Git is a command line tool which is used for for tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development.
The most comman commands in git
1. git config --global user. name Abcd :give username
2. git config --global user. Email abcd@email.com : give email
3. git init : To initialize a git.
4. ls -ltar : to get list of all files in your working directory.
5. git status : Retrieve the current status of your git.
6. git add -A : Used to add a file to staging area.
7. git commit : used to commit the git.
8. git commit -a -m "Doc" : used to commit a git with a
message.
9. git add -A : Used to add a file to staging area.
10. git config --global user.name : to retrieve name of the
user.
11. git checkout abcd.html : this command is used to get the
previously committed file if you by mistakenly deleted
something
12. git checkout -f: used to retrieve all file in the previous
command.
13. git log: It displays user date and time of commit.
14. git log -p -5: last 5 in the previous case.
15. git diff : it compares working directory with staging area.
16. git diff --staged: compare with last commit status.
17. touch a.html : create a file
18. git rm a.html : delete a file from both staging area as well
as commit level
19. git rm --cached a.html : Remove a file from staging area.
20. git status -s : Is used to check modified level in staging are
and working tree
21. touch .gitignore : To create a file to ignore the other files
and folder which
are not very useful and which consumes a lot of memory
power.
working procedure : you have to create this file and inside
this you have to write the file name whish you want to
ignore , eventually what it does is it ignore all the files
which contains that name.
If you you wrote /filename.log it ignore the file containing
that name in his directory.
If you wrote *.log this will ignore all folders containing git
at the end.
22. git branch : It is used to display the number of branches.
23. git checkout branch1 : This command is used to switch
between the branches.
24. git merge feature : this should be run in main branch
to verify you can use git log -p -2
25. git checkout -b branch1 : It will create a new branch and
take you to there without any extra command.
26. git branch -d branch1 : used to delete branch.
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