Git CLI Commands

1. Initializing Git

git init .

2. Staging and Unstaging Files

git add .

git reset .

3. Committing

git commit -m "commit message" "commit description(optional)"

4. Setting Remote Repositories

• Adding Remote Repositories

git remote add origin https://github.com/somewhere/something.git

• Listing remote repositories

git remote -v

• Setting the git upstream (default location to push commits)

git push -u origin master

OR

git push --set-upstream origin branch_name

5. Git Branches

• Listing the branches

git branch

• Switch between branches

git checkout -b branch_name
git checkout - (moves to the previous branch)

• Deleting branches

git branch -d branch_name

6. Merging

• Merging a branch to the master branch

git merge branch_name 

7. Squashing

Merge all the commits in a branch as a single commit

git merge branch_name --squash

8. Pulling

git pull origin master

9. Combining add & commit

git commit -am "commit message here"

10. Git Aliases

git config --global alias.command_name "command -am"

AND

git config --global alias.command !better-command.sh : execute a script

11. Amend

• Add files to the last commit (–no-edit : keep the last commit message)

git commit --amend --no-edit

• Change the last commit message

git commit --amend -m "new commit msg"

12. Force Push

overwrite history on remote

git push origin master --force

13. Revert

Undo a commit with a new commit

git revert undoed_better_commit

14. Stash

will remove the newly made changes from the current working directory and save them for later use without committing them to the repository

• Stashing

git stash --all

• Getting the stashed changes back

git stash pop

• Stashing with a name

git stash save stashing_name

• Listing the stash

git stash list

• Getting the named stashed changes back

git stash apply index_number_from_the_stashed_list

15. Renaming the Master Branch

git branch -M mucho

16. Pretty Git Logs

git log --graph --oneline --decorate

17. Diffing

git diff branch_name/change_name

18. Patching

selecting only a few changes manually in a file without staging the whole file

git add -p change_name

19. Increasing the buffer size

git config --global http.postBuffer 1048576000

Tags: /git/ /vcs/ /commands/