[{ "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 " }, { "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 " }, { "title": "Unstaged changes since last commit", "tip": "git diff" }, { "title": "Changes staged for commit", "tip": "git diff --cached", "alternatives": ["git diff --staged"] }, { "title": "Show both staged and unstaged changes", "tip": "git diff HEAD" }, { "title": "List all branches that are already merged into master", "tip": "git branch --merged master" }, { "title": "Quickly switch to the previous branch", "tip": "git checkout -" }, { "title": "Remove branches that have already been merged with master", "tip": "git branch --merged master | grep -v '^\\*' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d", "alternatives": ["git branch --merged master | grep -v '^\\*\\| master' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d # will not delete master if master is not checked out"] }, { "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 " }, { "title": "Delete remote branch", "tip": "git push origin --delete ", "alternatives": ["git push origin :"] }, { "title": "Undo local changes with the last content in head", "tip": "git checkout -- " }, { "title": "Revert: Undo a commit by creating a new commit", "tip": "git revert " }, { "title": "Reset: Discard commits, advised for private branch", "tip": "git reset " }, { "title": "Reword the previous commit message", "tip": "git commit -v --amend" }, { "title": "See commit history for just the current branch", "tip": "git cherry -v master" }, { "title": "Amend author.", "tip": "git commit --amend --author='Author Name '" }, { "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 " }, { "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 log --no-merges --raw --since='2 weeks ago'", "alternatives": ["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 && git cherry-pick " }, { "title": "Find out branches containing commit-hash", "tip": "git branch -a --contains ", "alternatives": ["git branch --contains "] }, { "title": "Git Aliases", "tip": "git config --global alias. \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 " }, { "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 "] }, { "title": "Grab a single file from a stash", "tip": "git checkout -- ", "alternatives": ["git checkout stash@{0} -- "] }, { "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 " }, { "title": "Create new working tree from HEAD state", "tip": "git worktree add --detach HEAD" }, { "title": "Untrack files without deleting", "tip": "git rm --cached ", "alternatives": ["git rm --cached -r "] }, { "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 "] }, { "title": "Rename a branch", "tip": "git branch -m ", "alternatives": ["git branch -m [] "] }, { "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 references to remote 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=/ --squash git@github.com:/.git master" }, { "title": "Get latest changes in your repo for a linked project using subtree", "tip": "git subtree pull --prefix=/ --squash git@github.com:/.git master" }, { "title": "Export a branch with history to a file.", "tip": "git bundle create " }, { "title": "Import from a bundle", "tip": "git clone repo.bundle -b " }, { "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//head:", "alternatives": ["git pull origin pull//head:"] }, { "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 " }, { "title": "Undo assume-unchanged.", "tip": "git update-index --no-assume-unchanged " }, { "title": "Clean the files from `.gitignore`.", "tip": "git clean -X -f" }, { "title": "Restore deleted file.", "tip": "git checkout ^ -- " }, { "title": "Restore file to a specific commit-hash", "tip": "git checkout -- " }, { "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 " }, { "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 " }, { "title": "squash fixup commits normal commits.", "tip": "git rebase -i --autosquash" }, { "title": "skip staging area during commit.", "tip": "git commit -am " }, { "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" }, { "title": "reuse recorded resolution, record and reuse previous conflicts resolutions.", "tip": "git config --global rerere.enabled 1" }, { "title": "Open all conflicted files in an editor.", "tip": "git diff --name-only | uniq | xargs $EDITOR" }, { "title": "Count unpacked number of objects and their disk consumption.", "tip": "git count-objects --human-readable" }, { "title": "Prune all unreachable objects from the object database.", "tip": "git gc --prune=now --aggressive" }, { "title": "Instantly browse your working repository in gitweb.", "tip": "git instaweb [--local] [--httpd=] [--port=] [--browser=]" }, { "title": "View the GPG signatures in the commit log", "tip": "git log --show-signature" }, { "title": "Remove entry in the global config.", "tip": "git config --global --unset " }, { "title": "Checkout a new branch without any history", "tip": "git checkout --orphan " }, { "title": "Extract file from another branch.", "tip": "git show :" }, { "title": "List only the root and merge commits.", "tip": "git log --first-parent" }, { "title": "Merge previous two commits into one.", "tip": "git rebase --interactive HEAD~2" }, { "title": "List all branch is WIP", "tip": "git checkout master && git branch --no-merged" }, { "title": "Find guilty with binary search", "tip": "git bisect start # Search start \ngit bisect bad # Set point to bad commit \ngit bisect good v2.6.13-rc2 # Set point to good commit|tag \ngit bisect bad # Say current state is bad \ngit bisect good # Say current state is good \ngit bisect reset # Finish search \n" }, { "title": "Bypass pre-commit and commit-msg githooks", "tip": "git commit --no-verify" }, { "title": "List commits and changes to a specific file (even through renaming)", "tip": "git log --follow -p -- " },{ "title": "Clone a single branch", "tip": "git clone -b --single-branch https://github.com/user/repo.git" },{ "title": "Create and switch new branch", "tip": "git checkout -b ", "alternatives": ["git branch && git checkout "] },{ "title": "Ignore file mode changes on commits", "tip": "git config core.fileMode false" },{ "title": "Turn off git colored terminal output", "tip": "git config --global color.ui false" },{ "title": "specific color settings", "tip": "git config --global " }]