Sonikm / Git-cheat-sheet

Git and GitHub command cheat sheet

What is Git?

A distributed version control system is a system that helps you keep track of changes you've made to files in your project, and it is exist locally on your system.

• Track the history of files
• Tracking code changes
• Tracking who made changes
• Coding collaboration

What is GitHub?

Git is not the same as GitHub, GitHub is a company that let's you host your file using git.

Setup

Configure your user name

 $ git config --global user.name "[your_name]"

Configure the user email address

 $ git config --global user.email "[your_email_Id]"

Git configuration and files

Check list of information about your git configuration

 $ git config -l

Show list of files

 $ git ls

initialize

Creating a local repository

 $ git init

diff, status

Display the differences of changed files

$ git diff

Show modified files in working directory

$ git status

add

Add a file to the staging area in Git

$ git add [filename]

Add all files in the staging area

$ git add .

This command opens a prompt and asks if you want to stage changes or not

$ git add -p

commit

Commit files that have been added to the index

$ git commit

Commit a file with the commit message

$ git commit -m "[comment]"

log and show

See the commit history

$ git log

Display the latest commit content

$ git show

reset and remove

Unstage a file

$ git reset [file_name]

Remove tracked files from the current working tree

$ git rm filename

branch

Create branches

$ git branch [branch_name]

Display a list of branch

$ git branch

Display all branches

$ git branch -a

Display the remote branch

$ git branch -r

Delete the branch

$ git branch -d [branch_name]

Branch and merge

Switch the branch

$ git checkout [branch_name]

Switching to create a branch

$ git checkout -b [branch_name]

Check all chenges in branches

$ git log --all

Merge the branch

$ git merge [branch_name]

remote and push

Check remote name

$ git remote

Adds a remote repository to your local repository

$ git remote add origin https://repo_here

Submit to commit the local repository to the remote repository

$ git push [remote_name] [branch_name]

Submit to commit the master of the local repository to the master of the remote repository

$ git push origin master

See all remote repository for your local repository

$ git repository -v

Get more info about a remote repository

$ git remote show origin

Push all save changes to the remote repository

$ git push

Remove remote origin from a git repository

$ git remote remove origin

clone

Copy the project from the remote repository

$ git clone [repository_path]

Copy the project by specifying the name of the directory you want to create

$ git clone [repository_path] [new repository_path]

Change the current working directory

$ cd [new repository_path]

Save all changes to the remote repository

$ git push

fetch and merge

Fetch down all the branches from that Git remote

$ git fetch origin

Merge a remote branch into your current branch to bring it up to date

$ git merge origin/master

Push all the changes on remote repository

$ git push origin master

pull

Fetch and merge any commits from the tracking remote branch

$ git pull origin BRANCH_NAME

Checking out pull requests locally

Fetch the reference to the pull request based on its ID number

$ git fetch origin pull/ID/head:BRANCH_NAME

Switch to the new branch that's based on this pull request:

$ git checkout BRANCH_NAME

cherry-pick

Copy the commit of another branch to the current branch

$ git cherry-pick [commit id]

Checking out pull requests locally

Fetch the reference to the pull request based on its ID number

$ git fetch origin pull/ID/head:BRANCH_NAME

Switch to the new branch that's based on this pull request:

$ git checkout BRANCH_NAME

browse, open

Open a page of the project of GitHub

$ git browse

$ open https://github.com/USER_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME

Open a page of the issues of the project of GitHub

$ git browse -- issues

$ open https://github.com/USER_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/issues

Opening the wiki pages of the project of GitHub

$ git browse -- wiki

$ open https://github.com/USER_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/wiki