Table of contents
What is Git?
- Git is the free and open source distributed version control system that's responsible for everything GitHub related that happens locally on your computer. This cheat sheet features the most important and commonly used Git commands for easy reference
SETUP
Configuring user information used across all local repositorie
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
SETUP & INIT
Configuring user information, initializing and cloning repositories
git init
initialize an existing directory as a Git repository
git clone [url]
retrieve an entire repository from a hosted location via URL
STAGE & SNAPSHOT
Working with snapshots and the Git staging area
git status
show modified files in working directory, staged for your next commit
git add [file] & git add .
add a file as it looks now to your next commit (stage
git reset [file]
unstage a file while retaining the changes in working directory
git commit -m “descriptive message"
commit your staged content as a new commit snapshot
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