https://github.com/arjunu/git-cheatsheet

https://github.com/arjunu/git-cheatsheet

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arjunu/git-cheatsheet
• Owner: arjunu
• Created: 2016-04-19T08:55:21.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-09-16T09:44:43.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
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# Git Cheatsheet

? - indicates optional arguments 


Dangerous commands are marked with :warning:

## Configure

- Set username 


`$ git config --global user.name ""`

- Set email 


`$ git config --global user.email ""`

:information_source: Drop `--global` option to set local (repo specific) config.

## Create/Clone

- Create new local repo 


`$ git init `

- Clone existing  


`$ git clone ` 


- Create from existing code  


`$ git init` 


Add files & commit 


`$ git remote add origin ` 


`$ git push origin master` 


## Local Changes

- Add all changes for next commit 


`$ git add .` 


- List all new & modified files to be committed 


`$ git status` 


- Show unstaged changes 


`$ git diff` 


- Commit 


`$ git commit -m ""` 


## Update

- Fetch 


`$ git fetch` 


- Pull (fetch & merge) 


`$ git pull` 


- Push 


`$ git push  ` 


## Branches

- Get current branch name 


`$ git branch | grep \* | cut -d ' ' -f2`

- List all existing branches 


`$ git branch -av` 


- Create new branch 


`$ git branch ` 


- Switch to branch 


`$ git checkout ` 


- Carry changes to a new branch 


`$ git checkout -b ` 


- Merge specified branch into current branch 


`$ git merge ` 


- Delete branch 


`$ git branch -d ` 


- Delete unmerged branch 


`$ git branch -D ` :warning: 
 

- Rename branch 


`$ git branch -m ` # Rename current branch 


`$ git branch -m  ` # Rename another branch 


- Rename remote branch (after above step) [2] 


`$ git push origin :old_branch`                 # Delete the old branch 


`$ git push --set-upstream origin new_branch`   # Push the new branch, set local branch 


- Reset branch w.r.t. master

`$ git reset $(git merge-base master )`

## Remotes

- Show all remotes 


`$ git remote -v` 


- Add remote 


`$ git remote add  ` 


- Show remote information 


`$ git remote show ` 


- Rename remote shortname 


`$ git remote rename  ` 


## Removing Files

- Delete file from working directory and stage the deletion 


`$ git rm ` 


- Remove file from version control but preserve it locally 


`$ git rm --cached ` 


## History

- Show all commits in reverse chronological order 


`$ git log` 


## Undoing

- Remove uncommitted changes 


`$ git checkout .` :warning: # use -f for force 


- Change last commit 


`$ git commit --amend` 


- Undo last local commit [1] 


`$ git reset --soft HEAD~` # soft -- keep your changes


`$ git reset --hard HEAD^` # hard -- discard changes


- Undo last published commit [1] 


`$ git revert HEAD` 


- Unstage a file 


`$ git reset HEAD ` 


- Unmodify a file 


`$ git checkout -- ` :warning:


- Remove untracked files 


`$ git clean -f` :warning:


- Remove untracked directories 


`$ git clean -d` :warning:


- Reset branch to remote  


`$ git reset --hard origin/`

## Tags

- Create tag 


`$ git tag -a  -m ""` 

- Push all tags 


`$ git push origin --tags`

## Cleanup

- Delete all local branches that no longer have a remote :warning: 


`$ git branch -r | awk '{print $1}' | egrep -v -f /dev/fd/0 <(git branch -vv | grep origin) | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -d`

## Glossary

#### Files

- **Commited:** data is safely stored in your local database

 

- **Modified:** you have changed the file but have not committed it to your database yet

 

- **Staged:** you have marked a modified file in its current version to go into your next commit snapshot

- **Tracked:** are files that were in the last snapshot; they can be unmodified, modified, or staged 

 

- **Untracked:** files are everything else – any files in your working directory that were not in your last snapshot and are not in your staging area

 

#### Repository

- **Remote:** Remote repositories are versions of your project that are hosted on the Internet or network somewhere

 

- **Origin:** Default name Git gives to the server you cloned from

#### Branches

- **master:** name given to default branch.

 

- **HEAD:** pointer to current branch.

- **fast-forward:** is a type of merge. When you try to merge one commit with a commit that can be reached by following the first commit’s history, Git simplifies things by moving the pointer forward because there is no divergent work to merge together.

- **Remote tracking branches:** are references to the state of remote branches. They act as bookmarks to remind you where the branches in your remote repositories were the last time you connected to them.

- **Rebase:** another type of integrating changes (the other one being `merge`) from one branch into another by taking all the changes that were committed on one branch and replaying them on another.

## Sources

- [1]: Undo a commit and redo http://stackoverflow.com/a/927386/2251156

- [2]: Updating your local branch's tracking reference to the new remote http://stackoverflow.com/a/16220970/2251156