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A Git cheat sheet – $get git

DAY 29 - A Git cheat sheet – $get git - Day Twenty Nine

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Git Commands Comes handy

Git is a highly matured open-source software that is famous for tracking changes and collaboration among programmers. Git plays a major role in DevOPS for source code management.

The git is very efficient in speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows

Basic Git commands

  • Clone a repository
git clone [url]
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  • Start a new repository
git init [repository]
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  • Add file to the staging area
git add [filename]
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  • Save changes to repository & commit
git add .
git commit -m " my first commit"
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  • Status of repository
git status 
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  • Show difference which you are not staged
git log
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  • Differences between the two branches – branch_1 and branch_2
git diff branch_1 branch_2
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  • Get the entire commit history
git diff branch_1 branch_2 
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Git Undo

  • Undo the previous commit
git revert HEAD^ 
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  • Revoke from the staging area but leave the working directory unchanged
git reset [file] 
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  • Shows which files be removed from the working directory
git clean -n 
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Git Branches

  • List all branchs
git branch
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  • Create new branch
git branch [NameOfBranch]
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  • List all branches
git branch -a
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  • Deleting a branch
git branch -d [NameOfBranch]
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  • Merging all changes to current branch
git merge [NameOfBranch]
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  • Checking an existing branch
git checkout [NameOfBranch]
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Git Tag

  • Creating a tag
git tag [TagName]
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  • Deleting a tag
git tag -d [TagName] 
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  • Push tags
git push --tags
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Git Remote repositories

  • Getting latest version of the repository
git pull[NameOfBranch] [url]
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  • Gets a specific [branch] from the repo
git fetch [remote_url] [branch] 
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  • Get speficif remote copy of branch
git pull [remote_url]
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  • Push branch to remote
git push [remote_url] [BrnaceName]
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Git Delete

  • Deleting file – Force
git rm -f [NameOfFile]
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  • Remove the entire Directory from the working index
git rem -r --cached [NameofDirecotry]
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  • Deleting an entire directory
git rm -r -f [NameofFile]
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Top comments (2)

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Patrick Wendo

What does a tag do specifically?

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Anuvindh

Tag is name that points to commit, in other words Tags helps to navigate to a specific point of your repo.

Let’s say you wanna give a release using tag you can name the release or tag the release like v0.1 or v1.2.

The use case is mainly to restore your data to a specific point on your commit .