Git Command Cheat Sheet

February 20, 2023

TPI CPC

Git is a powerful version control system that helps developers track changes to their code over time.

Programming

Here are some commonly used Git commands that can be helpful in managing your code repository:

• This command creates a new local Git repository and initializes it.

git init

• This command creates a copy of an existing Git repository on your local machine.

git clone link

• Use this command to check the status of your repository and see any modified files.

git status

• This command adds all changes in your working directory to the staging area.

git add -all

• This command adds changes in the current directory to the staging area.

git add .

• This command adds all changed files except deleted ones to the staging area.

git add \*

• This command adds a specific changed file to the staging area.

git add link

• This command resets changes that were added to the staging area.

git reset

• Use this command to commit your changes to the repository with a commit message.

git commit -m "message"

• This command undoes the last commit and returns your repository to the previous state.

git reset HEAD~

• Use this command to create a new Git branch with the given name.

git branch name

• Use this command to switch to the Git branch with the given name.

git checkout name

-Use this command to list all the branches in your repository.

git branch

• Use this command to merge changes from a different branch into your current branch.

git merge name

• Use this command to transfer your local repository changes to an online GitHub repository.

git push origin name

• This command is equivalent to running git fetch and git merge together.

git pull