git-tips

Collection of git-tips, want to add your tips? Checkout contributing.md

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Tools:

• git-tip - A handy CLI to make optimum use of these tips. (Here in Docker container)

P.S: All these commands are tested on git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66).

• Everyday Git in twenty commands or so
• Show helpful guides that come with Git
• Search change by content
• Show changes over time for specific file
• Remove sensitive data from history, after a push
• Sync with remote, overwrite local changes
• List of all files till a commit
• Git reset first commit
• Reset: preserve uncommitted local changes
• List all the conflicted files
• List of all files changed in a commit
• Unstaged changes since last commit
• Changes staged for commit
• Show both staged and unstaged changes
• List all branches that are already merged into master
• Quickly switch to the previous branch
• Remove branches that have already been merged with master
• List all branches and their upstreams, as well as last commit on branch
• Track upstream branch
• Delete local branch
• Delete remote branch
• Create local tag
• Delete local tag
• Delete remote tag
• Undo local changes with the last content in head
• Revert: Undo a commit by creating a new commit
• Reset: Discard commits, advised for private branch
• Reword the previous commit message
• See commit history for just the current branch
• Amend author.
• Reset author, after author has been changed in the global config.
• Changing a remote's URL
• Get list of all remote references
• Get list of all local and remote branches
• Get only remote branches
• Stage parts of a changed file, instead of the entire file
• Get git bash completion
• What changed since two weeks?
• See all commits made since forking from master
• Pick commits across branches using cherry-pick
• Find out branches containing commit-hash
• Git Aliases
• Saving current state of tracked files without commiting
• Saving current state of unstaged changes to tracked files
• Saving current state including untracked files
• Saving current state with message
• Saving current state of all files (ignored, untracked, and tracked)
• Show list of all saved stashes
• Show the contents of any stash in patch form
• Apply any stash without deleting from the stashed list
• Apply last stashed state and delete it from stashed list