nitin025 / gitcheatsheet

This repository, created for contribution to HacktoberFest 2019, is a collection of useful Git commands. Open a pull request so that you too can add Git Commands.

GitCheatSheet

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Usage of command - Command on Git Bash (Optional Description)

Git Installation On Linux OS - sudo apt install git-all

Configuring Username And EMail Id:-

git config --global user.name "John Doe"

git config --global user.email [email protected]

Check Configuartion Settings - git config --list

Checking Specific Configurations - git config user.name

Initializing A Git Repository - git init

Add Files to the staging area - git add

Adding a particular file - git add fileName followed by extension

Cloning a repository from GitHub - git clone https://github.com/userName/repoName

If you want the repository to be named something else on your local computer,

git clone https://github.com/userName/repoName repoNameOnYourSystem

Checking the status of the repository - git status

Adding a .gitignore file ignores certain file extensions for tracking

Ignore all .a files - *.a

Track lib.a, even though you're ignoring .a files above - !lib.a

Only ignore the TODO file in the current directory, not subdir/TODO - /TODO

Ignore all files in any directory named build - build/

Ignore doc/notes.txt, but not doc/server/arch.txt - doc/*.txt

See the differences between the edits - git diff

Difference in files after the staging process - git diff --staged

Commiting a file - git commit -m "Type in your commit"

Committing and staging the file in one command - git commit -a -m "Type in your commit"

Staging the removal of a file - git rm <fileName>

Staging the renaming of a file - git mv <oldFileName> <newFileName>

Viewing the Commit History of A Dierectory - git log

To view the changes in the file in the commit history - git log -p

To view the last n changes only - git log -n

To view the statistics of each commit change - git log -stat

Amending a commit - git commit --amend (Effectively, this is as if the previous commit never occured)

Unstaging a file - git reset HEAD <fileName>

Unmodifying a modified file - git checkout --<fileName>

Listing the name of your remote repository - git remote -v

Adding a remote - git remote add <remoteName> <repositoryURL>

Fetching from a remote - git fetch <remoteName>

Fetching and merging at the same time - git pull <remoteName>

Pushing to a remote server - git push <remoteName> <branchName>

Get information about a remote branch - git remote show <remoteName>

Renaming a remote server - git remote rename <oldName> <newName>

Removing a remote server - git remote remove <remoteName>

Creates new branch - git branch [branch_name]

Switches to existing branch - git checkout [branch_name]

Creates and switches new branch - git checkout -b [branch_name]]

Delete fully merged branch - git branch -d [branch_name]

Delete branch (even if not merged) - git branch -D [branch_name]

Rename the current branch name to new branch name - git branch -m [new_branch_name]

Merges other branch specified to current branch - git merge [branch_name]