Linus Torvalds named git in man page as "the stupid content tracker".
"Git was created by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, in 2005. Torvalds was dissatisfied with the existing version control systems available at the time, and he wanted a system that could handle the scale and distributed nature of Linux development. Git is a distributed version control system, which means that each user has a complete copy of the repository. This makes it very efficient for collaborating on projects, as users can work on their own copies and then easily merge their changes back into the main repository." — bard.google.com
$ man giteveryday
Init git repository
git init
Add all files and folders of current path to repository
git add .
Commit to repository
git commit -m 'First commit'
What happened?
git log git log --oneline
List all branches
git branch -a
Create and checkout a new branch with one command
git checkout -b branch_name
Clone repository
git clone
Pull repository
git pull
Reset all local changes permanently
git reset --hard
Accidently delete files
Run git checkout -- to list deleted files
PS F:\Projects\github\cloudconeapi> git checkout -- D .gitignore D LICENSE Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. PS F:\Projects\github\cloudconeapi>
Git Cheat Sheet
git --version git --help git config --global user.name git config --global user.email git config --list git clone git pull git pull -a : pull all branches git add git commit git push git clean git remote add <url> git remote rm <reponame> git remote -v git ls-files --deleted git checkout -- <file> git checkout branch-name-here git branch --delete branch-name-here git rm --cached .env git rm -r --cached vendor
git clean untracked files
PS F:\Projects\github\lthwnodejs> git clean -i -d
Would remove the following item:
node_modules/
*** Commands ***
1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers
4: ask each 5: quit 6: help
What now> c
Removing node_modules/
PS F:\Projects\github\lthwnodejs>
.gitignore file must use UTF-8 encoding
I once have no idea why one of my .gitignore files was encoded as UTF-16 LE. So all untracked files keep showing and cannot use 'git add .' to add all new/modified files. Search google to find solution and then change encoding to UTF-8 solved my issue.
Learn Version Control with Git
This is a step-by-step course for the complete beginner.
https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/ebook/en/command-line/introduction
Learn Git on Codecademy
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-git
SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git by Arnaldo Cavazos on open.SAP.com
https://open.sap.com/courses/git1
Read giteveryday man page
giteveryday - A useful minimum set of commands for Everyday Git
Version Control with Git on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/version-control-with-git
What esle to learn about git?
By the way, what does git means in English?
