I’ve been using and learning git a bunch lady, so I started jotting down some of the basics I found myself using often and wanting to make sure I remembered and left a note in the plainest language possible about what it does. Figured it’d be worth putting out there. I’ll probably add a few more as I find myself in recurring situations.

git remote update

• update all branches references with remote ones. No merge. More all-encompassing than git fetch, which only updates the branch you’re on. Good place to start if you want to make sure your local git knows what’s happened on the server.

git add .;git commit -m ‘message header’ -m ‘message body’;git push

• all on one line will add any tracked or untracked files, commit them with the message with -m and then push them up to the server. Second -m can be cut if you have no message body text you care to put in the commit.

git commit -am ‘message text’;git push

• Like the above, except for when you haven’t added any new files. Good for quick updates.

git clean -dfx

• nuke everything that’s untracked. good use in conjunction with “git reset –hard branchName” to make a branch up to date with remote and just say goodbye to whatever you had locally. I find this useful when it’s been a while since I’ve pulled something down and know I don’t care about whatever I last had locally.

git checkout -b branchName

• Will create a new branch of branchName and move you into that branch

git branch -d branchName

• Delete a branch

git stash apply stash@{#}

• apply the stash to your current branch. If you don’t specify a stash, it will assume the most recent.

git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all

• Show your commits, but pretty

git config --global --edit

• open your .gitconfig file in yoru C:\users\user folder in a text editor so you can see and update all your config settings. If you append –local instead of –global, it will open the config file for the specific branch you’re in.