My Git Cheatsheet

Creating a Git Reppo

In the folder you want to create a repo, do the following command in terminal

git init

Always check that you are not already in a repo by using

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Adding Files to Staging

Staging is files that are being tracked to be committed.

Use git to see which files are untracked (red) or in staging (green)

git status

Three ways to add files to staging

• add one file at a time git add <filename>
• add all files in repo git add -A
• add all files in my current folder git add .

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Committing Files to Our Repo

git commit -m "some descriptive text"

If you forget the -m, you will end up in vim, to exit type :wq

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Looking At Our Commit History

git log

git log --online

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Working with Remotes (enterprise, github, gitlab)

• to add a remote git remote add <name> <url>

• to see list of remotes git remote -v

• to push the code git push <remoteName> <branchName>

• to see your current branch git branch