paliwal-jatin/git_practice

Usefull Git commands

to initialize git repo in a folder

git init 

to clone a git repo to your system

git clone username@host:/path/to/repo

to check if a directory is a git repo

git rev-parse --is-inside-tree

to add changes to the git repo

git add filename or git add *

to commit these changes to your git repo

git commit -m "commit message"

to push these changes to the local repo

git push origin master -- "if do not want to add changes to master branch then add changes to any other branch instead of master" -->>> if there is an issue while doing commit of username then do git config credential.username your_username

to see the git log tree

git log --graph --oneline --all

to go to a new branch

git checkout -b branch_name

to go to an already existing branch

git checkout branch_name

to delete a branch

git branch -d branch_name

to merge different branches together

git merge branch_name

to set global username and email

git config --global user.name "user_name" git config --global user.email "mail id"

to set repository specific username and email

git config user.name "user_name" git config user.email "mail id"

This command shows the file differences which are not yet staged.

git diff git diff -staged

This command unstages the file, but it preserves the file contents.

git reset [filename]

This command undoes all the commits after the specified commit and preserves the changes locally.

git reset [commit]

This command discards all history and goes back to the specified commit.

git reset –hard [commit]