git

Git Branches

On your local machine you can delete the untracked remotes using:

git remote purge origin

Note

That does not delete the branches you have checked out.

  1. To Delete Merged Branches on GitLab, see GitLab Branches

  2. We have a script to delete untracked-branches

Configuration

Set user name and password:

git config --global user.name "Patrick Kimber"
git config --global user.email code@pkimber.net
git config -l

Enable colours:

git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto

Set the default editor (to vim):

git config --global core.editor vim

View configuration:

git config -l

Basic usage

Initialise

git init
git add .
git commit

Branch

This article is a nice little intro to branching: Git Tutorial : Starting with git using just 10 commands.

Clone

git clone url
git pull

diff

To get a diff of the stuff in the index:

git diff --cached

To get a diff of the stuff not yet staged (in the index):

git diff

Ignore

Edit the .gitignore file in the project folder e.g:

# Can ignore specific files
.DS_Store

# Use wildcards as well
*~
*.swp

# Can also ignore all directories and files in a directory.
tmp/**/*

Log

git log
# list file names
git log --name-status

GUI:

gitk

Modify

Note

You have to stage a file before you can commit it. You can do this automatically by using the -a parameter on the commit command.

git commit -a -m "Rename activation code."

…or… by adding the file to the staging error before committing:

git add my-file.py
git commit -m "Update colours."

If you enter an incorrect commit message, you can amend the message using:

git commit --amend

Reset (revert)

Note: ‘git revert’ is not equivalent to ‘svn revert’:

git checkout filename

To actually remove a commit (from Delete commits from a branch in Git):

Warning

git reset --hard WILL DELETE YOUR WORKING DIRECTORY CHANGES. Be sure to stash any local changes you want to keep before running this command.

Assuming you are sitting on that commit, then this command will wack it:

git reset --hard HEAD~1

The HEAD~1 means the commit before head.

Or, you could look at the output of git log, find the commit id of the commit you want to back up to, and then do this:

git reset --hard <sha1-commit-id>

If you already pushed it, you will need to do a force push to get rid of it:

git push origin HEAD --force

Stash

git stash
git stash list
git stash apply

Status

git status
git status -s

Remote repository configuration

To view the URL of a remote repository:

git remote -v

To change the URI:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:pkimber/story.git

Server

Note

I don’t think we need the .git on the end of the ssh path.

To create an empty repository on a remote server:

cd ~/repo/temp/
mkdir pillar.git
cd pillar.git
git init --bare

To push to this repository:

git remote set-url origin ssh://patrick@46.10.8.55:/home/patrick/repo/temp/pillar.git
git push origin master

Working with a branch

List and Checkout a branch

List:

git branch -a

To checkout a remote branch e.g:

git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/747-board

To checkout 747-board:

git checkout -b 747-board origin/747-board

Cherry Pick from a branch to another branch

How to merge a specific commit in git:

git cherry-pick aeca961

Warning

Checkout the consequence of cherry-picking

Create a branch

git checkout -b ticket-0488

This is shorthand for:

git branch ticket-0488
git checkout ticket-0488

Merge a branch into master

git checkout master
git merge ticket-0488

Switch branch

git checkout master
git checkout ticket-0488

A more advanced version (which I don’t understand):

git checkout remotes/origin/0.7.X

Delete a branch

To delete the hotfix branch:

git branch -d hotfix

Log

To see the branch on the log:

git log --decorate

Rename a branch

From How do I rename a local Git branch?:

git branch -m <oldname> <newname>

If you want to rename the current branch, you can simply do:

git branch -m <newname>

You can use this command to rename master e.g:

git branch -m master 1010-angular
git checkout live-site
git branch -m live-site master

Tags

We can switch to tags in the same was as we switch branches (see above).