Notes: A bunch of usefuly gitcommands

Git workflow

(1) git clone or git pull --> (2) (making changes) git add, git mv, git rm, etc -->(3) git commit -->(4) git pull, git merge -->(5) git push

#Usefull Git commands

$ git log          //shows all the commits that have been made to repo $ git status          //shows any pending changing in the repo waiting to be commited
$ git checkout -f          //Go back to the last working branch and the -f flag force overwrites
$ git push origin NameOfBranch          //push your commited code to branch
$ git pull          //pull the most up to date branch from github
$ git checkout BranchName          //Change to BranchName
$ git checkout -b BranchName        //create a new branch with the name BranchName and-b command flag means new $ git branch          //check what branch you are on and what other branches are avaible
$ git mv OldFile.rdoc NewFile.md          //change the name of a file
$ git commit -a -m "Improve the README file"    //shortcut add, DO NOT USE if you added new files
$ git branch -d BranchName      //delete a branch with the name BranchName

#Setup up your config settings $ git config --global user.name "Your Name"          //Setup Name
$ git config --global user.email [email protected]          //Setup email
$ git config --global push.default matching          //ensure forward-compatibility with an upcoming releases
$ git config --global alias.co checkout          //Short cut to make checkout to co

#Starting a new repo In this case you created a repo online and you want to clone it to your workspace.

$ git clone https://USERNAME:[email protected]/OWNER/REPO_NAME.git workspace
USERNAME with your GitHub username;
PASSWORD with your GitHub password;
OWNER with the username of the person who owns the repository;
REPO_NAME with the name of your project’s repository; and
workspace with the name for your workspace directory. Although optional, we will specify it here to create the workspace directory.

#Starting a local Repo Go to the home folder of the project on the terminal

$ git init
$ git add -A          //Adds all files to be commited
$ git commit -a          //Adds all unstaged files and commits at the same time
$ git commit -m "Initialize repository"          //Commits all files with -m flag to write a comment

To push the local Repo to a github repo

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/USERNAME/NAMEOFREPO.git
$ git push -u origin master