Most Common Git Commands

Clone a repository:

git clone repo_name

Show all branches of a repository:

• show all remote and local branches git branch -a
• show all local branches git branch -r

Create a new branch:

• git checkout -b new_branch_name

Checkout a specific branch (where branch_name is the name of the branch you want to checkout):

• git fetch –all
• git checkout branch_name

Ignore files without adding them to .gitignore

• edit .gitconfig

[alias] ignore = update-index –assume-unchanged unignore = update-index –no-assume-unchanged

• add the desired file

git ignore myFile.extension

• remove the file from being ignored

git uningnore myFile.extension

Amend the previous commit:

git commit –amend

Create a patch from the last commit:

git format-patch -1 HEAD –stdout > 0001-last-commits.patch

Create a patch from the last commit (another variant that prints the file name as the commit name):

git format-patch -1

Apply a patch from the last patch file:

patch -p1 < example.patch