GIT Cheat Sheet

init — Create an empty GIT repository in your development directory

1. Go to directory
2. git init

status — Show the current state of the repository including un-added and un-committed files

• git status

add — Add a file to the repository staging area

1. Create a file, e.g. file.txt
2. git add file.txt

Add all new or changed files to the repository staging area (the period means all)

• git add .

commit — Commit all changes to the repository for first time (-m means message)

• git commit –m “Initial commit”

Commit all changes to the repository for later activities

• git commit –m “Description of changes being made to project”

branch — Create a new branch of the project

1. Choose a name for the new branch (original branch is master), e.g. test
2. git branch test

List all branches (* appears next to current branch)

• git branch

checkout — Switch branches and check-out all files (e.g. to test branch)

• git checkout test

Create a new branch and check-out files in one command

• git checkout –b test

merge — Merge two branches together (go to the destination branch first, e.g. master)

1. git checkout master
2. git merge test

(delete) — Delete a branch that you no longer need (e.g. after a merge)

• git branch test –d

Or to force the delete:

• git branch test –D

log — View commit history (including long commit ID numbers)

• git log

revert — Revert all files back to a previous commit point

• git revert <long commit ID from the log command>

rm -cache

• Removes cache from a specific file so that it can be added to the .gitignore