Useful git commnads

Git is a version control system which is used by most open source and collaborative programming projects. Below is a list of few very often used git commands. Hope its helpful.

 

1. Get the status of modified files
$ git status

2. Pull latest changes in current branch
$ git pull origin master

3. Switch to existing branch
$ git checkout branch-name

4. Checkout into your new branch
$ git checkout -b myNewBranch

5. Delete branch
$ git branch -D myLocalBranch

6. Show all branches, local and remote
$ git branch –a

7. Git reset/discard all changes until last commit

$ git reset –hard
Or,
$ git checkout -f

$ git reset --hard origin/master

for moving to the head version

8. Applying the patch on current branch.

Note: You first need to check if patch has some conflicts. If there are no conflicts then only apply patch.
$ git apply --check ../DRILL-154.patch
$ git apply ../DRILL-154.patch

Verify if patch is applied:
$ git status

9. Add files to version control
Get list of files to be added to version control by ‘git status’ and then add the files one by one:
$ git add sandbox/web-frontend/drill.css

10. Finally commit files to branch

$ git commit -m "Your commit message here"

Eg.
$ git commit -m “DRILL-154: Comment-Drill logo added in modal window”

11. Configure userid and email id for git commits (if not present in configs already)
$ git config --global user.name Yash
$ git config --global user.email yash360@gmail.com
$ git commit --amend --reset-author

12. To see commit histories 
$ git log

13. To see details of particular commit (if you have the particular commit id)
$ git show 74a27b95ad83eb2eb69d76d17c97667ceac82283

14. Create patch from commit id
$ git show 74a27b95ad83eb2eb69d76d17c97667ceac82283 > DRILL-154.patch

 

Few Other Commands:

1. Pull with rebase: git pull –rebase

2. Create a patch with multiple commits(revisions) : git diff HEAD~2..HEAD > patch.diff

3. Merge multiple commits into one: git rebase -i

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