Daily Git Aasim Naseem, January 9, 2012March 20, 2024 Hi everyone;So long its been when I last posted anything on my blog; The reason was again the same, some tight schedules and some other home activities; But Now I’m back; Say welcome please; (:Today’s post is simple; Now a days me and my team is using Git for our code management; So here are some git commands for daily usage; I’m not going to describing their usage in details; This post is for busy developer who just want to know the exact syntax of a command for a particular requirement.So here we go …updated on 10 Jan, 2k12: git-blame Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file; git branch –contains Only list branches which contain the specified commit;updated on 21 Dec, 2k12: Every command has its own set of options, which are used with hyphen sign; Like commit command has one option -m with is used to provide a commit message; In this post I’m not covering the options’ details in depth; This article is only for a quick reference;Fetching code from a repository; git clone git@IP-ADDRESS–OR–URL–OF–SERVER:example.git This command will download all code from a particular git repository to your system; This is equivalence to SVN/CVS checkout;git pull origin <branch name> Will fetch updated code from remote repository to your system; Its just like update in SVN/CVS;Play with branchesgit branch Will display all branches of your current repositorygit branch dev Will create a new branch named dev, to current repository; Note that this branch is only to your local repository;git checkout dev You will be switched to dev branch locally;git checkout -f B2 Forcefully switch to B2, reverting all your changes of current working branch; To commit your codegit status Will show all your changes for current working branch;git add <file/directory name> Will add a file or directory in commit queue of git; This commit is only to your local repository; You can add one or more files/directories with this command;Tip: If there are more then on file in a directory, then just use the directory name in add command and git add will all modified files to commit queue itself;git add –u will removed deleted files from git status message; Sometimes many deleted files are shown in git status log, so this command will remove those deleted files form git’s logs;git commit -m “message” Will commit the previously added files to current local repository;git push origin dev will send your changes from local repository to remove git repository; This action is same as commit in svn; Now your code is actually submitting to remote server;To merger code from B1 branch to B2 branchAssuming that you have pushed all your local changes to remote B1 branch ;git checkout B2 Will switch you from previous branch to B2 branch;git merge B1 Will merge the code in B2, from B1; (The code of B1 will be merged in B2 and B1 will remain intact) Again note that this change will occur only to your local repository;git push origin B2 Will push your code to remove B2 branch, from your local repository;To Revert your changes in local repositorygit checkout path/to/file/to/revert This will revert all the changes of a single file; It checkouts the current index for the current directory, throwing away all changes in files from the current directory downwards.git reset –hard HEAD Will revert all of your changes in current working branch; The command is save as svn revert -R . If you know any command of git for daily use, just don’t’ hesitate to share with us; Happy Development; (: Aasim NaseemI’m an engineer by profession, a blogger and a photojournalist by hobby. Seasonal writer at LAFZ Media UK. I write on different topics and things around us. Contact me at +971.56.126.8842 or Aasim.Naseem@outlook.com Code Repositories Tips & Tutorials commit code in gitgitgit addgit branchgit checkoutgit clonegit commitgit mergegit pullgit pushgit resethow to revert single file git
is there any GUI based client for git ? like svn has tortoise svn ? or only way to make commands using cmd ?Reply
Thanks Arslan for find time to read the post and comment; Yes there are gui client available for Git; You can find TortoiseGit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseGit for windows and GitHub tool for mac at http://mac.github.com;Reply
After learning the commands in your list, I would recommend next making friends with the following two:git branch –contains git blameThey are very useful for finding your way in a repository.Reply
Thanks; Loving this; I missed them I confess, but you made the post complete; Thanks again for your time dear;Reply