| 1 | Git Cheat Sheet by Nathan (I definitely didn't copy and paste this from some guy's blog or anything (°¿°) |
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| 3 | Configure |
| 4 | git config –global user.name "[name]" |
| 5 | Sets the name you want attached to your commit transactions |
| 6 | git config –global user.email "[email address]" |
| 7 | Sets the email you want attached to your commit transactions |
| 8 | git config –global color.ui auto |
| 9 | Enables helpful colorization of command line output |
| 10 | git config –global push.default current |
| 11 | Update a branch with the same name as current branch if no refspec is given |
| 12 | git config –global core.editor [editor] |
| 13 | Which editor to use when commit and tag that lets you edit messages |
| 14 | git config –global diff.tool [tool] |
| 15 | Specify which command to invoke as the specified tool for git difftool |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Create repositories |
| 18 | git init [project-name] |
| 19 | Creates a new local repository with the specified name |
| 20 | git clone [url] |
| 21 | Downloads a project nd its entire version history |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Make changes |
| 24 | git status |
| 25 | Lists all new or modified files to be committed |
| 26 | git status -s |
| 27 | Short view of status |
| 28 | git diff |
| 29 | Shows file differences not yet staged |
| 30 | git add [file] |
| 31 | Snapshots the file in preparation for versioning |
| 32 | git add . |
| 33 | Add all modified files to be commited |
| 34 | git add '*.txt' |
| 35 | Add only certain files |
| 36 | git add –patch filename.x (or -p for short) |
| 37 | Snapshot only chunks of a file |
| 38 | git rm [file] |
| 39 | Tell git not to track the file anymore |
| 40 | git diff –staged |
| 41 | Show what has been added to the index via git add but not yet committed |
| 42 | git diff HEAD |
| 43 | Shows what has changed since the last commit. |
| 44 | git diff HEAD^ |
| 45 | Shows what has changed since the commit before the latest commit |
| 46 | git diff [branch] |
| 47 | Compare current branch to some other branch |
| 48 | git difftool -d |
| 49 | Same as diff, but opens changes via difftool that you have configured |
| 50 | git difftool -d master.. |
| 51 | See only changes made in the current branch |
| 52 | git diff –no-commit-id –name-only –no-merges origin/master… |
| 53 | See only the file names that has changed in current branch |
| 54 | git diff –stat |
| 55 | See statistics on what files have changed and how |
| 56 | git reset [file] |
| 57 | Unstages the file, but preserves its contents |
| 58 | git commit |
| 59 | Record changes to git. Default editor will open for a commit message |
| 60 | git commit -m "[descriptive message]" |
| 61 | Records file snapshots permanently in version history |
| 62 | git commit –amend |
| 63 | Changing the history, of the HEAD commit |
| 64 | |
| 65 | Group changes |
| 66 | git branch |
| 67 | Lists all local branches in the current directory |
| 68 | git branch [branch-name] |
| 69 | Create a new branch |
| 70 | git checkout [branch-name] |
| 71 | Switches to the specified branch and updates the working directory |
| 72 | git checkout -b <name> <remote>/<branch> |
| 73 | Switches to a remote branch |
| 74 | git checkout [filename] |
| 75 | Return file to it's previous version, if it hasn’t been staged yet |
| 76 | git merge [branch] |
| 77 | Combines the specified branch's history into the current branch |
| 78 | git merge –no–ff [branch] |
| 79 | Merge branch without fast forwarding |
| 80 | git branch -a |
| 81 | See the full list of local and remote branches |
| 82 | git branch -d [branch] |
| 83 | Deletes the specified branch |
| 84 | git branch -D [branch] |
| 85 | Hard branch delete, will not complain |
| 86 | git branch -m <oldname> <newname> |
| 87 | Rename a branch |
| 88 | |
| 89 | Refactor filenames |
| 90 | git rm [file] |
| 91 | Deletes the file from the working directory and stages the deletion |
| 92 | git rm –cached [file] |
| 93 | Removes the file from version control but preserves the file locally |
| 94 | git mv [file-original] [file-renamed] |
| 95 | Changes the file name and prepares it for commit |
| 96 | |
| 97 | Suppress tracking |
| 98 | .gitignore |
| 99 | *.log |
| 100 | build/ |
| 101 | temp-* |
| 102 | A text file named .gitignore suppresses accidental versioning of files and paths matching the specified patterns |
| 103 | git ls-files –other –ignored –exclude-standard |
| 104 | Lists all ignored files in this project |
| 105 | |
| 106 | Save fragments |
| 107 | git stash |
| 108 | Temporarily stores all modified tracked files |
| 109 | git stash pop |
| 110 | Restores the most recently stashed files |
| 111 | git stash list |
| 112 | Lists all stashed changesets |
| 113 | git stash drop |
| 114 | Discards the most recently stashed changeset |
| 115 | |
| 116 | Review history |
| 117 | git log |
| 118 | Lists version history for the current branch |
| 119 | git log –follow [file] |
| 120 | Lists version history for a file, including renames |
| 121 | git log –pretty=format:"%h %s" –graph |
| 122 | Pretty commit view, you can customize it as much as you want |
| 123 | git log –author='Name' –after={1.week.ago} –pretty=oneline –abbrev-commit |
| 124 | See what the author has worked on in the last week |
| 125 | git log –no-merges master.. |
| 126 | See only changes in this branch |
| 127 | git diff [file-branch]…[second-branch] |
| 128 | Shows content differences between two branches |
| 129 | git show [commit] |
| 130 | Outputs metadata and content changes of the specified commit |
| 131 | |
| 132 | Redo commits |
| 133 | git reset |
| 134 | Unstage pending changes, the changes will still remain on file system |
| 135 | git reset [commit/tag] |
| 136 | Undoes all commits after [commit], preserving changes locally |
| 137 | git reset –hard [commit] |
| 138 | Discards all history and changes back to the specified commit |
| 139 | |
| 140 | Synchronize changes |
| 141 | git fetch [bookmark] |
| 142 | Downloads all history from the repository bookmark |
| 143 | git fetch -p |
| 144 | Update history of remote branches, you can fetch and purge |
| 145 | git merge [bookmark]/[branch] |
| 146 | Combines bookmark's branch into current local branch |
| 147 | git push |
| 148 | Push current branch to remote branch |
| 149 | git push [remote] [branch] |
| 150 | Manually specify remote and branch to use every time |
| 151 | git push -u origin master |
| 152 | If a remote branch is not set up as an upstream, you can make it so |
| 153 | git pull |
| 154 | Downloads bookmark history and incorporates changes |
| 155 | git pull [remote] [branch] |
| 156 | Specify to pull a specific branch |
| 157 | git remote |
| 158 | See list of remote repos available |
| 159 | git remote -v |
| 160 | Detailed view of remote repos available |
| 161 | git remote add [remote] [url] |
| 162 | Add a new remote |