Git Commands

Clone a Repo

git Clone <URL> (gets master)

Status of the current branch

git Status

• Tells you the current branch name and files modified.

Create new branch

git Checkout -b <BranchName>

• This will create a new branch and switches to the new branch

Switch to an existing branch

git checkout <BranchName>

Fetching a new branch created by someone else

git fetch

• This will download all the meta data information about the branches existed at the remote (Git Hub)

git checkout <new branch name created by someone else>

• You will be switched to the branch.

Add (un-tracked)changes to the staging area

git add *

• This will add the un-tracked files to the staging area (files you can commit)

Commit your changes to local repository

git commit -m "message"

Create a branch in GitHub you just created locally

git push -u origin demo-branch

• This creates a demo-branch in GitHub

Push code to GitHub remote branch

git push origin demo-branch

• This assumes 'demo-branch' already exists in GitHub and pushes your changes to that branch.

Merge code from a branch

git pull origin master

• Gets latest from master and merges into the branch whatever you are currently in
• This command is more like Get latest in TFS before you check-in your code(before you push your code to GitHub)

Undo modified file changes (which are not added to staging area)

1. git checkout <filename>

2. git status

   • should remove the file we 'undo' in the above step 1

undo all files

git checkout .

• This will undo all files you modified and which are not added to staging area.

List of local branches

git branch -l

List of remote repo's that your local git aware of

git branch -r

Delete a local branch

git branch -d <branch name>