Git CheatSheet
SETUP
Configuring user information used across all local repositories
- git config –global user.name “[firstname lastname]”
set a name that is identifiable for credit when review version history
- git config –global user.email “[valid-email]”
set an email address that will be associated with each history marker
- git config –global color.ui auto
set automatic command line coloring for Git for easy reviewing
SETUP & INIT
Configuring user information, initializing and cloning repositories
- git init
initialize an existing directory as a Git repository
- git clone [url]
retrieve an entire repository from a hosted location via URL
STAGE & SNAPSHOT
Working with snapshots and the Git staging area git status show modified files in working directory, staged for your next commit
- git add [file]
add a file as it looks now to your next commit (stage)
- git reset [file]
unstage a file while retaining the changes in working directory
- git diff
diff of what is changed but not staged
- git diff –staged
diff of what is staged but not yet committed
- git commit -m “[descriptive message]”
commit your staged content as a new commit snapshot
BRANCH & MERGE
Isolating work in branches, changing context, and integrating changes git branch list your branches. a * will appear next to the currently active branch
git branch
List all of the branches in your repo. Add a argument to create a new branch with the name.
git branch [branch-name]
create a new branch at the current commit.
- git checkout
switch to another branch and check it out into your working directory.
- git checkout -b
Create and check out a new branch named . Drop the -b flag to checkout an existing branch.
- git merge [branch]
merge the specified branch’s history into the current one
- git log
show all commits in the current branch’s history