Git cheatsheet

Published 6 months ago: July 13, 2020

Updated: October 26, 2020

Git cheatsheet

This cheatsheet is a small collection of handy snippets for quick reference in tricky situations. Feel free to suggest edits, propose additions, complain about something, disagree with content or such and the like. Every feedback is a welcome one.

Commands

Initializes/creates a new repository

git init

Clone a repository into current working directory

git clone

View changes since last commit

git status

View untracked files, expanding subdirectories

git status -u

Add file to commit

git add <filename>

Skip editor, directly adding commit message

git commit –m "message describing commit"

Commit all edits

git commit -a

send master branch to remote repository

git push origin master

Update local repository with master branch

git pull