Git - Cheatsheet

Posted on Fri 11 March 2016 in git

Initialize bare repository
```
$ git init .
```
Amending the commit message which is not pushed
```
$ git commit --amend
```
Force push amended commit message to a remote branch
```
$ git push remote_name branch_name -f
```
Undo git add to files staged for git commit
```
$ git reset HEAD file_name 
```
or
```
$ git rm --cached file_name 
```
Usage: git reset HEAD a.sh or git rm --cached a.sh

This command will remove a file named a.sh from the current index, the "about to be committed" area, without changing anything else.
Diff files which are under staging
```
$ git diff --staged 
```
Diff between two commits
```
$ git diff commit_1 commit_2
```
Diff between two branches
```
$ git diff branch_1 branch_2
```
Push Local branch to central git repository
```
$ git push remote_name branch_name
```

Create patch using git format-patch

$ git format-patch master --stdout > fix_empty_poster.patch

View first 3 commit messages in git log
```
$ git log --pretty=oneline -3 
```
Adding signed-off in commit message
```
$ git commit -s -m "commit_message" 
```
Using pull without unwanted merge commits
```
$ git pull --rebase 
```
Deleting last commit in local repository
```
$ git reset HEAD^ --hard 
```

Deleting last commit from remote repository

$ git reset HEAD^ --hard

$ git push origin master -f