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[{
"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": "Search change by content",
"tip": "git log -S'<a term in the source>'"
}, {
"title": "Show changes over time for specific file",
"tip": "git log -p <file_name>"
}, {
"title": "Remove sensitive data from history, after a push",
"tip": "git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch <path-to-your-file>' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all && git push origin --force --all"
}, {
"title": "Sync with remote, overwrite local changes",
"tip": "git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin/master && git clean -f -d"
}, {
"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": "Reset: preserve uncommitted local changes",
"tip": "git reset --keep <commit>"
}, {
"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",
"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 -",
"alternatives": ["git checkout @{-1}"]
}, {
"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 <local_branchname>"
}, {
"title": "Delete remote branch",
"tip": "git push origin --delete <remote_branchname>",
"alternatives": ["git push origin :<remote_branchname>", "git branch -dr <remote/branch>"]
}, {
"title": "Create local tag",
"tip": "git tag <tag-name>"
}, {
"title": "Delete local tag",
"tip": "git tag -d <tag-name>"
}, {
"title": "Delete remote tag",
"tip": "git push origin :refs/tags/<tag-name>"
}, {
"title": "Undo local changes with the content in index(staging)",
"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": "See commit history for just the current branch",
"tip": "git cherry -v master"
}, {
"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 -L 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 <branch-name> && git 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 push"]
}, {
"title": "Saving current state of unstaged changes to tracked files",
"tip": "git stash -k",
"alternatives": ["git stash --keep-index", "git stash push --keep-index"]
}, {
"title": "Saving current state including untracked files",
"tip": "git stash -u",
"alternatives": ["git stash push -u", "git stash push --include-untracked"]
}, {
"title": "Saving current state with message",
"tip": "git stash push -m <message>",
"alternatives": ["git stash push --message <message>"]
}, {
"title": "Saving current state of all files (ignored, untracked, and tracked)",
"tip": "git stash -a",
"alternatives": ["git stash --all", "git stash push --all"]
}, {
"title": "Show list of all saved stashes",
"tip": "git stash list"
}, {
"title": "Show the contents of any stash in patch form",
"tip": "git stash show -p <stash@{n}>"
}, {
"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"
}, {
"title": "Update all the submodules",
"tip": "git submodule foreach git pull",
"alternatives": ["git submodule update --init --recursive", "git submodule update --remote"]
}, {
"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 rebase master feature && git checkout master && git merge -"
}, {
"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 remove branches that have been deleted in the remote.",
"tip": "git fetch -p",
"alternatives": ["git remote prune origin"]
}, {
"title": "Delete local branches that has been squash and merged in the remote.",
"tip": "git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D"
}, {
"title": "Retrieve the commit hash of the initial revision.",
"tip": " git rev-list --reverse HEAD | head -1",
"alternatives": ["git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD", "git log --pretty=oneline | tail -1 | cut -c 1-40", "git log --pretty=oneline --reverse | head -1 | cut -c 1-40"]
}, {
"title": "Visualize the version tree.",
"tip": "git log --pretty=oneline --graph --decorate --all",
"alternatives": ["gitk --all", "git log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(auto) %h | %s | %an | %ar%d'"]
}, {
"title": "Visualize the tree including commits that are only referenced from reflogs",
"tip": "git log --graph --decorate --oneline $(git rev-list --walk-reflogs --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 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": "Show changes using common diff tools.",
"tip": "git difftool [-t <tool>] <commit1> <commit2> <path>"
}, {
"title": "Dont 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 pull.rebase true",
"alternatives": ["#git < 1.7.9\ngit 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": "Add custom editors.",
"tip": "git config --global core.editor '$EDITOR'"
}, {
"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 --only <file_path>"
}, {
"title": "Interactive staging.",
"tip": "git add -i"
}, {
"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": "List n last commits",
"tip": "git log -<n>",
"alternatives": ["git log -n <n>"]
}, {
"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=<httpd>] [--port=<port>] [--browser=<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 <entry-name>"
}, {
"title": "Checkout a new branch without any history",
"tip": "git checkout --orphan <branch_name>"
}, {
"title": "Extract file from another branch.",
"tip": "git show <branch_name>:<file_name>"
}, {
"title": "List only the root and merge commits.",
"tip": "git log --first-parent"
}, {
"title": "Change previous two commits with an interactive rebase.",
"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 -- <file_path>"
}, {
"title": "Clone a single branch",
"tip": "git clone -b <branch-name> --single-branch https://github.com/user/repo.git"
}, {
"title": "Create and switch new branch",
"tip": "git checkout -b <branch-name>",
"alternatives": ["git branch <branch-name> && git checkout <branch-name>", "git switch -c <branch-name>"]
}, {
"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 <specific command e.g branch, diff> <true, false or always>"
}, {
"title": "Show all local branches ordered by recent commits",
"tip": "git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/"
}, {
"title": "Find lines matching the pattern (regex or string) in tracked files",
"tip": "git grep --heading --line-number 'foo bar'"
}, {
"title": "Clone a shallow copy of a repository",
"tip": "git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git --depth 1"
}, {
"title": "Search Commit log across all branches for given text",
"tip": "git log --all --grep='<given-text>'"
}, {
"title": "Get first commit in a branch (from master)",
"tip": "git log --oneline master..<branch-name> | tail -1",
"alternatives": ["git log --reverse master..<branch-name> | head -6"]
}, {
"title": "Unstaging Staged file",
"tip": "git reset HEAD <file-name>"
}, {
"title": "Force push to Remote Repository",
"tip": "git push -f <remote-name> <branch-name>"
}, {
"title": "Adding Remote name",
"tip": "git remote add <remote-nickname> <remote-url>"
}, {
"title": "List all currently configured remotes",
"tip": "git remote -v"
}, {
"title": "Show the author, time and last revision made to each line of a given file",
"tip": "git blame <file-name>"
}, {
"title": "Group commits by authors and title",
"tip": "git shortlog"
}, {
"title": "Forced push but still ensure you don't overwrite other's work",
"tip": "git push --force-with-lease <remote-name> <branch-name>"
}, {
"title": "Show how many lines does an author contribute",
"tip": "git log --author='_Your_Name_Here_' --pretty=tformat: --numstat | gawk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf \"added lines: %s removed lines: %s total lines: %s\n\", add, subs, loc }' -",
"alternatives": ["git log --author='_Your_Name_Here_' --pretty=tformat: --numstat | awk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf \"added lines: %s, removed lines: %s, total lines: %s\n\", add, subs, loc }' - # on Mac OSX"]
}, {
"title": "Revert: Reverting an entire merge",
"tip": "git revert -m 1 <commit-ish>"
}, {
"title": "Number of commits in a branch",
"tip": "git rev-list --count <branch-name>"
}, {
"title": "Alias: git undo",
"tip": "git config --global alias.undo '!f() { git reset --hard $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)@{${1-1}}; }; f'"
}, {
"title": "Add object notes",
"tip": "git notes add -m 'Note on the previous commit....'"
}, {
"title": "Show all the git-notes",
"tip": "git log --show-notes='*'"
}, {
"title": "Apply commit from another repository",
"tip": "git --git-dir=<source-dir>/.git format-patch -k -1 --stdout <SHA1> | git am -3 -k"
}, {
"title": "Specific fetch reference",
"tip": "git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/mymaster"
}, {
"title": "Find common ancestor of two branches",
"tip": "git merge-base <branch-name> <other-branch-name>"
}, {
"title": "List unpushed git commits",
"tip": "git log --branches --not --remotes",
"alternatives": ["git log @{u}..", "git cherry -v"]
}, {
"title": "Add everything, but whitespace changes",
"tip": "git diff --ignore-all-space | git apply --cached"
}, {
"title": "Edit [local/global] git config",
"tip": "git config [--global] --edit"
}, {
"title": "blame on certain range",
"tip": "git blame -L <start>,<end>"
}, {
"title": "Show a Git logical variable.",
"tip": "git var -l | <variable>"
}, {
"title": "Preformatted patch file.",
"tip": "git format-patch -M upstream..topic"
}, {
"title": "Get the repo name.",
"tip": "git rev-parse --show-toplevel"
}, {
"title": "logs between date range",
"tip": "git log --since='FEB 1 2017' --until='FEB 14 2017'"
}, {
"title": "Exclude author from logs",
"tip": "git log --perl-regexp --author='^((?!excluded-author-regex).*)$'"
}, {
"title": "Generates a summary of pending changes",
"tip": "git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linus"
}, {
"title": "List references in a remote repository",
"tip": "git ls-remote git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git"
}, {
"title": "Backup untracked files.",
"tip": "git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard | xargs zip untracked.zip"
}, {
"title": "List all git aliases",
"tip": "git config -l | grep alias | sed 's/^alias\\.//g'",
"alternatives": ["git config -l | grep alias | cut -d '.' -f 2"]
}, {
"title": "Show git status short",
"tip": "git status --short --branch"
},
{
"title": "Checkout a commit prior to a day ago",
"tip": "git checkout master@{yesterday}"
}, {
"title": "Push the current branch to the same name on the remote repository",
"tip": "git push origin HEAD"
}, {
"title": "Push a new local branch to remote repository and track",
"tip": "git push -u origin <branch_name>"
}, {
"title": "Change a branch base",
"tip": "git rebase --onto <new_base> <old_base>"
}, {
"title": "Use SSH instead of HTTPs for remotes",
"tip": "git config --global url.'git@github.com:'.insteadOf 'https://github.com/'"
}, {
"title": "Update a submodule to the latest commit",
"tip": "cd <path-to-submodule>\ngit pull origin <branch>\ncd <root-of-your-main-project>\ngit add <path-to-submodule>\ngit commit -m \"submodule updated\""
}, {
"title": "Prevent auto replacing LF with CRLF",
"tip": "git config --global core.autocrlf false"
}
]