Git Cheat Sheet
This page will contain basic and/or useful git commands.
General
Status
This command gives you all of the basic information you need to know.
git status
Clone over https
General way to clone into a folder.
git clone https://github.com/<username>/<repo>.git <repo_folder>
Clone over ssh
Useful if you want to use keys with github so you don’t have to type in your username/password everytime you push. Again,
git clone ssh@github.com:<username>/<repo>.git <repo_folder>
Pulling/Fetching
Pulling grabs commits from github and changes the necessary files on you local system. Fetching just grabs the proposed changes so you can review them.
git pull
git fetch
Committing
The process for committing is as follows: add the file changes to a commit then commit the file changes with a message.
git add <file1> <file2> <etc>
git commit -m 'commit message goes here'
Pushing
To put your commits on github, you need to push them to the ‘cloud’. Use either of the commands below. The second one is more specific/safe and should especially be used if you created a new local branch that you want to push up.
git push
git push origin <branch_name>
Branching
List available local branches
git branch
List all brances, local and remote.
git branch -a
Create a new local branch. The second one bases
git checkout -b <branch_name>
git checkout -b <new_branch> <old_branch>
Change to <branch>.
git checkout <branch>
Remote Info
Get info about the upstream remote
git remote show origin
Submodules
Information about submodules is stored in .gitmodules in the root of your git repo.
Init submodules from clone
git clone --recursive <repo_url>
or
git clone <repo_url>
git submodule init
git submodule update