Cheat sheet for git commandline

This sheet is created for people that just start out with the git command line. The bare basics to use git and get you quickly started and integrated with git.

Create local a new branch

git checkout -b branchName

Publish your local branch

git push --set-upstream origin branchName

Upload your changes to your current branch

git commit -am 'tell about your changes'
git push

The flag -am only adds all modified files NOT any new files

When you have created new file(s) the following one is required.

git add .
# or
git add ./path/to/file.txt
# or
git add ./path/to/folder

The add . will add all new and eddited files
The add ./path/to/file.txt will add that one file if it's new or edited
The add ./path/to/folder will add all the edited and new files in that folder

Then

git commit -m 'tell about your changes'
git push

The flag -m is only for adding the message: 'tell about your changes'

Get your local branches

git branch

Update your local branch with online (origin) branch

git pull

Update your local branch with an other online (origin) branch

git pull origin otherBranchName

Create a tag

1. Get the recent commits

git log --pretty=oneline

Output will look like this:

commithash (HEAD -> currentBranchName, origin/currentBranchName) commit message
commithash commit message
commithash (tag: example-commit-that-has-tag) commit message
commithash commit message

Copy the commithash of the commit you want to give a tag.

2. Create the tag.
   To bind the tag with a commit you paste the coppied commithash
   On the place where commithash stands in the following line:

git tag -a tag-name commithash

3. Publish the tag

git push origin tag-name