Git Commands

Getting & Creating Projects

Command	Description
git init	Initialize a local Git repository
git clone ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git	Create a local copy of a remote repository

Basic Snapshotting

Command	Description
git status	Check status
git add [file-name.txt]	Add a file to the staging area
git add -A	Add all new and changed files to the staging area
git commit -m "[commit message]"	Commit changes
git rm -r [file-name.txt]	Remove a file (or folder)
git reset head --hard	Resets local repo to last commit/head - will lose all the changes
git reset --soft HEAD~	Resets local repo's current (n) commit to n-1 commit - without losing the nth committed changes
git stash	To store current changes without commiting
git pop	To bring back the stashed changes
git clean -df	To delete unwanted untracked files
git checkout -	To move to previous branch after checking out new branch

Branching & Merging

Command	Description
git branch	List branches (the asterisk denotes the current branch)
git clone --branch 11.5 --shallow-since=3m https://github.com/MariaDB/server.git mariadb-serverh	This will make a clone that only tracks branch 11.5 and no other branches. Additionally this uses the shallow clone feature to fetch commit history only for the past 3 months instead of the entire history (which in this example otherwise would be 20+ years).
git branch -a	List all branches (local and remote)
git branch [branch name]	Create a new branch
git branch -d [branch name]	Delete a branch
git push origin --delete [branch name]	Delete a remote branch
git checkout -b [branch name]	Create a new branch and switch to it
git checkout -b [branch name] origin/[branch name]	Clone a remote branch and switch to it
git branch -m [old branch name] [new branch name]	Rename a local branch
git checkout [branch name]	Switch to a branch
git checkout -	Switch to the branch last checked out
git checkout -- [file-name.txt]	Discard changes to a file
git merge [branch name]	Merge a branch into the active branch
git merge [source branch] [target branch]	Merge a branch into a target branch
git stash	Stash changes in a dirty working directory
git stash clear	Remove all stashed entries
git reset --hard origin/master	To override local git with that of the remote. This will reset everything to match the remote

Sharing & Updating Projects

Command	Description
git config --local fetch.prune true	Removes and cleans up repo, deletes branchs which are also removed/deleted from the remote repos
git push origin [branch name]	Push a branch to your remote repository
git push -u origin [branch name]	Push changes to remote repository (and remember the branch)
git push	Push changes to remote repository (remembered branch)
git push origin --delete [branch name]	Delete a remote branch
git pull	Update local repository to the newest commit
git pull origin [branch name]	Pull changes from remote repository
git remote add origin ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git	Add a remote repository
git remote set-url origin ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git	Set a repository's origin branch to SSH
git remote update	will fetch all remotes and make sure you have all the latest git commits made since the last time you worked with the repository

Inspection & Comparison

Command	Description
git log	View changes
git log --summary	View changes (detailed)
git log --oneline	View changes (briefly)
git diff [source branch] [target branch]	Preview changes before merging
git log --graph --oneline --decorate	To log commits in a graph like form

Remove Git

Command	Description
rm -rf .git	Removes GIT from current working repo

Git Shortcuts

Command	Description
git commit -am"Your commit message"	Instead of git add . & git commit -m"Your commit message"
git config --global alias.<<Your shortcut here>> "<<git command here>>"	Adds a custom command. For Example: git config --global alias.ac "commit -am", sets "git ac" as git commit -am.
git commit --amend -m"<<Your commit message>>"	Will updated the last commit message
git push origin YOURBranch --force	Will override the remote repo with local repo
git revert --no-commit 0d1d7fc3..HEAD -> git commit	Revert to a previous published commit

Replace Git History with new Author

Command	Description
git filter-branch -f --env-filter " GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='WorkWithAfridi' GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='afridi.khondakar@gmail.com' GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='WorkWithAfridi' GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='afridi.khondakar@gmail.com' " HEAD	Run the script to replace past commit's author history with new author

git filter-branch -f --commit-filter '
   if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "old_username" ] && [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "old_email" ]; then
       GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="WorkWithAfridi"
       GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="afridi.khondakar@gmail.com"
       GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="WorkWithAfridi"
       GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="afridi.khondakar@gmail.com"
   fi
   git commit-tree "$@"
' HEAD 

• Run the script to replace certain users commit's author history with new author, remember to change the old_username & old_email properties |