Tag: github commands

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Every dev has a working copy of the code and full change history on their local machine

Here are some most important and useful GIT commands that will surely help you.

Git Commands:

• This command sets the author name and email address respectively to be used with your commits.

$ git config –global user.name "[name]" 
$ git config –global user.email "[email address]"

• This command is used to start new repository.

$ git init [repository name]

• This command is used to obtain a repository from an existing URL.

$ git clone [url]  

• This command records or snapshots the file permanently in the version history.

$ git commit -m "[Type in the commit message]"

• This command lists all the files that have to be committed.

$ git status 

• This command shows the metadata and content changes of the specified commit.

$ git show [commit]

• These commands lists, creates and delete branch respectively.

$ git branch  
$ git branch [branch name]  
$ git branch -d [branch name]  

• This command is used to connect your local repository to the remote server.

$ git remote add [variable name] [Remote Repo Link]  

• This command sends the committed changes of master branch to your remote repository.

$ git push [variable name] master  

• This command sends the branch commits to your remote repository.

$ git push [variable name] [branch]

• This command pushes all branches to your remote repository.

$ git push –all [variable name]

• This command deletes a branch on your remote repository.

$ git push [variable name] :[branch name]

• This command fetches and merges changes on the remote server to your working directory

$ git pull [Repository Link]

If you want more commands with examples, please let us know in the comments below.

More Useful commands:

• Checks if sha is in production.

$ git tag --contains [sha]

• Number of commits by author.

$ git shortlog -s --author 'Author Name'

• List of authors and commits to repository sorted alphabetically.

$ git shortlog -s -n

• See differences in file before committing / compare recently edited file with its last committed state

$ git diff path/to/file.txt

• Undo local changes to a file.

$ git checkout -- filename

• Undo/revert last commit

git revert HEAD^

• Remove last commit from history (WITHOUT keeping changes)

$ git reset --hard HEAD~

• Remove last commit from history (WITH keeping changes)

$ git reset HEAD~

• Shows number of lines added or removed from repository by an author since some time in the past.

$ git log --author="Author name" --pretty=tformat: --numstat --since=month | awk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf "added lines: %s, removed lines: %s, total lines: %s\n", add, subs, loc }'

referenceS:

https://gist.github.com/davfre/8313299#undoing-previous-actions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8903953/how-to-revert-last-commit-and-remove-it-from-history

https://github.com/bpassos/git-commands#committing-files