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Basic Git Commands - Atlassian Documentation

This document lists and briefly describes basic Git commands for telling Git your identity, initializing and cloning repositories, adding, committing, and pushing files, branching, merging, tagging, and undoing changes. It provides the command syntax for common tasks like committing changes, pushing to a remote repository, switching branches, resolving conflicts, and more.

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Basic Git Commands - Atlassian Documentation

This document lists and briefly describes basic Git commands for telling Git your identity, initializing and cloning repositories, adding, committing, and pushing files, branching, merging, tagging, and undoing changes. It provides the command syntax for common tasks like committing changes, pushing to a remote repository, switching branches, resolving conflicts, and more.

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Basic Git commands


Here is a list of some basic Git commands to get you going with Git.

For more detail, check out the Atlassian Git Tutorials for a visual introduction to Git commands and
workflows, including examples.

Git task Notes Git commands

Tell Git Configure the author git config --global user.name "Sam Smith"
who you name and email
git config--globaluser.email
are address to be used
[email protected]
with your commits.

Note that Git strips


some characters (for
example trailing
periods) from
user.name.

Create a git init


new local
repository

Check out Create a working git clone /path/to/repository


a copy of a local
repository repository:

For a remote server, git clone username@host:/path/to/repository


use:

Add files Add one or more git add <filename>


files to staging
(index): git add *

Commit Commit changes to git commit -m "Commit message"


head (but not yet to

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the remote
repository):

Commit any files git commit -a


you've added with
git add, and also
commit any files
you've changed
since then:

Push Send changes to the git push origin master


master branch of
your remote
repository:

Status List the files you've git status


changed and those
you still need to add
or commit:

Connect to If you haven't git remote add origin <server>


a remote connected your local
repository repository to a
remote server, add
the server to be able
to push to it:

List all currently git remote -v


configured remote
repositories:

Branches Create a new branch git checkout -b <branchname>


and switch to it:

Switch from one git checkout <branchname>


branch to another:

List all the branches git branch


in your repo, and
also tell you what
branch you're
currently in:

Delete the feature git branch -d <branchname>


branch:

Push the branch to git push origin <branchname>


your remote
repository, so others
can use it:

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Push all branches to git push --all origin


your remote
repository:

Delete a branch on git push origin :<branchname>


your remote
repository:

Update Fetch and merge git pull


from the changes on the
remote remote server to
repository your working
directory:

To merge a different git merge <branchname>


branch into your
active branch:

View all the merge git diff


conflicts:
git diff --base <filename>
View the conflicts
git diff <sourcebranch> <targetbranch>
against the base file:

Preview changes,
before merging:

After you have git add <filename>


manually resolved
any conflicts, you
mark the changed
file:

Tags You can use tagging git tag 1.0.0 <commitID>


to mark a significant
changeset, such as
a release:

CommitId is the git log


leading characters of
the changeset ID, up
to 10, but must be
unique. Get the ID
using:

Push all tags to git push --tags origin


remote repository:

Undo local If you mess up, you git checkout -- <filename>


changes can replace the
changes in your

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working tree with the


last content in head:

Changes already
added to the index,
as well as new files,
will be kept.

Instead, to drop all git fetch origin


your local changes
and commits, fetch git reset --hard origin/master
the latest history
from the server and
point your local
master branch at it,
do this:

Search Search the working git grep "foo()"


directory for foo():


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