git.cheat

% git

# Set global git user name
git config --global user.name <name>

# Set global git user email
git config --global user.email <email>

# Initializes a git repository
git init

# Clone a git repository
git clone -b <branch_name> <repository> <clone_directory>

# Shallow clone with depth 1 with all branches and submodules
git clone --depth=1 --no-single-branch --recurse-submodules <repository> <clone_directory>

# Rebase upstream master into local/origin master (use if people don't clone your repository)
git fetch <remote_name>
git checkout master
git rebase <remote_name>/master
git fetch --unshallow origin
git push -f origin master

# Merge upstream master into local/origin master (use if people clone your repository)
git fetch <remote_name>
git checkout master
git merge <remote_name>/master
git fetch --unshallow origin
git push -f origin master

# View all available remote for a git repository
git remote --verbose

# Adds a remote for a git repository
git remote add <remote_name> <remote_url>

# Renames a remote for a git repository
git remote rename <old_remote_name> <new_remote_name>

# Remove a remote for a git repository
git remote remove <remote_name>

# Checkout to branch
git checkout <branch>

# Displays the current status of a git repository
git status

# Displays unstaged changes for file
cd <toplevel_directory>; \
    git diff <unstaged_files>

# Stage single or multiple files
cd <toplevel_directory>; \
    git add <changed_files>;

# Stage all files in project
git add -A

# Create commit for staged files
git commit -m "<commit_description>"

# Create backdated commit for staged files
git commit --date="<number_of_days_ago> days ago" -m "<commit_description>"

# Pushes committed changes to remote repository
git push -u <remote_name> <branch_name>

# Pushes changes to a remote repository overwriting another branch
git push <remote_name> <branch>:<branch_to_overwrite>

# Overwrites remote branch with local branch changes
git push <remote_name> <branch_name> -f

# Pulls changes to a remote repo to the local repo
git pull --ff-only

# Merges changes on one branch into current branch
git merge <branch_name>

# Abort the current conflict resolution process, and try to reconstruct the pre-merge state.
git merge --abort

# Displays log of commits for a repo
git log

# Displays formatted log of commits for a repo
git log --all --decorate --oneline --graph

# Clear everything
git clean -dxf

# Sign all commits in a branch based on master
git rebase master -S -f

# See all open pull requests of a user on Github
navi fn url::open 'https://github.com/pulls?&q=author:<user>+is:open+is:pr'

# Checkout a branch from a fork
git fetch origin pull/<pr_number>/head:pr/<pr_number> \
   && git checkout pr/<pr_number>

# Add a new module
git submodule add <repository> <path>

# Update module
git submodule update --init

# Update module without init
git submodule update

# Pull all submodules
git submodule foreach git pull origin master

# Update all submodules
git submodule update --init --recursive

# Skip git hooks
git commit --no-verify

# Create new branch from current HEAD
git checkout -b <new_branch_name>

# Remove commits from local repository (destroy changes)
git reset --hard HEAD~<number_of_commits>

# Remove commits from local repository (keep changes)
git reset --soft HEAD~<number_of_commits>

$ branch: git branch | awk '{print $NF}'
$ toplevel_directory: git rev-parse --show-toplevel
$ unstaged_files: git status --untracked-files=no -s --porcelain | awk '{print $NF}' --- --multi true
$ changed_files: git status --untracked-files=all -s --porcelain | awk '{print $NF}' --- --multi true