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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Git basic commands to work on Git Bash command promt

 

Steps to use Git commands on the Git Bash command prompt:

1. Create a new folder

2. Right click with mouse on the newly created folder, then you will be prompted with following snap

3. Click on Git Bash Here option

4. Then you will see a new icon displayed on the toolbar as shown below



5. Click on the icon to view the Git Bash window with $ symbol 


6. Here you go...  use the below git commands as per the need



Git commands

Task to Perform

Description

Git commands

Configure the user name and email address

Configure User name and mail ID in repository

git config --global user.name "Vasu Chiluveru"

git config --global user.email vasu@chiluveru.com

Create

New local repository

git init

 

 

Checkout

In local working directory

git clone repositoryURL

In remote working directory

git clone username@host:repositoryURL

Clone from Branch

git clone –b <branchname> repositoryURL

When see any SSL issue while cloning

git config --global http.sslVerify false

 

Add file/files to repository

Add one

git add <filename>

 

more files

git add *

 

 

 

Commit

Commit changes to Master

git commit -m "Commit message"

Commit any files you've added or changed

git commit -a

Push

Send changes to the master

git push origin master

Status

List the files that changed

git status

Connect to a remote

remote repository

git remote add origin <server>

List all remote repositories

git remote -v

 

      

       Branches

Switch to new branch

git checkout -b <branchname>

Switch between branches

git checkout <branchname>

List all the branches

git branch

Delete the branch

git branch -d <branchname>

Push the branch to origin

git push origin <branchname>

Push all branches

git push --all origin

Delete a branch

git push origin :<branchname>

 

 

 Update remote repository

      1.     Fetch and merge changes

git pull

      2.     To merge a different branch

git merge <branchname>

      3.     View all the merge conflicts the source file

git diff

git diff --base <filename>

git diff <sourcebranch> <targetbranch>

      4.     After resolve any conflicts, you mark the changed file

git add <filename>

 

 

Tags

tagging to mark a significant changeset

git tag 1.0 <Commit_ID>

Commit_ID is the leading characters of the changeset ID

git log

Push all tags to origin

git push --tags origin

 

 Rollback local changes

Have you mess up, you can replace the changes back

git checkout --<filename>

To drop all your local changes and commits, fetch the latest history

git fetch origin

 

git reset --hard origin/master

Search

Search the working directory

git grep "foo()"

Remove

Remove any file/s

git rm /main/src/*.txt

Move or Rename

Move or rename a file

git mv oldname newname

 

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