch and pushing to remote
git branch newbranch
git push -u origin newbranch

# Create a branch based off of another branch
git checkout -b newbranch somebranch

# Create and checkout a new branch
git checkout -b newbranch

# Fetch commits from all branches
git fetch origin

# Fetch commits from a particular branch
git fetch origin somebranch

# Merging a branch into the current branch
git merge somebranch