Tool cheatsheet

Git 2 Cheatsheet

Everyday Git commands for committing, branching, syncing and undoing mistakes.

Getting started

Check the Git version — Print the installed Git version.
Set your name — Set the name recorded on your commits, for every repository on this machine.
Set your email — Set the email recorded on your commits.
Start a repository — Turn the current folder into a Git repository.
Clone a repository — Download a repository and its full history.
See what has changed — Show modified, staged and untracked files.

Stage all changes — Stage every modified, new and deleted file in the current directory and below.
Stage parts of a file — Choose which hunks of a file to stage.
Commit staged changes — Record the staged changes with a message.
Change the last commit message — Replace the message of the most recent commit.
See unstaged changes — Show what changed since the last stage or commit.
See staged changes — Show what will go into the next commit.
View history compactly — Show one line per commit with the branch graph.
Show a commit — Show the message and changes of the latest commit.

List branches — Show local branches and mark the current one.
Create and switch to a branch — Create a new branch from the current commit and switch to it.
Switch branch — Move to an existing branch.
Rename the current branch — Rename the branch you are on.
Delete a merged branch — Delete a local branch that has been merged. Git refuses if it has unmerged work.
Delete an unmerged branch — Delete a local branch even if its commits are not merged.
Delete a remote branch — Remove a branch from the remote.
Merge a branch — Merge another branch into the one you are on.
Rebase onto another branch — Replay your commits on top of main.

Add a remote — Connect the repository to a remote named origin.
List remotes — Show remote names and their URLs.
Fetch without merging — Download new commits from all remotes and drop references to deleted branches.
Pull with rebase — Fetch and replay your local commits on top, avoiding a merge commit.
Push a new branch — Push the branch and set its upstream so later pushes need no arguments.
Force push safely — Overwrite the remote branch only if nobody has pushed to it since you last fetched.

Discard changes to a file — Restore a file to its last committed state.
Unstage a file — Remove a file from the staging area but keep your edits.
Undo the last commit, keep the changes — Move the branch back one commit and leave the changes staged.
Undo the last commit and discard the changes — Move the branch back one commit and throw away its changes.
Revert a commit safely — Create a new commit that undoes an earlier one. Safe on shared branches.
Find lost commits — List where HEAD has been, including commits no branch points to.
Preview untracked files to delete — Show which untracked files and folders git clean would remove.
Delete untracked files — Remove untracked files and folders.

Stash your work — Set aside uncommitted changes with a label.
List stashes — Show saved stashes, newest first, with the label you gave each.
Restore the latest stash — Apply the newest stash and remove it from the list.
Copy a commit to this branch — Apply the changes of one commit onto the current branch.
Create an annotated tag — Tag the current commit, for example for a release.
See who changed each line — Show the commit and author for every line of a file.
Find commits that changed a string — List commits whose changes add or remove the given text.
Find the commit that broke something — Start a binary search through history. Mark commits with git bisect good and git bisect bad.

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