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Git Basics for Developers

Git is a version control system. It allows cloning repositories locally, fetching and pulling changes from remote repositories, viewing file status and differences, staging and committing changes, pushing changes to remote repositories, and branching and merging. The document provides commands for the essential Git workflows like initializing a repository, adding and committing files, viewing history and diffs, resetting and amending commits, pushing to remote repositories, and working with remote repositories by fetching, pulling, stashing, branching and pushing changes.

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Git Basics for Developers

Git is a version control system. It allows cloning repositories locally, fetching and pulling changes from remote repositories, viewing file status and differences, staging and committing changes, pushing changes to remote repositories, and branching and merging. The document provides commands for the essential Git workflows like initializing a repository, adding and committing files, viewing history and diffs, resetting and amending commits, pushing to remote repositories, and working with remote repositories by fetching, pulling, stashing, branching and pushing changes.

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Git Cheat Sheet

Git is a version control system.

The essentials: Using Git


git clone Clone a Git repository to your local computer
git fetch Fetch changes from a remote repository
git pull Fetch and merge changes from a remote repository
git status See a summary of local changes, remote commits, and untracked files.
git diff See specific local changes. Use –-name-only to see filenames.
git add Stage changes to tracked and untracked files.
git commit Create a new commit with changes previously added.
git push Send changes to your configured remote repository (like GitLab or GitHub).

Important options: Keeping things organized


git reset HEAD -- Get back to the last known commit and unstage files.
git add -u Add only updated, previously committed files.
git log –-graph –-oneline See a pretty branch history. Create an alias (git lg) for easy access.

Basic branching: Branches represent a series of commits


git branch --all List all local and remote branches
git checkout bugfix Change to an existing branch called bugfix
git checkout -b dev main Make and checkout a branch called dev based on main
git checkout main
Merge branch changes from dev into main
git merge dev

Pushing changes: Sending data from your local repository to a remote repository
git remote -v View all configured remotes
git push origin HEAD Push commits located at the HEAD of your repo to the origin repo
git push origin +HEAD Push commits, forcing remote to adopt local changes
git push origin –d dev Delete dev branch from remote after pushing changes

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Git Cheat Sheet

Basic flow: Daily usage of Git, including important options


git init demo && cd demo
cp ~/Code/mycode.py mycode.py Initialize a local Git repository, creating the directory if
git add mycode.py it doesn't exist. Change directory to the repo, add
git commit -m 'My first commit' files, and commit.
git show
git diff As you begin to hack on local files, you commit them
at regular intervals. The --all option commits changes
git commit --all -m 'Another commit' to existing files (use git add to add new files).
git log –-graph --abbrev-commit

git reset -–soft HEAD~3


After a while, you have 3 commits that are meaningful
git diff –-cached as a single commit.

git commit -am 'Message for 3 commits'

git push origin HEAD Lastly, you push your local changes to a remote
repository, designated as origin.

Working with a remote repository: Contributing to public repositories


git fetch --all Download all commits and references

git pull –-rebase <remote> <branch> Merge all commits since your last common commit
from the remote branch without a merge commit
git stash Save uncommitted changes
git stash pop Restore saved changes
git add <file> Add a file to the staging area, to be committed
git commit -m 'commit message' Most projects have a format for commit messages.
git checkout -b <new_branch> Create and checkout a branch
git checkout main && git pull --rebase Checkout and update the main branch
git reset head –-hard origin/main WARNING: Erase all local changes

git push -u origin HEAD Push your changes and the current branch to the
origin repository
git push origin HEAD Push your changes to the origin repository

Matt Broberg & Seth Kenlon CC BY-SA 4.0 Opensource.com

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