git-commands.md

git stash

• Use when you want to store your local changes, but revert back to the current state of the HEAD commit

git stash apply

• use this when you want to reapply the most recent stash you made. git stash apply stash@{2} will apply the second most recent, etc.

git shortlog

• formats git log into a more readable format for something like a release announcement. Groups commits by author and title

git commit --amend

• you can amend files to the previous commit. If not message is given it will use the previous commit message

git reset --hard

• throws away all uncommitted changes and moves HEAD back to previous commit

git reset --soft

• moves HEAD back, but stages changes. You can git commit after this and it should push your changes up

git reset --hard HEAD~2

• throws all uncommitted changes away and moves HEAD back two commits

three different ways to display git log

• git log -p shows the changes made between each commit

• git log --pretty=oneline show the default one-line format for commits

• git log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit shows the graph of branches + custom formatting with colors!