Git commands: A quick overview
How to Use Git Commands to Configure and Make Your Git Life Easier
This is a short introductory article for git commands.
Setup and Initialization
This command is used to initialize an existing folder as a git repo
git init
This is used to copy a git repo
git clone [URL]
Stage and Snapshot
Show modified files in the working directory that are staged for your next commit
git status
Add a file for your next commit
git add [fileName]
to add all files
git add .
unstaged a file while retaining the changes in the working directory
git reset [fileName]
check the difference between what is changed but not staged
git diff
check the difference between what is staged but not yet committed
git diff --staged
Commit staged content as a new commit snapshot
git commit -m "message"
Branch and Merge
List your branches. A * will appear next to the currently active branch
git branch
Create a new branch at the current commit
git branch [branch-name]
Switch to another branch and check it into your working directory
git checkout
merge the specified branch's history into the current one
git merge [branch]
show all the commits in the current branch's history
git log
Inspect and Compare
show the commits on BranchA that are not in BranchB
git log branchB..branchA
show the commit that changed file, even across renames
git log --follow [file]
show the diff of what is in BranchA that is not in BranchB
git diff branchB..branchA
show any object in Git in human readable format
git show [SHA]
Tracking Path Changes
Delete the files from project and stage the removal for commit
git rm [file]
change an existing file path and stage the move
git mv[existing-path][new-path]
show all commit logs with indication of any paths that moved
git log --state -M
Share and Update
add a git URL as an alias
git remote add [alias][URL]
fetch down all the branches from that git remote
git fetch [alias]
Merge a remote branch into your current branch to bring it up to date
git merge [alias]/[branch]
Transmit local branch commits to the remove repo branch
git push [alias][branch]
fetch and merge any commits from the tracking remote branch
git pull
Rewrite History
apply any commits of current branch ahead of specified one
git rebase [branch]
clear staging area, rewrite working tree from specified commit
git reset --hard[commit]
Temporary Commits
Save modified and staged changes
git stash
list the stack-order of stashed file changes
git stash list
write working from top of stash stack
git stash stop
discard the changes from the top of stash stack
git stash drop
This is pretty much all important git commands. I hope it helped. Thanks and Keep Learning!