Github And Git Commands

Websolutionstuff | Jul-15-2020 | Categories : Laravel PHP

GitHub, Inc. is a United States-based global company that provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. Git is used to maintain your projects, application, or code in one place and you can remotely access this code.

Also, there are many developers which are used git and GitHub for their projects,s and also you can find solutions to your problems or error via git communities.

GitHub and git provide many features that your work can be done very easily and fast, GitHub and Git provide many commands and here we will give some useful commands list with some descriptions.

Getting & Creating Projects

 

Command Description
git init Initialize a local Git repository
git clone ssh://[email protected]/[username]/[repository-name].git Create a local copy of a remote repository

 

 

Basic Snapshotting

 

Command Description
git status Check status
git add [file-name.txt] Example: $git add index.html Add a file to the staging area
git add -A Add all new and changed files to the staging area
git commit -m "[commit message]" Commit changes
git rm -r [file-name.txt] Remove a file (or folder)

 

Branching & Merging

 

Command Description
git branch List branches (the asterisk denotes the current branch)
git branch -a List all branches (local and remote)
git branch [branch name] Create a new branch
git branch -d [branch name] Delete a branch
git push origin --delete [branch name] Example: $git push origin master Delete a remote branch
git checkout -b [branch name] Example: $git checkout development_branch Create a new branch and switch to it
git checkout -b [branch name] origin/[branch name] Clone a remote branch and switch to it
git branch -m [old branch name] [new branch name] Rename a local branch
git checkout [branch name] Switch to a branch
git checkout - Switch to the branch last checked out
git checkout -- [file-name.txt] Discard changes to a file

git merge [branch name]

Example :
git checkout -b dev

# Edit some files
git add <file>
git commit -m "commit changes"

# Merge in the dev branch
git checkout master
git merge dev
git branch -d dev

Merge a branch into the active branch
git merge [source branch] [target branch] Merge a branch into a target branch
git stash Stash changes in a dirty working directory
git stash clear Remove all stashed entries

 

 

Sharing & Updating Projects

 

Command Description
git push origin [branch name] Push a branch to your remote repository
git push -u origin [branch name] Push changes to remote repository (and remember the branch)
git push Push changes to remote repository (remembered branch)
git push origin --delete [branch name] Delete a remote branch
git pull Update local repository to the newest commit
git pull origin [branch name] Example: $git pull origin master Pull changes from remote repository
git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]/[username]/[repository-name].git Add a remote repository
git remote set-url origin ssh://[email protected]/[username]/[repository-name].git Set a repository's origin branch to SSH

 

Inspection & Comparison

 

Command Description
git log View changes
git log --summary View changes (detailed)
git log --oneline View changes (briefly)
git diff [source branch] [target branch] Preview changes before merging

 


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