huangyxi / git-cmds

Useful Commands for Git

Commands for Git on Bash

Fundamental Concepts

• directory
• workplace
• stage
• (local) repository
• remote (repository)

Preparation

• ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[e-mail]" generate ssh key

• git config --global user.name Mark set global user name

• git config --global user.email [e-mail] set global user email

• git init initialize (create) workplace at current working directory

• git config --global credential.helper store save GitHub account and password after inputting permanently

• git remote add origin https://github.com/Markhng/git-test add remote (repository) named "origin"

• git config --local commit.gpgsign true set GPG-sign as default

Commonness

• git add . add all files in the current working directory to stage

• git commit [-a] -m "note" commit all files from stage to (local) repository with note. [-a] means commit all files from workplace to repository directly

• git push [remote-name] [branch-name] push all files from stage to branch of remote

• git rm -r --cached file.ext untrack file.ext after

• git rm -r --cached .;git add .;git commit -m 'update .gitignore' reload stage while .gitignore not work

Advanced Operations

• git log --stat show the brief log (changes of lines)

• git reset HEAD~1 undo last operation

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git \
rm --cached --ignore-unmatch SECURE.txt' \
--prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

remove SECURE file completely

FAQ

$ git pull origin
You asked to pull from the remote 'origin', but did not specify
a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote
for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
$ git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories