I recommend printing this post and/or having it handy on another device while working on Git on your PC.

Project Dev. Sequence

This is a useful and common command sequence used to pass changes to a Github/Git project:

git status
git diff 
git add .   
git commit -m "changes to all files" 
git push

Short explanations to each of them:

git status inspect / check the files that have been changed in the working directory
git diff [filename] check the specific changes made on the selected, changed file. Useful for writing the commit message.
git add [filename] stage changes to the selected file. This command adds the change to the staging area
git add . stage changes to all changed files
git commit -m "[commit message]" pass changes to the local repository (i.e. to the folder in your local computer)
git push push these passed changes to the server (the Github page / internet)

Create a Repository

Locally

In computer:

• Make a folder, name it with your desired repository name, add stuff to it.
• Open terminal in that folder and type git init.
• Keep the terminal open.

In Github:

• Click on "+" sign on top-right corner of / New Repository...
• Add info on that page and then click on "Create Repository" green button.
• Copy-paste manual guidelines on next page (starts with "echo README" I think) to open terminal from above.
• git push. You're done!

Easier way

In Github:

• Click on "+" sign on top-right corner of / New Repository...
• Add info on that page and then click on "Create Repository" green button.
• ... Ignore next page and go to the next option.
• While in new repository, click on green "Code" button and copy https/ssh address (I typically copy the ssh one).

In computer:

• Open terminal and type git clone [copied-address-from-GitHub]. You're done!

Branches

Basic commands

# create a new branch
git checkout -b [your-new-branch-name]

# check the names of all your branches
git branch

# go to a particular branch
git checkout [your-branch-name]

# transfer all information from a "source" branch to a "sink" branch
git checkout [sink-branch-name]
git merge [source-branch-name]

# delete branch locally (computer)
git branch -d [your-branch-name]

# delete branch remotely ("on GitHub")
git push origin --delete [your-branch-name]

Rename branch

# checkout to master branch
git checkout main
# local 
git branch -m [old-branch-name] [new-branch-name]
# remote (Github)
git push origin [new-branch-name]
git push origin --delete [old-branch-name]

Add all content from a fork to a larger repository

To add all the content from your GitHub fork to the larger repository, you can follow these steps:

# Clone the larger library repository to your local machine using the git clone command
git clone https://github.com/larger-repo.git

# Add the fork as a remote to your local clone of the larger library repository using the git remote add command.
git remote add fork https://github.com/[your-username]/[forked-repo-name].git

# Fetch the changes from the fork and switch to a new local branch that will track the forked repository's changes
git fetch fork
git switch -c branch-fork fork/main

# Checkout to the main branch of the larger repo
git checkout main 

# Merge the changes from the fork into your local clone of the larger library repository using the git merge command with the --allow-unrelated-histories flag 
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories branch-fork

# Commit the changes
git commit -m "Merge contents from fork to larger repo"

# Push the changes to the main branch of the larger repository
git push origin main

Undoing Stuff

Revert modified files not yet staged for commit

git restore [filename]  

Let's say you have a file with code that you had previously pushed and you made changes to the code; this command does an UNDO on those changes made.

Undo a commit

On your Github repository, Click on the commits counter below the Code button

Let's say I want to undo the first commit, then I would copy its hash (95f0e33) and run the following command:

git revert 95f0e33 

Temporarily revert to previous commit

git checkout [commit_ID]  #go to the former code commit / version
git checkout master #go back to current version

Remove files listed on .gitignore which have been previously committed (i.e. "not gitignored")

git rm -r --cached .;
git add .;
git commit -m "gitignored files deleted from remote!"

Make Git Remember Your Username and Password

Watch this video around the 3:29 timestamp
Generating an SSH Key 3:29

Adapt SSH key to repositories

'''new repository'''
git clone git@github.com:[user]/[repository].git

'''or if already created repository'''
cat .git/config  #displays local information of repository
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:[user]/[repository].git  #this is the command which sets  the key to your local repository.

Find all folders which are linked to Github repositories in a specific folder (Linux users)

While in folder to search, you may open a Terminal and type the following:

find -name ".git"  #simple
'''or'''
find -name ".git" -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 cat #in alphabetical order (may take long to compile IF several git repositories synced)