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Git & GitHub Cheat Sheet

This document provides an overview of using Git and GitHub. It discusses installing Git, configuring user settings, initializing and cloning repositories, staging and committing changes, branching and merging, sharing changes remotely, tracking file moves and deletes, rewriting history, temporarily storing changes, and ignoring patterns. The document is split into multiple pages that cover these various Git and GitHub topics at a high level.

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Git & GitHub Cheat Sheet

This document provides an overview of using Git and GitHub. It discusses installing Git, configuring user settings, initializing and cloning repositories, staging and committing changes, branching and merging, sharing changes remotely, tracking file moves and deletes, rewriting history, temporarily storing changes, and ignoring patterns. The document is split into multiple pages that cover these various Git and GitHub topics at a high level.

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Git & GitHub

01

Cheatsheet
INSTALLATION & GUIS
Configuring user information used across all local repositories

GitHub for Windows


htps://windows.github.com

GitHub for Mac


htps://mac.github.com

For Linux and Solaris platforms, the latest release is


available on the official Git website.

Git for All Platforms


htp://git-scm.com

By Sharjeel Faiq
Git & GitHub
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Cheatsheet
SETUP
With platform-specific installers for Git, GitHub also provides
the ease of staying up-to-date with the latest releases of the
command line tool while providing a graphical user interface for
day-to-day interaction, review, and repository synchronization.

git config --global user.name “[firstname lastname]”


set a name that is identifiable for credit when review
version history

git config --global user.email “[valid-email]”


set an email address that will be associated with each
history marker

git config --global color.ui auto


set automatic command line coloring for Git for easy
reviewing

By Sharjeel Faiq
Git & GitHub
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Cheatsheet
SETUP & INIT
Configuring user information, initializing and cloning
reapositories

git init
initialize an existing directory as a Git repository

git clone [URL]


retrieve an entire repository from a hosted location
via URL

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STAGE & SNAPSHOT
Working with snapshots and the Git staging area

git status
show modified files in the working directory, staged
for your next commit

git add [file]


add a file as it looks now to your next commit (stage)

git reset [file]


unstage a file while retaining the changes in the
working directory

git diff
diff of what is changed but not staged

git diff --staged


diff of what is staged but not yet committed

git commit -m “[descriptive message]”


commit your staged content as a new commit snapshot

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BRANCH & MERGE
Isolating work in branches, changing context, and integrating
changes

git branch
list your branches. a* will appear next to the
currently active branch

git branch [branch-name]


create a new branch at the current commit

git checkout
switch to another branch and check it out into your
working directory

git merge [branch]


merge the specified branch’s history into the current
one

git log
show all commits in the current branch’s history

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SHARE & UPDATE
Retrieving updates from another repository and updating
local repos

git remote add [alias] [url]


add a git URL as an alias

git fetch [alias]


fetch down all the branches from that Git remote

git merge [alias]/[branch]


merge a remote branch into your current branch to
bring it up to date

git push [alias] [branch]


Transmit local branch commits to the remote repository
branch

git pull
fetch and merge any commits from the tracking remote
branch

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TRACKING PATH CHANGES
Versioning file removes and path changes

git rm [file]
delete the file from the project and stage the removal
for commit

git mv [existing-path] [new-path]


change an existing file path and stage the move

git log --stat -M


show all commit logs with the indication of any paths
that moved

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REWRITE HISTORY
Rewriting branches, updating commits and clearing history

git rebase [branch]


apply any commits of the current branch ahead of the
specified one

git reset --hard [commit]


clear staging area, rewrite the working tree from the
specified commit

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TEMPORARY COMMITS
Temporarily store modified, tracked files in order to change
branches
git stash
Save modified and staged changes

git stash list


list stack-order of stashed file changes

git stash pop


write working from the top of the stash stack

git stash drop


discard the changes from the top of the stash stack

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IGNORING PATTERNS
Preventing unintentional staging or committing of files
logs/
*.notes
pattern*/
Save a file with desired patterns as .gitignore with
either direct string matches or wildcard globs.

git config --global core.excludesfile [file]


system wide ignore pattern for all local repositories

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