Git Commands

Configration email and user name

Global

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Local

git config --local user.email "you@example.com"
git config --local user.name "Your Name"

Unset

git config --global --unset user.email
git config --global --unset user.name

Getting Started with new repo

git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/[username]/[repo-name].git
git push -u origin main

Post Configration and Setup

git add .
git commit -m "something has changed"
git push origin main
git pull origin main

Check Status and Inspect

Discription	Command
Check your login details	git config --list
Check Status or State of your repo	git status
List Branches -a denotes all Branches	git branches
logs ,--oneline denotes all commit without extras	git log

Branching and Merging

Discription	Commands
list your branches. a * will appear next to the currently active branch	git branch
create a new branch	git branch branch-name
switch to another branch and check it out into your working directory	git checkout Branch-Name
merge the specified branch’s history into the current one	git merge branch_name

forkeeed

git clone --bare <https://github.com/exampleuser/public-repo.git>
cd public-repo.git
git push --mirror <https://github.com/yourname/private-repo.git>

Working with submodules

Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Git provides submodules to help with this. Submodules allow you to include or embed one…

You can add "sub_repo" as a submodule of main. In the main repository:

git submodule add https://github.com/<user>/sub_repo part_of_main_now

Newer versions of Git will do this automatically, but older versions will require you to explicitly tell Git to download the contents of sub_repo:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Joining a project using submodules

git clone --recursive <main repo url>