https://github.com/xenioushk/useful-git-commands
This documentation provides a quick setup process of Git and a few useful commands.
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This documentation provides a quick setup process of Git and a few useful commands.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/xenioushk/useful-git-commands
- Owner: xenioushk
- Created: 2021-11-11T00:59:33.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-12T18:58:10.000Z (8 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-12T19:39:40.373Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: git-commands, git-tutorials, github, github-config
- Homepage: https://bluewindlab.net/useful-git-commands-that-you-should-know/
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- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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# Useful & Frequently Used git Commands
This documentation provides a quick setup process of Git and a few useful commands.
## ✅ Git application setup
- Download git application from https://git-scm.com
- Install it on your computer.
- Open the terminal (Mac) or Poweshell (Windows).
- Once done, run the following command to check the git version.
```bash
git --version
```
or
```bash
git -v
```
**👉 Output**
## ✅ Setup git user name and email
The following commands allow you to set username and email address globally. 🤗
```bash
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "Your Email"
```
You can also set specific username and email address for your current project. 💪
```bash
git config user.name "Your Name"
git config user.email "Your Email"
```
### 👉 Validate/Check user information
```bash
git config --global user.name
git config --global user.email
```
### 👉 Initalize a git repository
The following command allows you to initialize a fresh local git repository to your project.
```bash
git init
```
### 👉 Check git status
The following command will display the current status of the added/updated/deleted files.
```bash
git status
```
### 👉 git push & pull commands
```bash
git add -A
git commit -m "your_custom_commit_message_in_here"
git commit -am "your custom_commit_message_in_here"
git remote add origin "git_remote_repository_url"
//set upstream. (rename the remote from origin to upstream)
git remote rename origin upstream
// Using -u, you can set the upstream branch for the current branch. e.g main
git push -u origin main
// Pull any changes from remote main branch
git pull origin main
git clone "git_remote_repository_url"
git reset "index.html"
// Check current origin
git remote -v
//Set a new origin.
git remote set-url origin "git_remote_repository_url"
```
## ✅ Git branch commands
1. List of all branches.
```bash
git branch -a
```
2. Show current branch.
```bash
git branch --show-current
```
3. Create a new branch and switch to that branch
```bash
git checkout -b "new_branch_name"
```
4. Rename current branch.
```bash
git branch -m "new_renamed_branch_name"
```
5. Delete a branch. (locally)
```bash
git branch -d "deleted_branch_name"
```
6. Delete a branch. (remote)
```bash
git push origin -d ""
```
7. Switch to a branch.
```bash
git checkout "branch_name"
```
8. Merge a branch.
```bash
git merge "branch_name"
```
## ✅ Git tag commands.
Using git tag commands you can easiliy mark stable version of a project. It creates an image of your git repository. To tag a branch, you need to checkout a stable branch. e.g `main`
```bash
git checkout branch "main"
git tag v1.0
```
### Add message to the tag
```bash
git tag -a v1.0 -m "this is a stable 1.0 version of my project"
```
### Show all the tags
```bash
git tag
```
### Push a tag
```bash
git push origin v1.0
```
### Push multiple tag
```bash
git push origin v1.0 v1.1
```
### Push all tags
```bash
git push --tags
```
### Delete a tag (local)
```bash
git tag -d v1.0
```
### Delete multiple tag (local)
```bash
git tag -d v1.0 v1.1
```
### Delete a tag (remote)
```bash
git push origin -d v1.0
```
## ✅ Git commit log
Using the following commands, you can check all previous commits hash, commits date, author.
### Check all logs
```bash
git log
```
### Last 3 git logs
```bash
git log -3
```
**Output**
## git logs in graphical mode
```bash
git log --graph
```
**Output**
## git logs in oneline mode
```bash
git log --oneline
```
**Output**
## Fix fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories issue
- Run the following command. (Check origin name, for mine it's the main)
```bash
git pull origin main --allow-unrelated-histories
```
- After running this code a popup window will appear. Press 'wq' from keyboard.
- It's done. Now you can push your code to the remote repository.
## Remove a file/folder from git tracking
```bash
git rm -r --cached 'FOLDER_NAME'
```
## Update last git commit message.
If you accidentally added a Git commit message or would like to update the last Git commit message, then use the following command:
```bash
git commit --amend -m "Updated commit message"
```
### Bonus Commands For Mac
1. Create a new directory
```bash
mkdir YOUR_DIR_NAME
```
2. Create an empty file.
```bash
touch YOUR_FILE_NAME
```
3. Read A File.
```bash
cat YOUR_FILE_NAME
```
## Bonus Commands For Windows
1. Create a directory
```bash
mkdir YOUR_DIR_NAME
```
2. List of folder and files in a directory.
```bash
ls YOUR_DIR_NAME
```
3. Create an empty file.
```bash
echo YOUR_FILE_NAME
```
## Acknowledgement
- Md Mahbub Alam Khan
- [bluewindlab.net](https://bluewindlab.net)