30+ Git Commands That I Frequently Use

In this article, I will list out all the git commands that I use very frequently. This is not in any way a complete list, just the commands that I use very often. This is intended to be used as a quick reference to perform an action that you want.

Clone repo
Clone repo into specified directory
Initialize current directory as a git repo
Add a file
Add all the files in current directory
Add all the files including files in .gitignore
Create a new commit
Add changes to existing commit
Show status
Show status in short format
Show status in short format and show branch
Show the commit logs
Show the diff for unstaged files
Show the diff for staged files
Show all the remotes with URLs
Add a new remote
Change URL for existing remote
Switch to another branch
Create a new branch and switch to it
Remove all the unstaged changes in the current directory
Remove all the unstaged changes for a file
Push local changes to the remote repo
Push and set the remote as upstream
Force push local changes to the remote repo
Delete the branch in the remote repo
Delete the branch locally
Force delete the branch locally
Remove all untracked files and directories
Merge the branch to the current branch
Fetch changes from the remote and merge
Remove all the changes to the tracked files that haven't been committed yet

git clone

# Create 'blogs' folder and clone the 'pbteja1998/blogs' repo into it
git clone https://github.com/pbteja1998/blogs.git

# Create `my-blogs` folder and clone the `pbteja1998/blogs` repo into it
git clone https://github.com/pbteja1998/blogs.git my-blogs

git init

# Initializes the current directory as a git repo
git init

git add

# Adds the file contents to the index
# Ready to be committed next time you run `git commit`
# By default, Ignores the files present in `.gitignore`

# Add a single file
git add README.md

# Add all the files in the current directory
git add .

# Also adds the files present in `.gitignore`
git add -f .

git commit

# Commits/Records the changes to the local repo
git commit -m "some message"

# Does not create a new commit
# Adds the changes to the most recent commit
git commit --amend

git status

# Shows the status of the working tree
git status

# Shows the output in short format
git status -s

# Shows the branch even in short format
git status -sb

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git log

# Shows the commit logs
git log

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git diff

# Shows the changes between unstaged files and the commits
git diff

# Shows the changes between staged(ready-to-be-committed) files and the commits
git diff --staged

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git remote

# Shows all the remotes configured and their remote URL
git remote -v

# Adds a remote
# git remote add <remote-name> <remote-url>
git remote add upstream https://github.com/something/blogs.git

# Changes the URL of the remote
git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/some-thing/blogs.git

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git checkout

# Switch to branch 
# git checkout <branch>
git checkout master

# Creates a new branch and switch to that
git checkout -b new-feature

# Removes all the unstaged changes in the current directory
git checkout .

# Removes all the unstaged changes for a file
git checkout -- README.md

git push

# Pushes the local changes to the remote to keep it up-to-date
git push origin master

# Force push the local changes to the remote
# Usually git will not allow you to push to the remote if the remote has some commits that are not present in the local repo
# This will override that check and lets you force push to the remote
# This may cause the remote to lose some commits. So use it carefully.
git push -f origin master

# Push and set the remote as upstream 
# same as `git push --set-upstream origin feature-branch`
git push -u origin feature-branch

# Deletes the branch in the remote
# same as `git push --delete origin new-feature`
git push -d origin new-feature

git branch

# Deletes the branch locally
# same as `git branch --delete feature-branch`
git branch -d feature-branch

# Force delete a branch even if it's not merged
# same as `git branch --delete --force feature-branch`
git branch -D feature-branch

git clean

# Removes all the files and directories that are not yet tracked by git
git clean -fd

git merge

# Merges the <branch> to the current branch
# git merge <branch>
git merge feature-branch

git pull

# Fetches the changes from the remote and merge it into local repo
git pull origin master

git reset

# Removes all the changes to the tracked files that have not yet been committed
git reset --hard

What's Next?

The next article will most probably be a part of My Review of Kent C. Dodds's EpicReact.Dev. Check out the series page for more info.

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30+ Git Commands That I Frequently Use

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git init

git add

git commit

git status

git log

git diff

git remote

git checkout

git push

git branch

git clean

git merge

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git reset

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git clone

git init

git add

git commit

git status

git log

git diff

git remote

git checkout

git push

git branch

git clean

git merge

git pull

git reset

What's Next?

Until Next Time 👋