Overview
This cheat sheet will help any new user to understand the basic git commands.You'll discover what git is and how to utilise it
What is GIT?
GIT is a distributed version control system that is free and open-source. It supports non-linear development to accelerate the development process and provides branching facility for several developers working on the same project.
Git Installation-
You can download and install GIT in your working system from the below link for any platform (Mac, windows Or Linux):
And this is the very first step to getting start with the GIT.
Git Setup-
It is pretty easy to setup git in local machine, just you have to understand and run the below commands and that's all to make you have to do to setup GIT.
Configuring user information used across all local repositories
git config --global user.name "[firstname lastname]"
set a name that is identifiable for credit when review version history
git config --global user.email "[valid-email]"
set an email address that will be associated with each history marker
git config --global color.ui auto
set automatic command line coloring for Git for easy reviewing
Git Basic Commands-
Congratulation!🎊 I hope you were able to set up git on your computer now. Once you've set up GIT on your local workstation, you're ready to start learning the fundamental commands for using git to manage multiple versions for your project. So let's get started now.
How to initiate a Git repository is the first command you must learn. To start, open command prompt, go to your project's root directory folder, and run the command below to start git-
git init
to initialize an existing directory as a Git repository
git clone [your repository url]
to retrieve an entire repository from a hosted location via URL
git status
to show modified files in working directory, staged for your next commit
git add [file]
to add a file as it looks now to your next commit (stage). If you have a hell lot file and want to add all of them, just replace [file] with a . and git consider all untracked file and will be added all.
git reset [file]
to unstage a file while retaining the changes in working directory. To unstage all files just you need to type . in place of [file] for the above command.
git commit -m “[descriptive message]”to commit your staged content as a new commit snapshot
git branchto list your branches. a * will appear next to the currently active branch
git branch [branch-name]to create a new branch at the current commit
git remote add [alias] [url]to add a git URL as an alias
git fetch [alias]
to fetch down all the branches from that Git remote
git merge [alias]/[branch]
to merge a remote branch into your current branch to bring it up to date
git push [alias] [branch]
to transmit local branch commits to the remote repository branch
git pull
to fetch and merge any commits from the tracking remote branch
git checkoutto switch to another branch and check it out into your working directory
git merge [branch]
to merge the specified branch’s history into the current one
git log
to show the commit history for the currently active branch
Conclusion-
Thanks a lot for reading and hope now you know how to use git as version controlling tool for your next project. For more information please checkout the official Git Documentation site. And don't forget to hit a 👍 if you find this article helpful. Happy learning! 🎉
Resources-
1.If you want to learn how to just push your code to Github step by step then I would recommend you to watch this video-