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Git

global settings
get all global settings
the settings will be read from <home directory>/.gitconfig

> git config --global --list

modify the global settings

> git config --global user.name <user name>


> git config --global user.email <email>
> git config --global core.editor <vim>

basic operations
initialize the git repository

> git init

creates a new directory named .git


check the status of repository

> git status


> git status -s

statuses
??
the file is untracked file
the file is not yet tracked
untracked: the file is not present (there is no version of it created yet) in the .git
directory
A
A -> Add to the repository
this will appear only for those file which were not yet tracked (new files)
the file is added to the commit area
once the changes are committed, the new version of this file will get created
[ M]
M -> modified
this status will appear only for those files which have been already tracked
the file is changes since the last commit
the file is not yet added to the commit area
[M ]
M -> modified
this status will appear only for those files which have been already tracked
the file is added to the commit area and ready to create a new version
add a file to commit (logical) area

# add only selected file


> git add <file names>

# add all the files in the current directory


> git add .

create a version of selected files

> git commit -m <commit message>

get the logs from the current repository

> git log

get the differences from the last commit

# difference between the last committed version for a selected file


> git diff <file name>

# show the differences for every file since the last committed version
> git diff

stash commands
these commands are used to move to stash area (logical area)
move the changes to stash area

> git stash

list the versions pushed to the stash area


> git stash list

get the specific version from stash keeping the changes in the stash area

> git stash apply <version number>

get the last version by keeping the changes in the stash area

> git stash apply

get the specific version from stash removing the changes in the stash area

> git stash pop <version number>

get the last version by removing the changes in the stash area
the pop works with last in first out strategy

> git stash pop

clear all the changes pushed to the stash area

> git stash clear

resetting the changes


discard the changes and get the last version of the file

# it will bring the last version of index.html from repository


> git checkout index.html

soft reset: used to remove the changes from staging area

> git reset

hard reset: get the latest versions of every file and replace with the current versions
used to discard the changes after moving to the staging area
git reset --hard = git reset + git checkout

> git reset --hard

git branching
get the list of branches

# the branch having star is the current branch


> git branch

get the current branch

> git status

create a new branch

> git branch <branch name>

switch to another branch

> git checkout <branch name>

create and switch to the new branch with a single command

> git checkout -b <branch name>

delete a branch

> git branch -d <branch name>

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