15 Useful Git Commands

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1. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐠 --𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫="<𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫>": Shows commits authored by the specified author.

2. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟 --𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞-𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲: Shows only the names of files that have differences between two commits or branches.

3. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐞: Removes unreachable objects and refs from the local repository.

4. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟 --𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝: Show the differences between the staging area and the last commit.

5. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐠: Shows a log of all the changes made to the refs (branches, tags) in the repository.

6. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 <𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞_𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞>: Restores the specified file to its state in the last commit, discarding any changes made to the file in the working directory.

7. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭: Use binary search to find the commit that introduced a bug.

8. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 <𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞_𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞>: Shows the author and commit details for each line of a file.

9. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐨𝐠: Summarizes the git log output, grouping commits by author.

10. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐠 -𝐒 <𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠>: Finds commits that added or removed the given string.

11. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 --𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐬𝐡 <𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡_𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞>: Merge a branch, but condense all changes into a single commit.

12. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐜𝐡 --𝐩𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐞: Fetch changes from a remote repository and clean up deleted remote branches.

13. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 <𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭>:<𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞>: Show the file as it was at the specified commit.

14. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬: Allows you to add notes to individual commits without modifying the commit message.

15. 𝐠𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧: Removes untracked files from the working directory.