Git-cheat-sheet

Purpose	Command
Initialise Git	git init
Configure user's username	git config --global user.name “[username]”
Configure user email	git config --global user.email “used-email”
Retrieve entire repo from remote	git clone [url]
Add file to a repo	git add [file]
Add all files	git add .
Create a new file	echo "# repo name" >> [file]
Commit a change	git commit -m "Commit Command"
Check git status	git status
Show all commit history in the current branch	git log
Add remote url to an alias origin	git remote add origin [url]
Set different url to origin alias	git remote set-url origin [url]
Fetch all branches from git remote	git fetch [alias]
Check origin url	git remote -v
Check the available branches	git branch -a
Merge a branch's history to a current branch	git merge [branch]
Create new branch	git branch [branchname]
Show the commits of branchA not in branchB	git log branchB...branchA
Show commits that changed files across renames	git log --follow [file]
Show all commit logs with indication of any paths that moved	git log --stat -M
Switch to another branch and check it out in your directory	git checkout
Push local commit to exisitng repo	git push -u origin master
Push commits fast forwarded	git push -f origin master
Fetch and merge commits from tracking branch	git pull
Uninstall git credentials	git credential-manager uninstall
Install git credentials	git credential-manager install
See what refs you have	git show-ref
Change the ref path	git push origin HEAD:main
Command line color	git config --global color.ui auto
Unstage a file while retaining changes in working directory	git reset [file]
Diff of what is changed but not staged	git diff
Diff of what is staged but not yet committed	git diff --staged
Diff of what is in branchA that is not in branchB	git diff branchB...branchA
Show any object in Git in human readable format	git show [SHA]
Delete the file from project and stage removal for commit	git rm [file]
Change the existing file path and stage move	git mv [existing-path] [new-path]
Apply commit of current branch ahead of specified one	git rebase [branch]
Clear staging area, rewrite working tree from specified commit	git reset --hard [commit]
Save modified and staged changes	git stash
List stack-order of stashed file changes	git stashed list
Write working from top of stash stack	git stash pop
Discard the changes from top of stash stack	git stash drop