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Git Commands ( to ease your development 🤗 )

Shivam on June 23, 2022

Git is a prevalent version control system ( VCS ) used by most programmers. In this blog, I am going to share some tips with basic commands to make...
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Asanka

Good summary for useful basic git commands.

git stash pop only retrieves the first item (stash@{0}) from the stash list and then the index is refreshed (stash@{1} if it was there becomes the stash@{0} to take the place of the one popped out)

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Shivam

Thanks for correction, done updating. 👊

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protium • Edited

Aliases are also totally needed for productivity 💪🏼. Theses are the ones I use the most:

# checkout or create new branch
ck = "!f() { git checkout $1 2>/dev/null || git checkout -b $1; }; f"

sync = !git pull origin main --rebase
up = !git push -u origin `git branch --show-current`

main = checkout main
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Ritam Chakraborty


git commit -am "Your commit message"

Changed my life. Read more about it here

stackoverflow.com/questions/429896...

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Shivam

Added ✌️

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Zafer Gurel • Edited

If you're working with a remote repository and want to see the location of this remote repo, the following command might be helpful:

git remote -v

In addition to that, tagging is also a crucial feature of git. So, git tag command is also worth exploring.

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Erik Garces Matos

Good summary,

A tip:
We also can to put untracked files in stash, like this:

git stash --include-untracked

or

git stash -u

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Shivam

Sure I will be adding it soon. Thanks for suggestion

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Nathan Stevenson • Edited

Let me introduce you to git reflog!

While git log shows us the repository's public commit history, git reflog (or git reference log) shows us our workplace-specific local commit history.

I'll tell you why this is important.

Ever accidentally mess up a rebase and lose everything in the last few commits? You check you log and there's no trace of the last several hours worth of work to be found? Oops

With reflog, no problemo. It will shown you those commits you thought were gonezo. Run the command, identify the latest commit, make note of the branch tip and run:

git reset --hard my-branch-tip-before-rebase

A sanity saver, for sure. Learned from experiencing my own moment of panic.

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ThemeSelection

Great one...!!

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Yolit Zacarías

Excellent summary!!

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Minhaj T

really helpful :)

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Robson Muniz

Great Content, thanks for sharing it🙏
I'm working on a video explaining how to use Git Version control in VS Code.
Happy Coding my friends!

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Andrew Baisden

Very good article!

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leeuw

appreciated bro 👍.

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Djilou

Awesome post, will surely share it with my co-workers 👌👋

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Yongchang He

Thank you for sharing this article!

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Mostafa Said

Great article! Very useful and informative 👍

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Oscar Lancheros

This is a good summary, thanks for sharing. And just as a comment,I think, as someone said below, you have to include git rebase in this post.

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Shrihari Mohan

I always use rebase which is a good thing when comparing with pull . Just wanted to add that here!

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Shivam

I will be adding more command to the blog, and will keep in mind about this one.✌️

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Really helpful guide thanks for this amazing work Shivam 🙏

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Shivam

Glad I could help 🤗

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Matt

I never knew how to use git stash before, makes sense to me now, thank you so much!

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Shivam

Glad I could help

 
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Shivam

No, I know what it means 😂

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Shivam

Yeah sure I will look into that 👊

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Shivam

Open to suggestions 😊

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Data_paradox

Very nice summary ❤️