Collection of quick-reference snippets for everyday use with git.

Git Cookbook.md

# Get the last commit SHA
git log -1 --format='%H' # long sha
git log -1 --format='%h' # short sha

Get the branch name only.

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

List changed files.

# Including whitespace changes
git diff --name-only

# README.md
# script.sh

# Excluding whitespace changes
git diff --name-only -w

# README.md

Force pull, basically. Do a hard reset on the current branch from the origin remote. Use with caution!

git reset --hard origin/dev

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Get the latest release tag. Find the most recent tag beginning with "release-", followed by any number of digits.

git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --match "release-[0-9]*"
# release-55.11

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Move branch from previous name to main. Most often used to replace the now-archaic 'master' name.

git branch -M main

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Get latest commit with the tag at $1.

git rev-list -n 1 --tags="$1"

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List all git tags in the repo.

git tag -l

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Move a file (and, critically, tell git where it went!).

git mv ./oldName.txt ./newName.txt

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List all branches.

git branch

List all branches on remote.

git branch --remotes
# OR
git branch -r

# origin/main

Git Reference.md

Commit messages

• Commit messages wrap at 50 char on the first line
• Commit messages wrap at 72 char for each subsequent line