Git diff will shows the diff of the unstaged files while with --staged flag it will shows the diff of which changes are there to be committed.
git commit -a -m 'added new benchmarks'
Add all untrack files and commit(Staging will not happen during this commit)
git rm --cached FILENAME
This command will remove the given file from the repository but will keep the file in local repository
git mv file_from file_to
Renaming a file.
git log -p -2
Difference introduce by last two commits
git log --stat
Overall changes happen in each commit.
git log --pretty=oneline
Show git log with each commit in single line without deeper details.
git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"
Format log as follow
ca82a6d - Scott Chacon, 6 years ago : changed the version number
git log --pretty=format:"%h %s" --graph
Gives graphs like view for log
git log -Sfunction_name
Git search for the commits which introduce changes in given string
git log --pretty="%h - %s" --author=gitster --since="2008-10-01" \
Search for commits which made by author gister since the given date.
git commit --amend
Sometime we forget to add files and commit. At that case we can add those files and using this command it will append those changes to the previous commit.
git reset HEAD CONTRIBUTING.md
Undo changes in staging area
git fetch [remote-name]
Update the remote branches with local. After that you can rebase or checkout them.
git remote show origin
More detailed output of origin witth tracked branches and deleted ones.
git remote rename pb paul
Rename remote server name
git remote rm paul
Remove git remote
git tag
List available tags
git tag -a v1.4 -m 'my version 1.4'
Create a annotated tag
git show v1.4
Git show tag info
git tag -a v1.2 9fceb02
Tag specific commit.
git push origin v1.5 or git push origin --tags
Push single tag or all tags
git log --oneline --decorate
Detailed commit log view with which commit that each branch currently in.
git branch -v
Branches with commits
git branch --merged ( --no-merged )
Branches that are merged, branches without * is good to delete.
Compare which comments are on a branch that doesn't contain in other branch
git add -i
Very useful command to interactive staging and untaging and etc. Staging part of lines also possible
git stash
If you don't wanna commit changes and need to switch branches
git stash list
List number of stashes and descriptions
git stash apply | git stash apply stash@{2}
Re apply the stashed changes , but this will not staged newly created files. You need to execute it with git stash apply --index
git stash drop
Drop the last stash
git add -i
Very useful command to interactive staging and untaging and etc. Staging part of lines also possible
git stash
If you don't wanna commit changes and need to switch branches
git stash list
List number of stashes and descriptions
git stash apply | git stash apply stash@{2}
Re apply the stashed changes , but this will not staged newly created files. You need to execute it with git stash apply --index
git stash drop
Drop the last stash
