This note is from Corey Schafer’s Youtube Git Tutorial.
A viewer posted the note under the video and I copied it as a starting point for this post.
I will add more contents to this post over time.
On initial install:
git --version
checks the version of the installed locally git
git config --global user.name “Your Name”
sets up the name of the user
git config --global user.email “user@email.com”
sets email
git config --list
lists configurations
For help on commands:
git <verb> --help
help info
git help <verb> (e.g. git help config)
alternative help command
For initializing the project:
git init
initializes the git repo in the current folder
touch .gitignore
creates a git ignore file
git status
check working tree - both on the git and on local
Add and remove from staging area:
git add -A
adds all files to staging area
git reset <file>
removes file in staging area
Make a commit:
git commit -m “commit message”
-m is for message
Check log:
git log
renders commit ids, authors, dates
Discard changes in working dir:
git reset --hard
discard changes in all files. If you accidently delete some files, the
command will bring them back.
Clone a remote repo:
git clone <url><dir>
clone a repo from url to dir
View info about the repo:
git remote -v
lists info about the repo
git branch -a
lists all branches
View changes:
git diff
shows the difference
Pull and push:
git pull origin master
pull before push
git push origin master
origin is remote repo, master is the branch
First time to push a branch:
git push -u origin <branch name>
-u has special meaning
git branch <branch name>
create a branch:
git checkout <branch name>
checkout a branch
git checkout master
switch to master
Merge a branch:
git pull origin master
pull from origin
git branch --merged
see which branches are merged
git merge <name of the branch to merge>
merge a branch onto current one
git push origin master
push to upstream
Delete a branch:
git branch -d <name of the branch>
this deletes branch locally
git branch -a
check repo branches
git push origin --delete <name of the branch>
this deletes branch from remote repo
Have a local project, push it to github
Create a github repo without readme.md, .gitignore, and license files. Then run
below commands.
git init
git add -A
git status
git commit -m “first commit”
git remote add origin <repo addr>
git remote -v
git push origin master
Push your repo to a central server in a bare repo
This blog post
has detailed steps. The important step is to run this command after you create the central repo.
git --bare init
run this command for the central repo before pushing
Remove files from staging area
This is the command to unstage all files from staging area according to this
stackoverflow answer.