If you have heard about git and wished that you had a quick glimpse of cheat codes of it then here it is for you.
Here I am listing some commands which you might use daily when working with git.
1) How to change the current username and email
git config --global user.name [Your username]
git config --global user.email [Your email]
For detailed info: git config -help
2) How to clone an existing project
Go to the repo and click on 'clone or download' and copy the link of repo
Move into the directory in which you have to clone the repo
git init // Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one
git clone 'https://github.com/gitrepo/repo.git' //Clone a repository into a new directory
3) How to list all branches
git branch // list all branches of the local repo. Branch with asterisk denotes current branch
git branch -a // list all branches of the local and remote repo
For detailed info: git branch -help
4) How to switch to another branch
git checkout [branch name] //switches to the desired branch of your repository
For detailed info: git checkout -help
5) How to add files to staging state
git add . //adds all changed files to the staging state
git add [file 1] [ file 2] ... [file n] //adds multiple files to staging
For detailed info: git add -help
6) How to commit staged files
git commit -m [commit message]
For detailed info: git commit -help
7) How to push changes to repo
git push
For detailed info: git push -help
8) How to save changes temporarily and retrieve afterwards
git stash // all uncommitted local changes have been saved
git stash pop // The "pop" flag will reapply the last saved state
For detailed info: git stash -help
9) How to create a new branch and push it to remote
git checkout master // checkout to the master branch
git pull // pulls the latest change from the master if any
git checkout -b [branch name] // creates a branch locally
git push -u origin [branch name] // pushes the branch to remote
10) How to delete branch locally and remotely
Note:If you are in the branch which you want to delete then checkout to another branch
git branch -d [branch name] // deleted branch locally
git push origin --delete [branch name] deletes the branch of remote
11) How to rename branches locally and remotely
git branch -m [old-name] [new-name] // renames branch locally
git push origin: [old-name] [new-name] // renames the branch of remote
12) How to upload your local project to remote
Go to the root of the project folder
git init
git add .
git commit -m "commit message"
git remote add origin [url]
git push -u origin master
Please ignore any typo and suggestions are welcomed to make this a better post.
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