Cheatsheet: Basic Git commands

Git.md

Git Commands

Commands	Action
git init	Initialize a git repo
git status	Displays the current state of the project
git add filename	Adds that file to the staging area and starts tracking changes
git add '*.txt'	Adds all text files to the staging area
git commit -m "Commit message"	Commits (stores) changes with the commit message
git log	Shows your commit history
git remote add RemoteName RemoteUrl	Adds a remote location for local repo to remote name at repo url
git push -u RemoteName BranchName	Pushes local changes to remote repo; -u tells Git to remember the parameters so that next time we can simply run git push
git push	Pushes the local changes to the remote repo you previously specified with git push -u RemoteName BranchName
git pull RemoteName BranchName	Gets changes made to the specified branch of our remote repo
git diff HEAD	View the differences pulled from the remote branch compared to our most recent commit (HEAD)
git diff --staged or git diff --cached	View the changes you just staged
git reset filename	Unstages the specified file(s)
git checkout -- targetfile	Get rid of all changes since the last commit for the targetfile; the -- makes sure it's a file
git branch NewBranchName	Creates a branch with the specified name
git branch	Displays all branches and current working branch
git checkout NewBranchName	Switches to the specified branch
git checkout -b NewBranchName	Creates a new branch and switches to that branch
git rm '*.txt'	Removes the files from disk and stages the removal of the files
git merge NewBranchName	Merges the specified branch name into the branch you're currently working on
git branch -d NewBranchName	Deletes the specified branch
git remote add upstream url	This will add the original fork of a project as the upstream so you can get updates to the original project
git pull upstream master	This will pull updates from the original forked repo

Git Configuration

Commands	Action
git config --list	List all the settings Git can find at that point
git config user.name "Name"	Configure your name for a specific repo
git config --global user.name "Name"	Configure the username for every repo on your computer
git config --global user.email e@m.com	Configure the email for every repo on your computer
git config --global core.editor "subl -n -w"	Set Sublime Text as your default git editor

Notes

• RemoteName - Git doesn't care what you name your remotes, but it's typical to name your main one origin.
• HEAD - the pointer to the most recent commit in your local repo