Git cheatsheet

Git commands that have proven to be very useful for developers

Configurations

Set the global username

git config --global user.name "John Doe"

Set the global user email

git config --global user.mail "[email protected]"

Set the local username

git config --local user.name "John Doe"

Set the local user email

git config --local user.mail "[email protected]"

To unset a given configuration

git config --global --unset-all user.name

To list global configurations

git config --global --list

To replace configurations

git config --global --replace-all user.name "New User Name"

To ignore file mode changes (i.e file permissions)

git config core.fileMode false

To ignore new line character differences between systems (windows-linux)

git config --global core.autocrlf true

To configure a proxy server

git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:[email protected]:proxy_port

To store credentials

git config --global credential.helper store

Working with remotes

List all the configured remote repositories

git remote -v

Remove a remote server

git remote rm <remote>

Working with Branches

To push all your branches

git push <remote> --all

List all the branches

git branch

List all the branches (local and remote branches)

git branch --all

Make a switch to a specified branch

git checkout <branch>

Deleting specified branch

git branch -d <branch>

Tracking a remote branch

git branch -u <remote>/<branch>

To remove all the remote tracking branches that no longer exists

git remote prune <remote>

To remove an specific remote tracking branch

git branch -d -r <remote>/<branch>

To remove a remote branch

git push <remote> --delete <branch>

git push <remote> :<branch>

Tagging

Pushing tags to the remote

git push <remote> --tags

Pushing commits and also tags to the remote

git push --follow-tags

Removing a local tag

git tag -d <tag-name>

Removing a remote tag

git push --delete <remote> tagName

Reverting to previous states

Reverting Files

Showing file snapshot at specific commit

git show <commit-sha>:relative/path/to/file/inside/repo

Saving file snapshot at specific commit

git show <commit-sha>:relative/path/to/file/inside/repo > /new/path/to/file/content/at/selected/commit

Graph history visualization

Showing last commit

git log -1 

Showing the current local history (-5 last five commits)

git log --decorate --graph -5

Showing commits by a specific user

git show git log --author=bob | grep ^commit | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}'