Git comments for command line

Git Version control system

Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. It is designed for coordinating work among programmers

SCM Git is Software Configuration Management
SVN is a Version Control System (VCS) tool
Git is a Revision control system, a tool to manage your source code history.
GitHub is a hosting service for Git repositories.


GUI Tools for Git:
Source Tree - https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
Android Studio has VCS (For Android developer)
Tortoise Git - https://tortoisegit.org/

Check Git version
git --version

Add login credentials
git config --global user.name "Your username"
git config --global user.email "your git email:
git config --global user.password "your git password"

Check your git information
git config --global --list

Initialize a local directory
git init

Clone repository
git clone "Repository URL"

Clone from a specific branch
git clone -b <branch_name> <remote_url>

Switch the branch
git checkout -b "branch name"

Download the latest changes
git pull <remote name> <branch name>

View remote repository
git remote -v

Add a remote repository
git remote add <remote name> <repository url>

Create a branch
git checkout -b <branch name>

Existing branch
git checkout <branch name>

View the changes
git status

View the difference
git diff

Add the file/folder in local repository
git add file/folder-name

Add all files/folders in local repository
git add .

Commit the local changes
git commit -m "Comments"

Send the changes to the cloud (GitHub, bitbucket, gitlab)
git push remote-name branch-name

Delete all the changes
git checkout .

Undo delete
git reset .

Merge a branch with the master branch
git checkout branch-name
git merge master