git - basic commands

Before you read this blog entry please read The git parable. It is a nice read to understand the need and reason for git.

basic commands

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#create the repository, first thing when creating a project
git init 

#shows you the current status of your repository
git status 

#adds files or directories to the staging area
git add filename 

#commits the changes from the staging area to the repository
git commit -m 'commit message'  

#shows the repositories graph
gitk --all 

# to check the commits
git log 

# get the last commit info
git log -1 

# file which stores the ignore file patterns
.gitignore 

#to checkout a commit
git checkout SHA1ID 

#to check the differences between working dir and latest commit
git diff 

#diff between those two commits
git diff commit_id1 commit_id2 

#server #to push to a server
git push 

#to manager remotes
git remote 

# to get the latest commits
git fetch

I’ll update this post with more examples as I get the time

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