In this tutorial I will give you information about basic github commands like git init, git branch, git clone, git commit, git checkout, branch mearging etc.
GitHub, Inc. is a United States-based global company that provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. Git is an important part of daily programming or working with a team and is widely used in the software industry.
Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.Git is used for maintain your projects, application or code in one place and you can remoltly access this code. Also there are many developers which are used git and github for their project and also you can find solutions of your problems or error via git communities.
Github and git provides many features that your work can be done very easily and fast, Github and Git provides many commands and here i will give some useful commands list with some description.
Command | Description |
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git init |
Initialize a local Git repository |
git clone ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git |
Create a local copy of a remote repository |
Command | Description |
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git status |
Check status |
git add [file-name.txt] Example: $git add index.html |
Add a file to the staging area |
git add -A |
Add all new and changed files to the staging area |
git commit -m "[commit message]" |
Commit changes |
git rm -r [file-name.txt] |
Remove a file (or folder) |
Command | Description |
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git branch |
List branches (the asterisk denotes the current branch) |
git branch -a |
List all branches (local and remote) |
git branch [branch name] |
Create a new branch |
git branch -d [branch name] |
Delete a branch |
git push origin --delete [branch name] Example: $git push origin master |
Delete a remote branch |
git checkout -b [branch name] Example: $git checkout development_branch |
Create a new branch and switch to it |
git checkout -b [branch name] origin/[branch name] |
Clone a remote branch and switch to it |
git branch -m [old branch name] [new branch name] |
Rename a local branch |
git checkout [branch name] |
Switch to a branch |
git checkout - |
Switch to the branch last checked out |
git checkout -- [file-name.txt] |
Discard changes to a file |
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Merge a branch into the active branch |
git merge [source branch] [target branch] |
Merge a branch into a target branch |
git stash |
Stash changes in a dirty working directory |
git stash clear |
Remove all stashed entries |
Command | Description |
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git push origin [branch name] |
Push a branch to your remote repository |
git push -u origin [branch name] |
Push changes to remote repository (and remember the branch) |
git push |
Push changes to remote repository (remembered branch) |
git push origin --delete [branch name] |
Delete a remote branch |
git pull |
Update local repository to the newest commit |
git pull origin [branch name] Example: $git pull origin master |
Pull changes from remote repository |
git remote add origin ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git |
Add a remote repository |
git remote set-url origin ssh://git@github.com/[username]/[repository-name].git |
Set a repository's origin branch to SSH |
Command | Description |
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git log |
View changes |
git log --summary |
View changes (detailed) |
git log --oneline |
View changes (briefly) |
git diff [source branch] [target branch] |
Preview changes before merging |
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