git-cheatsheet.md

Git commands

• Mingfei Sun
• Created at: 2018-07-23
• Modified at: 2018-07-25

Branch operations

• Create a new branch from current branch

git checkout -b <new_name> 

• Checkout to the new branch

git checkout <new_name>

• Delete a branch

git branch -d <new_name>

• Delete dead files in history

git gc --prune=now --aggressive

• List large file

git rev-list --objects --all \
| git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize) %(rest)' \
| sed -n 's/^blob //p' \
| sort --numeric-sort --key=2 \
| cut -c 1-12,41- \
| numfmt --field=2 --to=iec-i --suffix=B --padding=7 --round=nearest

• merge

# under current branch
git merge <new_branch>