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Git

Sections

  1. Basics
  2. Branching
  3. Making Changes
  4. Tagging
  5. Exporting

1. Basics

Command Comments 
git fetch
 git fetch just "downloads" the changes from the remote to your local repository. 
git pull
 git pull downloads the changes and merges them into your current branch, making it a fetch + merge.
Always pull after committing. 
git ls-remote
 List all references (branches and heads) along with the SHA1 of their latest commits.

2. Branching

Command Comments 
git branch
 List branches (the asterisk denotes the current branch) 
git branch -a
 List all branches (local and remote) 
git checkout -b <branch>
git push -u origin <branch>
 Create a branch and switch to it at the same time. 
git checkout master
git pull
git pull origin <branch>
git push
 Merge a branch into master. 
git push -d origin <branch>
 Delete a remote branch 
git branch -d <branch>
 Delete a local branch

3. Making Changes

Command Comments 
git rm -r --cached <folder>
git commit -a -m "Removes <folder>"
 Forget a folder (or file) that had been committed earlier. 
git reset --hard <commit_hash>
 Revert repo to a previous commit

4. Tagging

Command Comments 
git tag 0.1
git push --tags"
 Tag the last commit and push the tag(s). 
git tag -d 0.1
git push origin :0.1"
 Delete a tag and push the change. 
git tag
 List local tags. 
git ls-remote --tags origin
 List remote tags on origin.

5. Exporting

Command Comments 
git archive --format zip --output /full/path/to/zipfile.zip <commit_hash>
 Export a zip archive of a specific commit.
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