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Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/arslanbilal/git-cheat-sheet
Owner: arslanbilal
Created: 2014-07-22T14:00:21.000Z (over 11 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2025-07-08T09:16:11.000Z (8 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-25T05:40:08.753Z (about 1 month ago)
Topics: cheatsheet, git, git-flow, github
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- Readme: README.md

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README

# Git and Git Flow Cheat Sheet
[![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

---

## 📖 About

This comprehensive Git cheat sheet helps you master Git commands without memorizing everything. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this guide provides quick reference to essential Git operations.

**Contributions Welcome!** Feel free to:
- Fix grammar mistakes
- Add new commands
- Translate to your language
- Improve explanations

---
## 📋 Table of Contents

- [🔧 Setup](#-setup)
- [⚙️ Configuration Files](#️-configuration-files)
- [🆕 Create Repository](#-create-repository)
- [📝 Local Changes](#-local-changes)
- [🔍 Search](#-search)
- [📖 Commit History](#-commit-history)
- [📁 Move / Rename](#-move--rename)
- [🌿 Branches & Tags](#-branches--tags)
- [🔄 Update & Publish](#-update--publish)
- [🔀 Merge & Rebase](#-merge--rebase)
- [↩️ Undo](#️-undo)
- [🌊 Git Flow](#-git-flow)
- [🌍 Other Languages](#-other-languages)

---

## 🔧 Setup

### View Configuration

**Show current configuration:**
```bash
git config --list
```

**Show repository configuration:**
```bash
git config --local --list
```

**Show global configuration:**
```bash
git config --global --list
```

**Show system configuration:**
```bash
git config --system --list
```

### User Configuration

**Set your name for version history:**
```bash
git config --global user.name "[firstname lastname]"
```

**Set your email address:**
```bash
git config --global user.email "[valid-email]"
```

### Display & Editor Settings

**Enable automatic command line coloring:**
```bash
git config --global color.ui auto
```

**Set global editor for commits:**
```bash
git config --global core.editor vi
```

---

## ⚙️ Configuration Files

| Scope | Location | Command Flag |
|-------|----------|--------------|
| **Repository** | `/.git/config` | `--local` |
| **User** | `~/.gitconfig` | `--global` |
| **System** | `/etc/gitconfig` | `--system` |

---

## 🆕 Create Repository

### Clone Existing Repository

**Via SSH:**
```bash
git clone ssh://user@domain.com/repo.git
```

**Via HTTPS:**
```bash
git clone https://domain.com/user/repo.git
```

### Initialize New Repository

**Create repository in current directory:**
```bash
git init
```

**Create repository in specific directory:**
```bash
git init
```

---

## 📝 Local Changes

### Check Status & Differences

**View working directory status:**
```bash
git status
```

**Show changes to tracked files:**
```bash
git diff
```

**Show changes in specific file:**
```bash
git diff
```

### Staging Changes

**Add all current changes:**
```bash
git add .
```

**Add specific files:**
```bash
git add
```

**Interactively add parts of a file:**
```bash
git add -p
```

### Committing Changes

**Commit all tracked file changes:**
```bash
git commit -a
```

**Commit staged changes:**
```bash
git commit
```

**Commit with message:**
```bash
git commit -m 'message here'
```

**Skip staging and commit with message:**
```bash
git commit -am 'message here'
```

**Commit with specific date:**
```bash
git commit --date="`date --date='n day ago'`" -am ""
```

### Modify Last Commit

> ⚠️ **Warning:** Don't amend published commits!

**Amend last commit:**
```bash
git commit -a --amend
```

**Amend without changing commit message:**
```bash
git commit --amend --no-edit
```

**Change committer date:**
```bash
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="date" git commit --amend
```

**Change author date:**
```bash
git commit --amend --date="date"
```

### Stashing Changes

**Save current changes temporarily:**
```bash
git stash
```

**Apply last stashed changes:**
```bash
git stash apply
```

**Apply specific stash:**
```bash
git stash apply stash@{stash_number}
```
> Use `git stash list` to see available stashes

**Remove last stash:**
```bash
git stash drop
```

**Move uncommitted changes to another branch:**
```bash
git stash
git checkout branch2
git stash pop
```

---

## 🔍 Search

### Text Search

**Search for text in all files:**
```bash
git grep "Hello"
```

**Search in specific version:**
```bash
git grep "Hello" v2.5
```

### Commit Search

**Find commits that introduced specific keyword:**
```bash
git log -S 'keyword'
```

**Search with regular expression:**
```bash
git log -S 'keyword' --pickaxe-regex
```

---

## 📖 Commit History

### Basic History

**Show all commits (detailed):**
```bash
git log
```

**Show commits (one line each):**
```bash
git log --oneline
```

**Show commits by specific author:**
```bash
git log --author="username"
```

**Show changes for specific file:**
```bash
git log -p
```

### Advanced History

**Compare branches:**
```bash
git log --oneline .. --left-right
```

**Show who changed what and when:**
```bash
git blame
```

### Reference Logs

**Show reference log:**
```bash
git reflog show
```

**Delete reference log:**
```bash
git reflog delete
```

---

## 📁 Move / Rename

**Rename a file:**
```bash
git mv Index.txt Index.html
```

---

## 🌿 Branches & Tags

### List Branches

**List local branches:**
```bash
git branch
```

**List all branches (local + remote):**
```bash
git branch -a
```

**List remote branches:**
```bash
git branch -r
```

**List merged branches:**
```bash
git branch --merged
```

### Switch & Create Branches

**Switch to existing branch:**
```bash
git checkout
```

**Create and switch to new branch:**
```bash
git checkout -b
```

**Switch to previous branch:**
```bash
git checkout -
```

**Create branch from existing branch:**
```bash
git checkout -b
```

**Create branch from specific commit:**
```bash
git checkout -b
```

**Create branch without switching:**
```bash
git branch
```

**Create tracking branch:**
```bash
git branch --track
```

### Branch Operations

**Checkout single file from different branch:**
```bash
git checkout --
```

**Apply specific commit from another branch:**
```bash
git cherry-pick
```

**Rename current branch:**
```bash
git branch -m
```

**Delete local branch:**
```bash
git branch -d
```

**Force delete local branch:**
```bash
git branch -D
```
> ⚠️ **Warning:** You will lose unmerged changes!

### Tags

**Create tag at HEAD:**
```bash
git tag
```

**Create annotated tag:**
```bash
git tag -a
```

**Create tag with message:**
```bash
git tag -am 'message here'
```

**List all tags:**
```bash
git tag
```

**List tags with messages:**
```bash
git tag -n
```

---

## 🔄 Update & Publish

### Remote Management

**List configured remotes:**
```bash
git remote -v
```

**Show remote information:**
```bash
git remote show
```

**Add new remote:**
```bash
git remote add
```

**Rename remote:**
```bash
git remote rename
```

**Remove remote:**
```bash
git remote rm
```
> ℹ️ **Note:** This only removes the remote reference locally, not the remote repository itself.

### Fetch & Pull

**Download changes without merging:**
```bash
git fetch
```

**Download and merge changes:**
```bash
git pull
```

**Get changes from main branch:**
```bash
git pull origin master
```

**Pull with rebase:**
```bash
git pull --rebase
```

### Push & Publish

**Publish local changes:**
```bash
git push
```

**Delete remote branch:**
```bash
# Git v1.7.0+
git push --delete

# Git v1.5.0+
git push :
```

**Publish tags:**
```bash
git push --tags
```

---

## 🔀 Merge & Rebase

### Merge Operations

**Merge branch into current HEAD:**
```bash
git merge
```

**Configure merge tool globally:**
```bash
git config --global merge.tool meld
```

**Use configured merge tool:**
```bash
git mergetool
```

### Rebase Operations

> ⚠️ **Warning:** Don't rebase published commits!

**Rebase current HEAD onto branch:**
```bash
git rebase
```

**Abort rebase:**
```bash
git rebase --abort
```

**Continue rebase after resolving conflicts:**
```bash
git rebase --continue
```

### Conflict Resolution

**Mark file as resolved:**
```bash
git add
```

**Remove resolved file:**
```bash
git rm
```

### Squashing Commits

**Interactive rebase for squashing:**
```bash
git rebase -i
```

**Example squash configuration:**
```
# Before
pick
pick
pick

# After (squash commit_id2 and commit_id3 into commit_id)
pick
squash
squash
```

---

## ↩️ Undo

### Discard Changes

**Discard all local changes:**
```bash
git reset --hard HEAD
```

**Unstage all files:**
```bash
git reset HEAD
```

**Discard changes in specific file:**
```bash
git checkout HEAD
```

### Reset Operations

**Reset to previous commit (discard all changes):**
```bash
git reset --hard
```

**Reset to remote branch state:**
```bash
git reset --hard
# Example: git reset --hard upstream/master
```

**Reset preserving changes as unstaged:**
```bash
git reset
```

**Reset preserving uncommitted local changes:**
```bash
git reset --keep
```

### Revert Commits

**Revert commit (create new commit with opposite changes):**
```bash
git revert
```

### Clean Ignored Files

**Remove accidentally committed files that should be ignored:**
```bash
git rm -r --cached .
git add .
git commit -m "remove ignored files"
```

---

## 🌊 Git Flow

**Improved Git-flow:** [git-flow-avh](https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh)

### 📋 Table of Contents
- [🔧 Setup](#setup-1)
- [🚀 Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [✨ Features](#features)
- [🎁 Make a Release](#make-a-release)
- [🔥 Hotfixes](#hotfixes)
- [📊 Commands Overview](#commands-overview)

---

### 🔧 Setup {#setup-1}

> **Prerequisite:** Working Git installation required. Git-flow works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

**macOS (Homebrew):**
```bash
brew install git-flow-avh
```

**macOS (MacPorts):**
```bash
port install git-flow
```

**Linux (Debian-based):**
```bash
sudo apt-get install git-flow
```

**Windows (Cygwin):**
> Requires wget and util-linux
```bash
wget -q -O - --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow/develop/contrib/gitflow-installer.sh install | bash
```

---

### 🚀 Getting Started

Git-flow needs initialization to customize your project setup.

**Initialize (interactive):**
```bash
git flow init
```
> You'll answer questions about branch naming conventions. Default values are recommended.

**Initialize (use defaults):**
```bash
git flow init -d
```

---

### ✨ Features

Features are for developing new functionality for upcoming releases. They typically exist only in developer repositories.

**Start new feature:**
```bash
git flow feature start MYFEATURE
```
> Creates feature branch based on 'develop' and switches to it

**Finish feature:**
```bash
git flow feature finish MYFEATURE
```
> This will:
> 1. Merge MYFEATURE into 'develop'
> 2. Remove the feature branch
> 3. Switch back to 'develop'

**Publish feature (for collaboration):**
```bash
git flow feature publish MYFEATURE
```

**Get published feature:**
```bash
git flow feature pull origin MYFEATURE
```

**Track origin feature:**
```bash
git flow feature track MYFEATURE
```

---

### 🎁 Make a Release

Releases support preparation of new production releases, allowing minor bug fixes and preparing meta-data.

**Start release:**
```bash
git flow release start RELEASE [BASE]
```
> Creates release branch from 'develop'. Optionally specify [BASE] commit SHA-1.

**Publish release:**
```bash
git flow release publish RELEASE
```

**Track remote release:**
```bash
git flow release track RELEASE
```

**Finish release:**
```bash
git flow release finish RELEASE
```
> This will:
> 1. Merge release branch into 'master'
> 2. Tag the release
> 3. Back-merge release into 'develop'
> 4. Remove release branch

> 💡 **Don't forget:** Push your tags with `git push --tags`

---

### 🔥 Hotfixes

Hotfixes address critical issues in live production versions. They branch off from the corresponding tag on master.

**Start hotfix:**
```bash
git flow hotfix start VERSION [BASENAME]
```

**Finish hotfix:**
```bash
git flow hotfix finish VERSION
```
> Merges back into both 'develop' and 'master', and tags the master merge

---

### 📊 Commands Overview

Git Flow Commands

### 🌊 Git Flow Schema

Git Flow Schema

---

## 🌍 Other Languages

This cheat sheet is available in multiple languages:

| Language | Link |
|----------|------|
| 🇸🇦 Arabic | [git-cheat-sheet-ar.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-ar.md) |
| 🇧🇩 Bengali | [git-cheat-sheet-bn.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-bn.md) |
| 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese | [git-cheat-sheet-pt_BR.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-pt_BR.md) |
| 🇨🇳 Chinese | [git-cheat-sheet-zh.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-zh.md) |
| 🇩🇪 German | [git-cheat-sheet-de.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-de.md) |
| 🇬🇷 Greek | [git-cheat-sheet-el.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-el.md) |
| 🇮🇳 Hindi | [git-cheat-sheet-hi.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-hi.md) |
| 🇰🇷 Korean | [git-cheat-sheet-ko.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-ko.md) |
| 🇵🇱 Polish | [git-cheat-sheet-pl.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-pl.md) |
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | [git-cheat-sheet-es.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-es.md) |
| 🇹🇷 Turkish | [git-cheat-sheet-tr.md](./other-sheets/git-cheat-sheet-tr.md) |

---

## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! You can:

- 🐛 Report bugs or typos
- ✨ Add new Git commands
- 🌍 Translate to new languages
- 💡 Improve explanations
- 📝 Enhance formatting

**How to contribute:**
1. Fork this repository
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin feature/AmazingFeature`)
5. Open a Pull Request

---

## 📄 License

This project is open source and available under the [MIT License](LICENSE).

---

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