Github And Git Commands

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.

 

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

 

 

 

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)

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

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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