GIT Basics

💡 Basic Git commands used in a professional environment.

Breakdown

git init - initialise a Git repository, ergo, let Git know that it should start tracking changes in that folder

git add . - track all changed files, preparing to be committed

git commit -m "message here" - commit files with a message

git push -u origin "branchName" - push to remote for the first time

git stash - temporarily saves changes, often used when the changes are not ready to be committed yet but you need to check out another branch

git checkout -b "newBranchName" - to create a new local branch and switching to it

git switch "existingBranchName" - to switch between existing branches

git pull - fetch changes from remote repository

git merge "branchName" - merge the named branch with the current one

Undo last commit locally and remotely

// undo last commit in your local branch
git reset --hard HEAD~1
// push remote branch forward to match the local one
git push -f

git status - state of the current working tree

git log - spits out a list of all the commits

git stash list - list all the stashes

git stash drop - delete the latest stash

git config:

// set the username
git config --global user.name "username"
// set the email address
git config --global user.email "email@example.com"