Useful git command and configuration.

git-cli-config.md

Useful git Command and Configuration

Simple cheatsheet

Clone, init, add, commit

• If clone $ git clone [url]
• Initialize directory $ git init
• Add files $ git add . will add current directory
• To commit use $ git commit -m"[commit message]"
• Add and commit $ git commit -am "[commit message]"

Collaborate

• Show remote -details $git remote -v

To globally ignore specific folder file type

Example : Ignore .DS_Store, .vscode and vendor globally

• Create global gitignore somewhere eg: ~/.gitignore_global
• Insert ignored pattern in that file
• Set git to globally use the file

$ touch ~/.gitignore_global
$ echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore_global
$ echo .vscode >> ~/.gitignore_global
$ echo vendor >> ~/.gitignore_global
$ git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global

Reference :

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18393498/gitignore-all-the-ds-store-files-in-every-folder-and-subfolder
• https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/

References

• Github git cheatsheet https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/