Git Cheat Sheet

Basic Snapshotting

Command	Description
git add	Add file contents to the index. Use it after making any changes to the working tree, and before running the commit command.
git status	Show the working tree status.
git diff	Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc.
git commit	Record changes to the repository.

Sharing and Updating Projects

Command	Description
git pull	git pull runs git fetchwith the given parameters andthen depending on configuration options or command line flags, will call either git rebase or git merge to reconcile diverging branches.

Inspection and Comparison

Command	Description
git log README.md	Shows the commit logs.

Debugging

Command	Description
git blame README.md	Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file. Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which last modified the line.

Change username and e-mail

 git config --local user.name "Viacheslav Kolupaev"
 git config --local user.email my@email.com

Working with a branch

git checkout main  # Switch to the main branch.
git pull  # Fetch from and integrate with origin repository.
git checkout -b infra/pipeline-14  # Create a branch.
git branch -m infra/pipeline-14 infra/pipeline-15  # Rename a branch.

git status  # Which branch am I currently working on?

git commit -a -m 'Update mypy config' --dry-run  # Commit all changed files. Show what would be committed.
git commit -a -m 'Update mypy config'  # Commit.

git commit -i .gitignore -m 'Update .gitignore' --dry-run  # Commit specified file only. Show what would be committed.
git commit -i .gitignore -m 'Update .gitignore'  # Commit.

git push --set-upstream origin infra/pipeline-14  # For the first time.
git push  # In subsequent times.

Get the short Git version hash

git rev-parse --short HEAD  # cd7ec06

# or

git log -1 --pretty=format:%h  # cd7ec06