Basic Commands
To init a repository within a folder:
git init
To set your global username/email configuration:
git config --global user.name 'contact@jtrainer.education' git config --global user.email 'contact@jtrainer.education'
To clone a remote repository:
git clone https://mygitrepository.com/user/repository.git
To check the status of the working repository (current branch, changed files…)
git status
See recent commit history
git log
Revert to the moment before one commit
# reset the index to the desired tree
git reset 56b07fcad
# move the branch pointer back to the previous HEAD
git reset --soft HEAD@{1}
git commit -m "Revert to 56b07fcad"
# Update working copy to reflect the new commit
git reset --hard
To checkout a remote branch
git checkout -b [branch1] origin/[branch1]
Advanced Commands
This command make a list of the remote branches (origin) and print an ordered list of the last commits
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r
The following command make a list of the local branches (refs) and print them in a ordered list based on last commit date:
git for-each-ref --sort='-committerdate:iso8601' --format=' %(committerdate:iso8601)%09%(refname)' refs/heads
To show the list of files that differentiate two branches:
git diff --name-only branch1 branch2
To see differences between two commits
git diff COMMIT1_SHA COMMIT2_SHA
To rename branches remotely (without renaming any local branches) you can do in this way:
git push origin origin/branch1_OLD:refs/heads/branch1_OLD :branch1_NEW
