Code-LTHGit2016

What you should do first is to click the fork button on this repo on Github.

Common commands:

• git clone https://github.com/YourGithubUsername/Code-LTHGit2016.git to clone this entire repo (your fork) into a directory on your computer.
• git status to check how badly things are going. If you don't know what command to run, run this one.
• git add . (note the period) adds all changed files to the "index", making them ready to be committed.
• git commit -m "Insert commit message here (including quotes)" creates a commit with the currently added files.
• escape:q! if you're stuck in vim and don't know how to get out.
• git push uploads your changes to the default remote (repo) (see git remote --help for more info on that).
• git pull to download changes in the repo.
• git stash then git pull then git stash pop if you're in the middle of changing something but still want to pull.
• git diff to show line changes you've made.

Harder tricks:

These aren't recommended for beginners. If you want to learn about these please ask.

• Branches. It's a bit like having multiple repos in the same repo, that you can compare and merge changes between. Or rather, repos are more like branches in different locations.
• git add -i Interactive adding of changes. Lets you add only parts of files which makes it much easier to contain specific changes in a single commit.
• git cherry-pick For grabbing a commit from some branch and applying on top of the current branch. Great for when you forget to branch or when you want a specific feature from another branch. This is amazing but doesn't always work the way you intend, especially with too broad commits.
• git reset HEAD~x Unstages the x latest commits. If you by accident commited something that you didnt want to inclue in your commit. If you want to delete your last commit, the safe way is git reset HEAD~1 followed by git stash. The dangerous, not recoverable way is: git reset --hard HEAD~1 (Not recommended if you do not know what you are doing).