Git Tutorial: How To See Your Most Used Git Commands Using a Script

history | awk '{print $2 $3}' | grep '^git'  | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10

1. Status
2. Add
3. Commit
4. Branch
5. Push
6. Checkout
7. Log
8. Pull
9. Diff
10. Reset

1. Git Status

$ git status

• Displays the state of the repo.
• You should always use git status because knowing the status of the repo is a MUST.

2. Git Add

$ git add [file1] [file2]

• Adds modified files to git’s staging index.

$ git add .

• Period (.) - Alias to use when you want to stage all modified files.

$ git add -p [file]

• The interactive mode that lets you select which parts of the file should be moved to the staging index.

3. Git Commit

$ git commit -m "[message]"

$ git commit -m "add login button"

• Commits the modified files from the staging index.

$ git commit

• Opens a text editor so you can write longer commit messages.

$ git commit --amend

• Alter most recent commit.
• If the working directory is clean, opens a text editor so you can modify your recent commit message.
• Also used to add forgotten files in the recent commit.

4. Git Branch

$ git branch

• List all branches in the repo.
• Shows what your current branch is.

$ git branch [branch-name]

$ git branch feature/login-button

• Creates a new branch.

$ git branch -d [branch-name]

• Deletes a branch.
• Move to another branch first.

$ git branch -m [old-name] [new-name]

• Renames an existing branch.

5. Git Push

$ git push

• Pushes the local changes of the repo to the remote repo.

$ git push -u [remote] [local-branch]

$ git push -u origin feature/login-button

• Pushes the current local branch as a new branch of the remote repo if not existing.

$ git push -u [remote] [local-branch]:[remote-branch-rename]

$ git push -u origin feature/login-button:WIP/feature/login-button

• Pushes the local branch to remote but you can choose the name of the remote branch.

6. Git Checkout

$ git checkout [branch]

• Goes to that branch.

$ git checkout -b [new-branch]

• An alternative for git branch
• Create a new branch and checkout to a new branch.

$ git checkout [commit-sha]

• Checkouts to a temporary branch that is based on the specified commit.

$ git checkout [file1] [file2]

• Undoes changes to an unstaged file.

$ git checkout .

• Undo all modified files in the repo.

7. Git Log

$ git log

• Shows a list of the recent commits of a repo.
• Displays the SHA, author, date and message of the commits.

$ git log --oneline

• Displays shorter version.
• Only shows SHA and message of commits.

$ git log -S"[code]"

$ git log -S"<button>Login</button>"

• Returns commits with file changes that matches the string specified with -S

8. Git Pull

$ git pull

• Pull changes from remote.

$ git pull [remote] [remote-branch]

$ git pull origin feature/login-button

• Pulls the specific branch from the remote repo.

9. Git Diff

$ git diff

• Displays the modified files that aren’t yet added to the staging index.

$ git diff [file]

• Displays changes that that aren’t yet added to the staging index for a specific file.

$ git diff --staged

• Displays the modified files that are already added to the staging index.

10. Git Reset

$ git reset [file1] [file2]

• Undoes git add.

$ git reset .

• Unstage all modified files.

$ git reset [commit-sha]

• Erase commits.
• Moves the current branch pointer to the referenced commit SHA.