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Git: the basic commands every developer should know

Heather Parker on April 01, 2023

Git is useful for anyone who writes code or tracks changes to files, from web developers to app developers. So, what exactly is it, and why should ...
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Sergey Leschev • Edited

I believe you did an excellent job explaining Git and its main components. Their list of 10 essential Git commands is very valuable for beginner developers.

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JPL

This is good article, but also beside this, I think it's important to understand and different things you need to do on local computer (own laptop) and GitHub.
On this link it's little bit explained that things: local computer vs GitHub

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Heather Parker

Completely agree! Thanks for valuable sourceπŸ‘πŸ»

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Heather Parker

Thank you so much, Sergey!

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HaniBikdeli

awesome article, but i would also add git fetch

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Surbhi Dighe

Good Job!!

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Mattias FjellstrΓΆm

I agree that with these commands you can live a whole life with git (if you are lucky, at least). I saw that someone else mentioned git switch, but I'd like to chime in on that command. The purpose of git switch is to switch between branches, or create new branches. All you can do with git switch you can do with git checkout, but git checkout has a lot more use-cases so it is like using a sledgehammer for small nails! :)

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K.S.

A couple of commands I've been using a lot since they came out, is git switch [-c] <branch> to switch to another branch (or create one with -c), and git restore <files> for restoring working tree files. Adding --staged to git restore will just restore the index, i.e. un-stage files.
These two were introduced so there's a distinction between switching branches and restoring the index, which can be achieved by the git checkout command.

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Benoit COUETIL πŸ’«

Hey ! I would replace git init with git reset (because you already have git clone). Hard to live without it.

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byby

If you want to create an alias named "lg" that shows a history of all commits, you could use the following command:

git config --global alias.lg "log --all --graph --decorate --oneline"
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Shabin-k

thank you

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Tim McWilliams

Wish I could figure out how to use my VS Code interface to correctly use my repositories.