Cheat-sheet

GIT Cheat Sheet

1) init — Create an empty GIT repository in your development directory

Go to directory

git init

2) status — Show the current state of the repository including un-added and un-committed files

git status

3) add — Add a file to the repository staging area

Create a file, e.g. file.txt git add file.txt Add all new or changed files to the repository staging area (the period means all)

git add .

4) commit — Commit all changes to the repository for first time (-m means message)

git commit –m “Initial commit”

Commit all changes to the repository for later activities

git commit –m “Description of changes being made to project”

5) branch — Create a new branch of the project

Choose a name for the new branch (original branch is master), e.g. test git branch test List all branches (* appears next to current branch)

git branch

6) checkout — Switch branches and check-out all files (e.g. to test branch)

git checkout test Create a new branch and check-out files in one command

git checkout –b test

7) merge — Merge two branches together (go to the destination branch first, e.g. master)

git checkout master

git merge test

8) delete — Delete a branch that you no longer need (e.g. after a merge)

git branch test –d

Or to force the delete:

git branch test –D

9) log — View commit history (including long commit ID numbers)

git log

10) revert — Revert all files back to a previous commit point

git revert

Removes cache from a specific file so that it can be added to the .gitignore

rm -cache