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Git Cheat Sheet - New

This document provides a cheatsheet of common Git commands for downloading and initializing a Git repository, setting up credentials, working with branches, staging and committing changes, merging and pulling updates from remote repositories, resetting commits, stashing temporary changes, and finding more information. It lists the basic commands for cloning a repository, initializing a local repository and linking it to a remote, setting a username and email, listing and creating branches, adding, committing, pushing and pulling changes, merging updates, resetting the staging area and commits, stashing and applying temporary changes, and finding more resources.

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Git Cheat Sheet - New

This document provides a cheatsheet of common Git commands for downloading and initializing a Git repository, setting up credentials, working with branches, staging and committing changes, merging and pulling updates from remote repositories, resetting commits, stashing temporary changes, and finding more information. It lists the basic commands for cloning a repository, initializing a local repository and linking it to a remote, setting a username and email, listing and creating branches, adding, committing, pushing and pulling changes, merging updates, resetting the staging area and commits, stashing and applying temporary changes, and finding more resources.

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The ultimate

Git Cheatsheet

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DOWNLOADING & INITIALIZATION
Initialize an existing directory as Git repository

$ git init

Clone a repository that already exists on Github,


including all of the files, branches and commits

$ git clone [repo_url]

After using the git init command, link the local


repository to an emty GitHub repository

$ git remote add origin [url]

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SETUP CREDENTIALS
Set a username

$ git config --global user.name


“[firstname lastname]“

Set an email address

$ git config --global user.email


“[email address]“

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BRANCHES
List your branches & check active branch

$ git branch

Create a new branch

$ git branch [branch-name]

Create a new branch & switch to that branch


(one command only)

$ git checkout -b [branch-name]

Delete specific branch

$ git branch -d [branch-name]

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STAGE & SNAPSHOT
Show modified files in working directory, staged
for your next commit

$ git status

Add a file as it looks now to you next commit


(stage)

$ git add [file-name]

Add all changed files to staging area

$ git add .

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Commit your staged content as new commit
snapshot

$ git commit -m “[message]“

Fetch and merge any commits from the tracking


remote branch

$ git pull origin <branch-name>

Transmit local branch commits to the remote


repository branch

$ git push origin <branch-name>

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Synchronize your local repository with the
remote repository

$ git fetch

MERGING
Merge a remote branch into your current branch
to bring it up to date

$ git merge <branch-name>

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REDO COMMITS
Reset staging area to match most recent commit
but leave the working directory unchanged

$ git reset

Reset staging area and working directory to


match most recent commit and overwirte all
changes in the working directory

$ git reset --hard

Create a new commit, reverting changes from


the specified commit.

$ git revert <commit>

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TEMPORARY COMMITS
Put current changes in your working directory
into stash for later use

$ git stash

Apply stored stash content into working


directory, and clear stash

$ git stash pop

Delete a specific stash from all your previous


stashes

$ git stash drop

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