Git - Most useful GIT COMMANDS

GIT most used commands
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Git init — Initialize git
Git status — check the status
Git add — add files to stage
git status -s — display files and status
Git log — view logs
Git log —oneline — Logs can be viewed in one line
Git diff — updates on the file from HEAD
Git commit -m “message” — Commit the files to local repository
Git config —global user.name — Add user name to git config
Git config —global user.email — Add user email to git config
Git config —list — list all the git configuration

Git remote add origin “git repo” — Add Remote repository to the git
Git remote -v — View Remote repository details
Git push origin -u master — Push the local repository changes to remote

Git diff-tree -r Commit_ID
Git reset --hard Commit_ID — Resets all local repository,stage and working copy to HEAD
Git reset —mixed Commit_ID — Resets all local repository, stage to HEAD and no changes in working copy
Git reset —soft Commit_ID — Resets only local repository and no changes to stage & working copy

Git branch branch_name — Create a branch
Git checkout branch_name — CheckOut Branch

Git checkout -b branch_name — Create a new branch and checkout to it
Git branch —list — List all the branches

Git push origin -u branch_name — Push the local branch to remote


git merge Branch1 — Merge branch ‘B’ into current branch
git fetch —to fetch the remote changes into local repository
git pull — apply remote changes to local working copy

Git rebase master — Rebase the current branch on master

Git clean -n -d — list all the files would delete which are untracked
Git clean -f -d — Delete all the files and directories which are untracked


Git branch -d branch_name — if the branch is fully merged, delete the branch
Git branch -D branch_name — force delete irrespective of merge the changes or not

git push origin --delete feature — delete remote branch


Git Tags:
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Annotated tag : git tag -a tag_name -m "tag_message"
Light weighted tag : git tag tag_name

push tag to remote: git push origin tag_name
git push origin --tags

Delete local tag : git tag --delete tag_name
git tag --d tag_name1 tag_name2
Delete Remote tag : git push origin --delete tag_name
git push origin --d tag_name1 tag_name2

Checkout a branch to tag:
git checkout -b branch_name tag_name

Git stash:
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git stash — create a stash
git stash save “StashName”. Or git stash push -m "modified” — create stash with name instead of HEAD version(default)
git stash push -m "message" file — stash a file
git stash -u — stash untracked files
Git stash list — list all the stashes
git stash branch branch_name stash@{stash_index} — stash into a branch
Git stash apply stash@{stash_index} — apply stash changes into current working dir without deleting the stash
Git stash pop stash@{stash_index} — apply stash changes into current working directory by deleting the stash
git stash show stash@{stash_index} — show the differences between stash and HEAD
git stash show -p stash@{stash_index} — This shows the diff in content
git stash drop stash@{stash_index} — drop the stash
Git stash clear — clear all the stashes