GIT & GITHUB

basically

• GIT.

  version control

• GITHUB.

  collab

terminology

• Repo

  A project

• Commit

  Save Staged Changes. Basically save/update/delete files in the spotlight(stage).

  • hash
  • allows history browsing with notes
• Branching

  main branch(default master)= root

  • other branches = experimentals
  • merge branches to include.
• Push

  upload commits to remote.

• Pull Request

  request to merge branches/ forks.

• Fork

  create a duplicate , no change to core repo.

• Issues

  to resolve, suggestions or bugs,ideas, sticky notes of todos

  • if u commit with a fixes #issueId, issue closed automaticalyy with that commit
• Clone

  Download/Pull from server

• Remote

  clone living on some server, here, GITHUB.

• Make a branch named gh-pages, and switch on the github pages for it. This hosts ur site on github.io :).

copy pasta commands

• make present working directory a git repo

   git init
  

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• stage file to commit

   git add filename
  

• stage all changes

    git add .
  

• stage all files currently existing in location.

    git add *
  

• delete a file and stage it’s deletion.

    git rm fname
  

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• commit the staged files with commit message.

   git commit -m msg
  

• commit all changes in curr repo with msg

   git commit -a -m "msg"
  

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• reset last n commits

    git reset --soft HEAD~n
  

• rename main branch

    git branch -M localMain
  

• track changes of a remote branch

    git branch --set-upstream-to=localNameForRemoteRep/branchname localbranchename
  

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• list remotes assosiated, and describe them

   git remote -v
  

• add a link to a repo on some remote server

   git remote add localNameForRemoteRep remoteRepoUrl
  

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• get changes made in given branch of remote repo and update local branch with them.

   git pull localNameForRemoteRep branchename
  

• upload current repository data and status to clone on server

    git push localNameForRemoteRep branchename
  

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• switch to another branch

    git checkout branchname
  

• switch to new branch

    git checkout -b branchname
  

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• check changes, branch , etc.

   git status
  

• show history upto last n commits/branches in Vim, exit by >q

   git log -n
  

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• configure

    git config --global user.name "name"
    git config --global user.email "mail"