Git Tips

Cheatsheet

See state of commits of your local branch vs repository

git status

You are working on a new feature - newfeat

1) create a new branch, newfeat

git checkout -b newfeat master

2) make changes, etc in your branch

3) push feature branch into repository

git push -u origin newfeat

4) merge back into master

git checkout master
git merge --no-ff newfeat
git branch -d newfeat
git push origin master

If master changes and you want to incorporate master changes into your branch:

git rebase master

or

git merge master

Delete branch local:

git branch -d old_branch

remote:

git push origin :old_branch

Undo last commit,

1) reset files to before you committed

git reset --hard HEAD~1

2) just undo the "commit" action but leave everything else as is

git reset --hard HEAD~1

To see the list of remote branches:

git branch -a

or

git branch -r

To update the list of remote branches:

git remote update origin --prune

or

git remote prune origin

To see diff between the current and the last version

git diff HEAD^ HEAD

To see the list of contributors and the number of commits made by each pereson

git shortlog -s -n

To clear the working directory, the following command will remove untracked files, including directories (-d). Replace the -f argument with -n to perform a dry-run or -i for interactive mode and it will tell you what will be removed. Add (-x) to remove files ignored by git.

git clean -d -f

To disable vi dialog during merge, add "export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no" to .bashrc in home directory. In older versions:

git config --global core.mergeoptions --no-edit

To speed up git's autocomplete on Windows https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Diagnosing-why-Git-is-so-slow

git config --global core.fscache true

Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository

git gc

Store credentials for 24 hours when using https

git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=86400'