syedrfurqanali / Git-Cheatsheet

A collection of most used git commands.

GitHub CheatSheet by RiyazAhamad(theriyazo)

Created: November 6, 2021 1:17 AM

Materials: src_1, src_2

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Git Commit History # :

💲 git log

• Going back to a commit #

  💲 git checkout < hash-code >

Most Used Git Commands

Rename master to main #

💲 git branch -m master main

Login credentials

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

List hidden files

💲 ls -a

Complete Log

💲 git log

• gives the <hashNumber> and details
• to exit git log → q or z

Logs changes

💲 git add < file >

Adding commit message

💲 git commit -m "< message >"

Logs commit

💲 git commit -m < file >

current tree status

💲 git status

vi editor

• enter vi

  💲 vi

• exit vi editor

  💲 [ESC] : x

Files

• To create file

  💲 touch < file >

• To look inside file

  💲 cat < file >

• Remove/Delete file

  💲 rm -rf < file >

Staging

• Adding a particular file

  💲 git add < file >

• Adding all the files

  💲 git add .

• To add all files with the particular extension

  💲 git add *.< fileExtension >

• Un-stage particular commit changes

  💲 git reset < hashNum >

• Removing file from stage

  💲 git restore - - staged < file > 💲 git rm - - cached < file >

Stash

• Adding files to Stash

  💲 git stash
  • adds all the files to stash

• Adding message to a stash

  💲 git stash save "< message >"

• Pop the Stash files

  💲 git stash pop

• To clear the stash

  💲 git stash clear

• To list stash

  💲 git stash list

• To Pop particular files

  💲 git stash pop stash@{indexNo}

Remote Repository

• Adding remote Repo to local repo

  💲 git remote add origin < https://gitRepoURL.git >

• To check attached URLs

  💲 git remote -v

• To push changes to remote Repo

  💲 git push origin < HEAD Branch >
  • for main or master branch it will be git push origin main or git push origin master
  • for branch → git push origin <branchName>

• To pull remote repo commits/changes

  💲 git pull

• To remove remote repo URL

  💲 git remove remote origin

• To update remote repo

  💲 git remote set-url origin < newRemoteRepoURL.git >

• To add add Upstream (forked repo URL)

  💲 git remote add upstream < URL >

• To check remote repo

  💲 git remote

• To clone remote repo

  💲 git clone < repoURL >

Branching

• To Create new branch

  💲 git branch < branchName >

• To Switch to particular branch

  💲 git checkout < branchName >

• To Create new branch and switch to it

  💲 git checkout -b < branchName >

• Merge the current branch

  💲 git merge < branchName >
  • make sure you've switched to the branch you want the other branch to merge with.

Basic git bash commands

• To move previous directory

  💲 cd ..

• To move to home directory

  💲 cd ~

• To move to root

  💲 cd /