The `git` command

the stupid content tracker 49 examples from the lessons of the IVski Linux Playground — try them in the terminal next to them.

Subcommands in the examples

git add: Add file contents to the index
git commit: Record changes to the repository
git log: Show commit logs
git branch: List, create, or delete branches
git diff: Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
git push: Update remote refs along with associated objects
git status: Show the working tree status
git switch: Switch branches
git clone: Clone a repository into a new directory
git config: Get and set repository or global options
git pull: Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch
git remote: Manage set of tracked repositories
git blame
git checkout: Switch branches or restore working tree files

git --version

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git init

git status

git add file.txt

Stage one file

git add file1.txt file2.txt

git add .

Stage everything in current directory

git add -A

Stage everything in the whole repo

git commit -m "Add initial project files"

git commit -am "Fix typo in README"

git restore --staged file.txt

Unstage, keep changes

git commit -m "stuff"

git commit -m "Fix login redirect bug for expired sessions"

git log

git log --oneline

Compact, one line per commit

git log --oneline --graph

ASCII graph of branches

git log -n 5

Last 5 commits

git log --author="Ana"

Filter by author

git diff

Unstaged changes vs last commit

git diff --staged

Staged changes vs last commit

git diff HEAD~1 HEAD

Compare two commits

git diff file.txt

Changes in one file

git show a1b2c3d

git blame file.txt

git branch feature-login

Create

git switch feature-login

Switch (modern)

git checkout feature-login

Switch (classic)

git switch -c feature-login

Create + switch in one step

git branch

Local branches

git branch -a

All, including remote

git switch main

git merge feature-login

git commit

git branch -d feature-login

Safe delete (merged only)

git branch -D feature-login

Force delete

git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git

git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git my-folder

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git

git remote -v

List configured remotes

git push origin main

git push -u origin main

-u remembers this pairing for future plain `git push`

git pull origin main

fetch + merge in one step

git fetch origin

Just download, don't merge yet

git pull

Get latest changes

git commit -m "Add feature X"

git push

git commit -m "Ship feature: user dashboard"

git log --oneline -n 3