GitSnippets.md

Unstage all files staged for commit

• Command

git reset HEAD -- .

Revert to previous commit, discarding all changes made locally

• Command

git reset --hard HEAD

Stage only files that match a given regex

• Command

find . -name '<regex here>' | xargs git add

• Example (stage all files with extension .fr.resx)

find . -name '*.fr.resx' | xargs git add

Add a submodule to existing Git repository

• Command

git submodule add <gitRepositoryUrl> <path>

• Example

git submodule add https://github.com/INKolevTest/BootstrapThemes.git Source/Web/Web/Content/BootstrapThemes
git commit -m "Added BootstrapThemes submodule" 
git push

Make a submodule visible in the existing Git repository

• Command (execute in the root folder where the .git directory is)

git submodule init
git submodule update

• init makes git go through your .gitmodules file and automatically adds an entry to .git/config for each submodule
• update clones the specified submodules into our repo (the parent project)

Update submodule and parent repo in one step

• Command

git push --recurse-submodules=check

Create alias for some operation

• Command

git config alias.pushall "push --recurse-submodules=on-demand"