Git Cheat Sheet

Common GIT Commands

simple GIT commands Cheat Sheet that will help you with GIT and will make you understand how and when should you use which command

• Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one

 git init

• Add files

git add <file_name>

• Add modified and untracked files

git add.

• Save your changes to the local repository

git commit -m 'commit message'

• Modify the most recent commit

git commit --amend

• Display the state of the working directory and the staging area
  

 git status

• Display the state of the working directory and the staging area in short format

git status --short

• Discard all changes and replace the version of the file you have in working directory with the one you have in staging area

git checkout -- <file_name>

• Takes your uncommitted changes (both staged and unstaged), saves them away for later use
  

git stash

• Shows the existing stash entries
  

git stash list

• List the available tags in repository
  

git tag
git show
git tag -l ".*"

• Revert the changes that you just made and go back to the files that you had
  

git reset HEAD <file_name>

• Remove individual files or a collection of files
  

git rm <file_name>

• Move files within a git repository without deleting its history
  

 git mv <source> <destination>

• List commits made in repository in reverse chronological order
  

 git log

• Create a new connection record to a remote repository
  

 git remote add [remote_name] [remote_URL]

• List available repositories

git remote

• Clone a remote repository to your local machine
  

git clone [repository_URL]
Example: git clone https://github.com/abdelrahman-etry/Laravel-Stripe.git

• Fetch data from an origin

git fetch [remote-name]
Example:  git fetch origin

• Upload local repository content to a remote repository
  

git push [remote-name] [branch-name]
Example : git push origin master

• Tidy repository by deleting untracked files
  

 git clean -f -d