gGit

Git stores everything in a directory, rm -rf .git to delete the git project

git --help command

Changing History

Reflog

Saves every instance of head changes

git reflog #see list of head changes

#Alternate ways to jump to reflog HEADS
git checkout -b after-commit HEAD@{1}
git reset HEAD@{1}

Get specific file from past

git checkout <treeish> -- /path/to/dir/orfile.js

Rebase

• rewrites history, if commits not local can mess things up

• could also rebase all your branch commits to occur at end of current master to avoid a merge commit

git rebase master, rebases current branch to master one

Merge master in your branch before push

git pull --rebase origin master

Squash many commits to one

git rebase -i <COMMIT_TO_IGNORE>

1. Squash all but top

2. quit-save to rebase

Stash

git stash - Takes dirty changes and saves them without committing

git stash pop - Reapply last saved changes

git stash list
> stash@{0}: WIP on master: 049d078 added the index file
> stash@{1}: WIP on master: c264051 Revert "added file_size"
> stash@{2}: WIP on master: 21d80a5 added number to log

git stash apply stash@{2}

Undoing Last Commit

git reset --hard HEAD~1 => don't keep changes

git reset --soft HEAD~1 => undo commit, but keep working changes

git revert <commit to undo> =>Commit a commit undoing last commit

Remotes

git remote -v => List origins

Add remote

git remote add origin [github url]

Selecting branch to push from and to

git push origin develop:master
git push <remote> <local branch name>:<remote branch to push into>

Reset to remote branch

git checkout -B master origin/master //-B resets if it already exists

Other

List Branches By Last Modified

for k in $(git branch | perl -pe s/^..//); do echo -e $(git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k -- | head -n 1)\\t$k; done | sort -r

Tagging

git tag -a v1.4 -m "my version 1.4"

Delete branches

git branch -d <branchname>

git remote prune origin //remove all branches not in origin

Stop tracking file

git rm --cached <file>

Remove all Untracked files and build products

git clean -fd //remove everything untracked besides what is ignored by .gitignoregit clean -fdx //remove all untracked files including those ignored by .gitignoregit clean -fdX //only remove files ignored by .gitignore

Find commit that broke it

git bisect start
git bisect bad #current version is bad
git bisect good v2.6.13
#Starts wizard and checks out midpoint
git bisect bad #depending on if good or bad
git bisect good

Did you just change the case in Mac OSX? That will cause git issues

Git grep

git grep [string] find all lines tracked by the git repo with the given string

git grep -n -C 3 TeachApp

Modifiers:

• -n : show line numbers

• -C 5: show 5 context lines before and after

• -i: ignore case

Git Ignore

node_modules/ #any node_modules anywhere
/node_modules #only at route
*/node_modules #in any subdir

Git LFS(Large File Store)

Basically, lets you use large files in github by using fileptrs

Setup

1. brew install git-lfs

2. Track like git lfs track "*.psd" or have .gitattributes

.gitattributes

*.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.gif filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.mp4 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.mov filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.flv filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.webm filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text

Thats it, just use normal workflow

Other people

1. git lfs install to get huge assets

2. git lfs pull to get lfs