Git Cheatsheet¶
Add a file to your next commit¶
git add AMAAI
Add all file to your next commit¶
git add .
Descript your commit content¶
git commit -m 'description of this committed file'
List out and show which branch you are locating at¶
git branch
Create a new branch¶
git checkout -b [branch]
Switch to another branch¶
git checkout [branch]
Update local branch commits to GitHub¶
git push origin [branch_name]
Show modified files in working directory¶
git status
Show the different of what is changed but not committed¶
git diff [file]
Show the commit history for currently active branch¶
git log
Ignore folder or file when you process commit¶
Use nano which is a text editor to open .gitignore. All the folder and file inside .gitignore will be ignored and won’t be committed to GitHub.
nano .gitignore
Note
Any file begin with ‘.’ represent hidden file which is only shown in ‘ls -a’
Retrieve an repository from a hosted location via URL¶
git clone [url]
How to get URL for a repository?¶
Step 1: go to the repository page that you wanna clone.
Download repository to your own GitHub account by clicking ‘fork’ button.
Step 2: go to your repository page and click ‘Code’ button.
For more Git commands, you can check via GitHub Education