Git

Activities

Clone a remote repository.
- Select a local folder to copy the repository into, or create a new folder if you prefer. The repository will be copied as a subdirectory of the selected folder.
- At a command or terminal prompt, navigate to the selected folder.
- Clone the repository using the command:
  /git clone/ URL_TO_REPO. See also: git pull and git fetch

Initialize a folder for Git.
- Select a local folder to add to Git, or create a new folder if you are starting a new project.
- At a command or terminal prompt, navigate to the selected folder.
- Initialize the folder using the command:
  git init

Add local changes.

Stage files.
- Add files to the folder or modify existing files.
- Add new and modified files to the git staging area using the command:
  git add .^[1] or git add some_modified_file.txt or git add -A
Commit changes.
- Commit changes into the local repository using the command:
  git commit -m "<some message>"
Connect to a remote repository.
- Connect to a remote repository using the command:
  git remote add <name> <url>^[2]
Push changes to a remote repository.
- Push changes from your local repository to a remote repository using the command:
  git push^[3] or git push origin master or git push -h origin master

Pull/get changes from a remote repository to have latest version of the code
- Pull/get changes from a remote repository to your local repository using the command:

/git pull/ or git pull <name> <branch>

git pull -v (for more verbose output)

/git fetch/

gfind $1 -name ".git" | gsed -r 's|/[^/]+$||' | parallel "echo {}; git -C {} pull" (git pull all your repos in parallel, MacOS version)

ls | parallel git -C {} pull (assuming all sub-dirs are git repositories)^[4]

ls | parallel git -C {} fetch

-C <PATH> run as if git was started in <path> instead of the current working directory.

git remote -v or git remote show origin or git config --get remote.origin.url^[5]

git log --oneline
git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar on %cd: %s"
Show modifications to a file:git log --follow -p FILE_TO_SHOW^[6] or git blame FILE_TO_SHOW
git shortlog
List developers: git shortlogs -sne^[7]

Show all tags in git log:^[8] git log --no-walk --tags --pretty="%h %d %s" --decorate=full
git tag (show releases)
List tags with dates: git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --pretty="format:%ci %d"^[9]. Just can also add taglog = log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --pretty='format:%ci %d' (note the single-, NOT double-quotes) in the [alias] section of your /.gitconfig/ file.