Cheatsheet for git

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This will be the reference doc for some of most common git command used for software development.

Create Git Repositories

  • git init – used to initialize new repositories
  • git clone url – Used to clone existing git repositories from URL

Observe Changes

  • git status – Used to check the current changes in working directory
  • git diff filename – Used to get the difference/changes between files

Logging

  • git log – Used to get details logs for current branch
  • git log –oneline – used to get compact log in oneline for each commit

Adding Commit

  • git add filename/directory name – used to add file/directory to satging area, so that it can be commited.
  • git commit -m “message” – used to push the commit to local repositories from staging area

Push/Pull Changes

  • git push – used to push you local commit to remote repositories
  • git pull – used to pull changes from remote repositories to local repositories and merge if any changes available
  • git fetch – used to fetch the changes from remote repositories to local repositories(but do not merge it like git pull)

Change Integration

  • git merge – used to merge two branches and keeping all the commits(by default)
  • git merge –squash – used to merge two branch and only creates the single commit message and ignores other commit message.
  • git rebase – used go rebase the source branch(current branch) and merge changes if available any.

Branches

  • git branch – list all available branches
  • git branch new_branch– used to create new branch from current branch
  • git branch -d/-D branch_name – used to delete branch from local repositories
  • git checkout branch_name – used to switch between branches.
  • git checkout -b new_branch – used to create branch and checkout to newly created branch

When mistakes are made

  • git revert – Used to revert any changes pushed to remote repositories by created a new revert commit(Recommended when reverting any changes to public branch/repositories).
  • git reset – Used to reset or delete the commit pushed to the remote repositories.

Thanks for reading…

Published by Ashish Maurya

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