AnshulRiyal / developer_babySteps

Things Every Developer Must Know:

Github useful commands

Clone/Download a repo: 

git clone <repo-https-url>

Clone single branch only:

git clone <repo-url> --branch <branch-name> --single-branch

See local changes: 

git status

Add changed files: 

git add <filename1> <filename2> <filename3>

Add all changed files: 

git add .

Commit changes: 

git commit -m “<explain your commit>”

Push local changes: 

git push origin <branch_name>

Pull server changes: 

git pull origin <branch_name>

Get new branches and codes:

git fetch

Create new branch:

git branch <branch_name>

Create new branch with current changes:

git checkout -b <branch_name>

Switch between branches: 

git checkout <new_branch_name>

Switch to any commit:

git reset --hard <commit-number>

Remove untracked files:

git clean -f -d

Reset .gitignore file changes:

git rm -r --cached . git add . git commit -m ".gitignore updated"

Remove all local branches that are not on remote

git branch --merged master | grep -v '^[ *]*master$' | xargs git branch -d

Commit deleted files only

git add -u

Revert Local Commit:

git reset HEAD~1

Git global setup

git config --global user.name "[e-mail]"
 git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"

To check remote:

Git remote -v OUTPUT:

origin https://github.com/AnshulRiyal/developer_baby.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/AnshulRiyal/developer_baby.git (push)

To remane remote origin URL:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/AnshulRiyal/developer_babySteps.git OUTPUT:

origin https://github.com/AnshulRiyal/developer_babySteps.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/AnshulRiyal/developer_babySteps.git (push)

To remove git remote:

git remote remove <name> => Where name is origin in above output.

Remove Git tracking from a project:

Open a terminal and navigate to the directory of your project, i.e. - cd path_to_your_project. Run this command: rm -rf .git*

Linux Commands:

List all files in a long listing (detailed) format

ls -al

Display the present working directory

pwd

Create a directory

mkdir directory

Remove (delete) file

rm file

Remove the directory and its contents recursively

rm -r directory

Force removal of file without prompting for confirmation

rm -f file

Forcefully remove directory recursively

rm -rf directory

Copy file1 to file2

cp file1 file2

Copy source_directory recursively to destination. If destination exists, copy source_directory into destination, otherwise create destination with the contents of source_directory.

cp -r source_directory destination

Rename or move file1 to file2. If file2 is an existing directory, move file1 into directory file2

mv file1 file2

Create symbolic link to linkname

ln -s /path/to/file linkname

View the contents of file

cat file