git-tips/tips.json

[{
	"title": "Everyday Git in twenty commands or so",
	"tip": "git help everyday"
}, {
	"title": "Show helpful guides that come with Git",
	"tip": "git help -g"
}, {
	"title": "Overwrite pull",
	"tip": "git fetch --all && git reset --hard origin/master"
}, {
	"title": "List of all files till a commit",
	"tip": "git ls-tree --name-only -r <commit-ish>"
}, {
	"title": "Git reset first commit",
	"tip": "git update-ref -d HEAD"
}, {
	"title": "List all the conflicted files",
	"tip": "git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U"
}, {
	"title": "List of all files changed in a commit",
	"tip": "git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r <commit-ish>"
}, {
	"title": "Unstaged changes since last commit",
	"tip": "git diff"
}, {
	"title": "Changes staged for commit",
	"tip": "git diff --cached"
}, {
	"title": "Show both staged and unstaged changes",
	"tip": "git diff HEAD"
}, {
	"title": "List all branches that are already merged into master",
	"tip": "git checkout master && git branch --merged"
}, {
	"title": "Quickly switch to the previous branch",
	"tip": "git checkout -"
}, {
	"title": "Remove branches that have already been merged with master",
	"tip": "git branch --merged | grep -v '\\*' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d"
}, {
	"title": "List all branches and their upstreams, as well as last commit on branch",
	"tip": "git branch -vv"
}, {
	"title": "Track upstream branch",
	"tip": "git branch -u origin/mybranch"
}, {
	"title": "Delete local branch",
	"tip": "git branch -d <local_branchname>"
}, {
	"title": "Delete remote branch",
	"tip": "git push origin --delete <remote_branchname>",
	"alternatives": ["git push origin :<remote_branchname>"]
}, {
	"title": "Undo local changes with the last content in head",
	"tip": "git checkout -- <file_name>"
}, {
	"title": "Revert: Undo a commit by creating a new commit",
	"tip": "git revert <commit-ish>"
}, {
	"title": "Reset: Discard commits, advised for private branch",
	"tip": "git reset <commit-ish>"
}, {
	"title": "Reword the previous commit message",
	"tip": "git commit -v --amend"
}, {
	"title": "Amend author.",
	"tip": "git commit --amend --author='Author Name <email@address.com>'"
}, {
	"title": "Reset author, after author has been changed in the global config.",
	"tip": "git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit"
}, {
	"title": "Changing a remote's URL",
	"tip": "git remote set-url origin <URL>"
}, {
	"title": "Get list of all remote references",
	"tip": "git remote",
	"alternatives": ["git remote show"]
}, {
	"title": "Get list of all local and remote branches",
	"tip": "git branch -a"
}, {
	"title": "Get only remote branches",
	"tip": "git branch -r"
}, {
	"title": "Stage parts of a changed file, instead of the entire file",
	"tip": "git add -p"
}, {
	"title": "Get git bash completion",
	"tip": "curl http://git.io/vfhol > ~/.git-completion.bash && echo '[ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ] && . ~/.git-completion.bash' >> ~/.bashrc"
}, {
	"title": "What changed since two weeks?",
	"tip": "git whatchanged --since='2 weeks ago'"
}, {
	"title": "See all commits made since forking from master",
	"tip": "git log --no-merges --stat --reverse master.."
}, {
	"title": "Pick commits across branches using cherry-pick",
	"tip": "git checkout <branch-name> && cherry-pick <commit-ish>"
}, {
	"title": "Find out branches containing commit-hash",
	"tip": "git branch -a --contains <commit-ish>",
	"alternatives": ["git branch --contains <commit-ish>"]
}, {
	"title": "Git Aliases",
	"tip": "git config --global alias.<handle> <command> \ngit config --global alias.st status"
}, {
	"title": "Saving current state of tracked files without commiting",
	"tip": "git stash",
	"alternatives": ["git stash save"]
}, {
	"title": "Saving current state including untracked files",
	"tip": "git stash save -u",
	"alternatives": ["git stash save --include-untracked"]
}, {
	"title": "Show list of all saved stashes",
	"tip": "git stash list"
}, {
	"title": "Apply any stash without deleting from the stashed list",
	"tip": "git stash apply <stash@{n}>"
}, {
	"title": "Apply last stashed state and delete it from stashed list",
	"tip": "git stash pop",
	"alternatives": ["git stash apply stash@{0} && git stash drop stash@{0}"]
}, {
	"title": "Delete all stored stashes",
	"tip": "git stash clear",
	"alternatives": ["git stash drop <stash@{n}>"]
}, {
	"title": "Grab a single file from a stash",
	"tip": "git checkout <stash@{n}> -- <file_path>",
	"alternatives": ["git checkout stash@{0} -- <file_path>"]
}, {
	"title": "Show all tracked files",
	"tip": "git ls-files -t"
}, {
	"title": "Show all untracked files",
	"tip": "git ls-files --others"
}, {
	"title": "Show all ignored files",
	"tip": "git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard"
}, {
	"title": "Create new working tree from a repository (git 2.5)",
	"tip": "git worktree add -b <branch-name> <path> <start-point>"
}, {
	"title": "Create new working tree from HEAD state",
	"tip": "git worktree add --detach <path> HEAD"
}, {
	"title": "Untrack files without deleting",
	"tip": "git rm --cached <file_path>",
	"alternatives": ["git rm --cached -r <directory_path>"]
}, {
	"title": "Before deleting untracked files/directory, do a dry run to get the list of these files/directories",
	"tip": "git clean -n"
}, {
	"title": "Forcefully remove untracked files",
	"tip": "git clean -f"
}, {
	"title": "Forcefully remove untracked directory",
	"tip": "git clean -f -d",
	"alternatives": ["git clean -df"]
}, {
	"title": "Update all the submodules",
	"tip": "git submodule foreach git pull"
}, {
	"title": "Show all commits in the current branch yet to be merged to master",
	"tip": "git cherry -v master",
	"alternatives": ["git cherry -v master <branch-to-be-merged>"]
}, {
	"title": "Rename a branch",
	"tip": "git branch -m <new-branch-name>",
	"alternatives": ["git branch -m [<old-branch-name>] <new-branch-name>"]
}, {
	"title": "rebases 'feature' to 'master' and merges it in to master ",
	"tip": "git checkout feature && git rebase @{-1} && git checkout @{-2} && git merge @{-1}"
}, {
	"title": "Archive the `master` branch",
	"tip": "git archive master --format=zip --output=master.zip"
}, {
	"title": "Modify previous commit without modifying the commit message",
	"tip": "git add --all && git commit --amend --no-edit"
}, {
	"title": "Prunes branches that have been deleted in the remote.",
	"tip": "git fetch -p",
	"alternatives": ["git remote prune origin"]
}, {
	"title": "Retrieve the commit hash of the initial revision.",
	"tip": " git rev-list --reverse HEAD | head -1"
}, {
	"title": "Visualize the version tree.",
	"tip": "git log --pretty=oneline --graph --decorate --all",
	"alternatives": ["gitk --all"]
}, {
	"title": "Deploying git tracked subfolder to gh-pages",
	"tip": "git subtree push --prefix subfolder_name origin gh-pages",
	"alternatives": "git subtree push --prefix subfolder_name origin branch_name"
}, {
	"title": "Adding a project to repo using subtree",
	"tip": "git subtree add --prefix=<directory_name>/<project_name> --squash git@github.com:<username>/<project_name>.git master"
}, {
	"title": "Get latest changes in your repo for a linked project using subtree",
	"tip": "git subtree pull --prefix=<directory_name>/<project_name> --squash git@github.com:<username>/<project_name>.git master"
}, {
	"title": "Export a branch with history to the a file.",
	"tip": "git bundle create <file> <branch-name>"
}, {
	"title": "Import from a bundle",
	"tip": "git clone repo.bundle <repo-dir> -b <branch-name>"
}, {
	"title": "Get the name of current branch.",
	"tip": "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
}, {
	"title": "Ignore one file on commit (e.g. Changelog).",
	"tip": "git update-index --assume-unchanged Changelog; git commit -a; git update-index --no-assume-unchanged Changelog"
}, {
	"title": "Stash changes before rebasing",
	"tip": "git rebase --autostash"
}, {
	"title": "Fetch pull request by ID to a local branch",
	"tip": "git fetch origin pull/<id>/head:<branch-name>",
	"alternatives": ["git pull origin pull/<id>/head:<branch-name>"]
}, {
	"title": "Show the most recent tag on the current branch.",
	"tip": "git describe --tags --abbrev=0"
}, {
	"title": "Show inline word diff.",
	"tip": "git diff --word-diff"
}, {
	"title": "Don’t consider changes for tracked file.",
	"tip": "git update-index --assume-unchanged <file_name>"
}, {
	"title": "Undo assume-unchanged.",
	"tip": "git update-index --no-assume-unchanged <file_name>"
}, {
	"title": "Clean the files from `.gitignore`.",
	"tip": "git clean -X -f"
}, {
	"title": "Restore deleted file.",
	"tip": "git checkout <deleting_commit>^ -- <file_path>"
}, {
	"title": "Restore file to a specific commit-hash",
	"tip": "git checkout <commit-ish> -- <file_path>"
}, {
	"title": "Always rebase instead of merge on pull.",
	"tip": "git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always"
}, {
	"title": "List all the alias and configs.",
	"tip": "git config --list"
}, {
	"title": "Make git case sensitive.",
	"tip": "git config --global core.ignorecase false"
}, {
	"title": "Auto correct typos.",
	"tip": "git config --global help.autocorrect 1"
}, {
	"title": "Check if the change was a part of a release.",
	"tip": "git name-rev --name-only <SHA-1>"
}, {
	"title": "Dry run. (any command that supports dry-run flag should do.)",
	"tip": "git clean -fd --dry-run"
}, {
	"title": "Marks your commit as a fix of a previous commit.",
	"tip": "git commit --fixup <SHA-1>"
}, {
	"title": "squash fixup commits normal commits.",
	"tip": "git rebase -i --autosquash"
}, {
	"title": "skip staging area during commit.",
	"tip": "git commit -am 'commit message'"
},{
	"title": "List ignored files.",
	"tip": "git check-ignore *"
},{
	"title": "Status of ignored files.",
	"tip": "git status --ignored"
},{
	"title": "Commits in Branch1 that are not in Branch2",
	"tip": "git log Branch1 ^Branch2"
}]