Git Cheatsheet

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git config --global user.name "<Enter name here>" to set username. ^🔗
git config --global user.email <email> to set an email. ^🔗
git config -h to see the help documentation for ‘git config’ command. ^🔗
git help <command> to get the help documentation for a specific git command. ^🔗
cd <file/folder path> to change directory. ^🔗
git init to initialize a git repository in the current working directory. ^🔗
git status to check the current state of the repository. ^🔗
git add <filename> to track a file in the working directory ^🔗
git rm --cached <filename> to untrack a file in the working directory ^🔗

Tip: To ignore a file/folder create a txt file and rename it as .gitignore , then add the files that are to be ignored such as .txt files etc. ^🔗

git add . to track all the files present in the directory ^🔗
git commit -m to Commit all the staged changes (To commit means to take a snapshot of the repository at particular point of a time). ^🔗
git commit -m "<Your Message>" to add a message for a commit directly in the command line ^🔗
git restore --staged <filename> to remove the changes that were previously staged ^🔗
git commit -a -m "<message>" to stage all modified and delete files automatically and create a new commit with the specified commit message in a single step. ^🔗
git rm "<filename>" to delete a file. ^🔗
git restore "<filename>" to restore a file. ^🔗
git mv "<oldname>" "<newname"> to rename a file. ^🔗
git log /git log --oneline to view the commit history of the repository, i.e see all the commit in chronological order. ^🔗 ^🔗
git commit -m "<newMessage>" --amend to change the message of recent commit (Using amend command changes the commit ID and hence should not be used in public repositories). ^🔗
git log -p (-2) to see the commit history along with the actual content changes (patch) introduced in each commit. ^🔗
git show <commit_ID> to view detailed information about the specified commit, including the commit message and changes introduced. ^🔗
git rm <filename> to remove a file from both, working directory and git repository.
git checkout <filename> to Undo unstaged changes. ^🔗
git checkout <filename> -p to interactively preview and selectively discard changes within the specified file before restoring it to the state of the last commit.
git reset HEAD <filename> to remove files from staging. ^🔗
git revert HEAD to revert/ rollback to a previous commit. ^🔗
git branch to see, create and manages all the branches in a repository. ^🔗
git branch <new-branch-name> to create a new branch. ^🔗
git checkout <branch-name> to switch to a new created branch. ^🔗
git checkout -b <branch-name> to create and switch to a new branch. ^🔗
git branch -s <branch-name> to delete a branch. ^🔗
git merge <branch-name> to merge a branch. ^🔗
git merge --abort to abort in case of merge conflicts.
git log --graph --oneline to get detailed view about how a merge happened.