overview list - most used git commands

Question

Does anyone has a short list with most used git commands? Not the complete manual, but only what I approximately need daily. I'm new and would like a small list to put under my screen. This to pickup git faster.

That's all folks!

Answer 1

-To view branch you working on, globally origin(local machine) and main(github server): git branch

-To make sure all things are up to date before commit changes: git pull origin main

-To upload everything in current project git add . git commit -am "message to commit" git push origin main

You could check all other commands on website https://docs.github.com/en

Answer 2

I seem to be doing this all the time while synchronizing branches on different computers:

git fetch origin [newbranch]:[newbranch]

followed by, after checking out the branch and trying to pull,

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/[newbranch] [newbranch]

Answer 3

Note: Git 2.5+ (Q2 2015) will present the common Git commands in a more helpful format.

See commit 2241477 by Sébastien Guimmara (Groutcho), 21 May 2015.
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 6dec263, 01 Jun 2015)}
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine

help: respect new common command grouping

'git help' shows common commands in alphabetical order:

The most commonly used git commands are:
   add        Add file contents to the index
   bisect     Find by binary search the change that introduced a bug
   branch     List, create, or delete branches
   checkout   Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
   clone      Clone a repository into a new directory
   commit     Record changes to the repository
   [...]

without any indication of how commands relate to high-level concepts or each other.

Revise the output to explain their relationship with the typical Git workflow:

  These are common Git commands used in various situations:

  start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
     clone      Clone a repository into a new directory
     init       Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize [...]

  work on the current change (see also: git help everyday)
     add        Add file contents to the index
     reset      Reset current HEAD to the specified state

  examine the history and state (see also: git help revisions)
     log        Show commit logs
     status     Show the working tree status

     [...]

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With Git 2.18 (Q2 2018), the completion allows to customize the completable command list.

By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can now customize it a new config variable.

See commit 6532f37 and commit 3301d36 (20 May 2018) by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (pclouds).

completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias

By providing aliases via --list-cmds=, we could simplify command collection code in the script. We only issue one git command.
Before this patch that is "git config", after it's "git --list-cmds=".
In "git help" completion case we actually reduce one "git" process (for getting guides) but that call was added in this series so it does not really count.

There is a slight (good) change in _git_help() with this patch: before "git help <tab>" shows external commands (as in not part of git) as well as part of $__git_all_commands.
We have finer control over command listing now and can exclude that because we can't provide a man page for external commands anyway.

You now have the new setting:

completion.commands

This is only used by git-completion.bash to add or remove commands from the list of completed commands. Normally only porcelain commands and a few select others are completed.
You can add more commands, separated by space, in this variable.
Prefixing the command with '-' will remove it from the existing list.

Example:

git --list-cmds=list-mainporcelain,others,nohelpers,alias,list-complete,config

Answer 4

This is what I came up with. I have printed this out, and it helps me getting started with git commands:

git init
git status
git log --summary

git add file.txt
git add '*.txt'     : add all files, also in subfolders
git rm file.txt     : remove file
git rm -r foldername: remove file and folders recursively

git commit -m "Descriptive text of the change"

git remote add origin https://github.com/try-git/try_git.git
git push -u origin master
git pull origin master
git diff --staged

git add folder/file.txt         : Add file to staged area
git reset folder/file.txt       : Remove file from staged area
git checkout -- folder/file.txt : checkout the last know version, restore.
git branch feature      : create branch
git checkout feature    : use branch (and do the work)
git checkout master     : go back to master before merge
git merge feature       : merge branch into master
git branch -d feature   : delete that branch that is not used any more