Quick reference for Git Commands
- Initialize the current directory with an empty repository.
git init
- Clone Repository
git clone <url> <dir>
- To view current configurations
git config --list
- Set Username
- 'git config user.name <"username">'
- Set Email
git config user.email <"email">
- Change default editor
git config core.editor <editor>
- Show working directory status
git status
- Add file to index for next commit
git add <file>git add .(to add all files at once)
- Remove file from the index
git reset --<file>
- Discard file modification
git checkout --<file>
- Remove file from the current working directory
git rm <file>
- To commit changes
git commit -m <"commit message">
- Replace last commit of the current branch with current index
git commit --amend
- To view commit logs
git log -n <number>git shortlog(To view shorter commit log)git shortlog -s(Short log summary)git log --onelne(Shows commits in one line)
- Remove untracked files from the repository
git clean -i
- Detach head from current branch
git checkout --detach
- Create new branch
git checkout -b <branch-name>
- Switch branch
git checkout <branch-name>
- Checkout to n previous commits
git checkout <HEAD~n>("n" could be any number)
- List local branches
git branch --list
- List remote tracking branches
git branch -r
- List both remote and local branches
git branch -a
- Delete branch
git branch -d <branch_name>git branch -D <branch_name>(Force delete. Use with caution)
- Merge branch
git merge <branch-name>
- Rebase current branch with other branched interactively
git rebase -i <other-branch>
- Merge using merge commit
git merge --no--ff <other-branch>
- List tags
git tag
- Add tag
git tag <tag_name>
- Delete tag
git tag -d <tag_name>
- Save working directory state to new stash
git stash save "stash_message"
- List stashes
git stash list
- Restore last stash and apply to working directory
git stash pop
- Remove last stash
git stash drop
- Clear stashes
git stash clear
- Show remote repositories
git remote -v
- Add remote repositories
git remote add <remote-name> <url>
- Push branch to remote
git push <remote-name> <branch-name>
- Delete remote branch
git push --delete <remote-branch> <branch-name>
- Push and create new remote branch at the same time
git push -u origin mastergit push origin mastergit push origin master --force
- Push tags/tag
git push <remote-name> <tag_name>git push --tags <remote-name>
- Delete remote tag
git push --delete <remote-name> <tag-name>
- Fetch from remote (Update remote-tracking branches)
git fetch <remote-name>
- Pull from remote (Retrieve objects from remote)
git pull <remote-name> <branch-name>
- Optimize repository
git gc
- Auto optimize
git gc --auto
- Check repository
git fsck(Checks integrity of objects in the repository)