git-for-people-who-want-to-git.md

Git For People Who Want To Git

Terms

Working tree All uncommited changes

Staging area Uncommited changes you've told git you want to include in a commit

Branches

Creating branches

git checkout BRANCHNAME

Creating a branch and checking it out

git checkout -b BRANCHNAME

Reviewing changes

All changes in your working tree

git diff

All staged changes

git diff --cached

Getting ready to commit (aka Staging changes)

Stage everything in working tree

git add .

Stage all changes in one file

git add path/to/file.txt

Stage all changes in multiple files

git add path/to/file.txt path/to/another.txt

Interactively stage changes piece by piece

git add -p

Committing

Commit everything that you've staged

git commit -m "A meaningful message about what you're commiting"

Stage everything in your working tree and commit it

git commit -am "A meaningful message about what you're commiting"

Pushing your changes to github

git push origin BRANCHNAME