git cheatsheet for LaTeX projects

.gitignore

# create a file with this exact text to ignore build files
*.aux
*.fdb_latexmk
*.fls
*.log
*.synctex.gz

shell.sh

# make a new git repo
git init

# after making changes, add your files to staging
git add -A

# commit your files to history
git commit -m "My awesome descriptive commit message"

# push to GitHub or similar
# first make a repo on GitHub and follow its instructions to
# "push an existing repository from the command line"
git push

# get git status
git status

# get git history
git log