Useful git commands

git-commands.md

• Pull (Update repo): git pull
• Commit:
  • git add .
  • git commit -m "COMMIT COMMENT"
  • Short version: git commit -am "COMMIT COMMENT"
• Push (Update remote): git push <remote-name> <branch-name>
• Clone: git clone <url>
• Clone a branch: git clone <url> BRANCH_NAME
• Clone and create a branch: git clone <url> -b BRANCH_NAME
• Get repo's remote URL: git config --get remote.origin.url
• Update repo's remote URL: git remote set-url origin <url>
• See changed files before commit (differences between current commit and working tree): git diff HEAD or git diff [filename]
• Undo the most recent commit: git reset --hard HEAD~1 or git reset HEAD~1 (--hard flag reset your files to their state at prev commit, more info)
• List changed files in most recent commit: git show --stat HEAD (more info)
• Clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository: (Using a git-bash prompt NOT powershell or CMD)
  • git init
  • git remote add origin <url>
  • git config core.sparsecheckout true
  • echo "DIR_NAME/*" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout or echo "DIR_NAME" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
  • git pull --depth=1 origin master
• Init git in existing directory: (more info)
  • cd <localdir>
  • git init
  • git add .
  • git commit -m "🎉 init"
  • git remote add origin <url>
  • git push -u origin master
• Commit count: git rev-list --count <revision>, e.g: git rev-list --count main
• Update the local list of remote branches: git remote update origin --prune
• Show all local and remote branches that (local) Git knows about: git branch -a
• Undo pushed commit
  • Undo and create new commit: git revert <commit_hash> then git push
  • Remove commit form the history: git reset <commit_hash> then git push -f
• Proxy more info
  • git config --global http.proxy address:port
  • git config --global http.proxy http://user:password@address:port