List of mostly used git commands

• Setting up a local git repo
  • Transform current directory to a git repo
    • git init
  • Empty Git repository in the specified directory
    • git init <directory_name>
• Git Add remote repo
  • • git  remote add <remote_url>
    • Verify: git remote -v
• Clone Remote Git repo
  • git clone <remote_repo_url>
• Git Detail:
  • git  remote show origin
  • git remote -v
• Git Branch List
  • Local: git branch
  • Remote: git branch -r
  • Local and Remote : git branch -a
• Git Branch Create
  • Local: git branch <branch_name>
  • Local checkout: git checkout -b <branch_name>
  • Remote: git push -u <remote_name> <branch_name>
    git push -u origin branch_name
• Git Checkout 
  • git checkout <branch_name>
  • create and checkout local branch: git checkout -b <branch_name>
  • Checkout remote branch
    • git fetch origin / git fetch –all
    • git checkout <branch_name>
    • git branch -a   //They’ll be called something like remotes/origin/branchname
    • git checkout remotes/origin/branchname
• Switch Branch
  • Local: git checkout <branch_name>
• Git Branch Delete
  • Local: git branch -d <branch_name>
    git branch -D <branch_name>   //Force delete git  branch
  • Remote: git push origin –delete <branch_name>
• Git Rename Branch
  • For Current Branch: git branch -m <new_branch_name>
  • For Specific Branch: git branch -m <old_name> <new_name>
• Git Merge
  • Merge Specified branch to current Branch
    • git merge <branch_name>
• Git Stash
  • git stash
  • List stashed changes
    • git stash list
  • Clear all stashed changes list
    • git stash clear

 

 

Sometimes git fetch –all won’t fetch all the remote branch to local. In that follow the following steps.

• git branch -a      <List both remote-tracking branches and local branches.>
  • debugging
  • master
  • * token_refactor
  • remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  • remotes/origin/discussion
  • remotes/origin/master
  • remotes/origin/token_refactor
• git checkout  remotes/origin/token_refactor
  • but when we list local branch with git branch
    • * (HEAD detached from f26f4dc)
    • debugging
    • master
    • * token_refactor
    • remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
    • remotes/origin/discussion
    • remotes/origin/master
    • remotes/origin/token_refactor
  • Here we see the current branch is detached from head this is because any checkout of a commit that is not the name of one of your branches will get you a detached HEAD. A SHA1 which represents the tip of a branch would still give a detached HEAD. Only a checkout of a local branch name avoids that mode. To resolve this problem follow the following steps
• git checkout -b token_refactor <commit_hash>
• git pull origin token_refactor

This will resolve the issue and track the branch.