A list of useful terminal commands for Git

git-terminal-commands

git commit file1 file2 file5 -m "commit message"  ## add specific files and commit in one line
git commit -am "commit message"  ## add all files and commt in one line - does not include new files
git push -u origin hotfix  ## push a new branch to the remote
$ git push origin --delete <branch_name>  ## delete remote branch
git checkout -b localbranchname origin/remotebrachname  ## make local version of remote branch with tracking
git reset HEAD~  ## undo commit
git reset --hard HEAD^  ## undo local commit
git checkout -b newbranch SHAa9c146a09505837ec03b  ## create a new branch from a previous commit

$ git tag -a v1.4 -m "my version 1.4"  ## create a tag (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging) 
$ git checkout -b version2 v2.0.0  ## you can create a new branch at a specific tag with git checkout -b [branchname] [tagname]:
## Switched to a new branch 'version2'

git log --graph --decorate --oneline  ## show chart of branching
git branch --merged master lists branches merged into master
git branch --merged lists branches merged into HEAD (i.e. tip of current branch)
git branch --no-merged lists branches that have not been merged
By default this applies to only the local branches. The -a flag will show both local and remote branches, and the -r flag shows only the remote branches.

git remote set-url origin <repo> ## change remote to new repo