Git is a version-control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. This page contains a few useful git commands

Most common flow of commands

$ git add .
$ git status # Lists all new or modified files to be committed
$ git commit -m "Second commit"
$ git push -u origin master

1. Create a repository on Github
2. Go to your local project folder and git init.

git init

3. Add README.md file using echo "Hello" >> README.md
4. Add .gitignore file manually and add the below content if your project is an eclipse maven project

# Eclipse
.classpath
.project
.settings/
# Intellij
.idea/
*.iml
*.iws
# Mac
.DS_Store
# Maven
log/
target/

5. Add remote repository using git remote add origin https://github.com/ayosuva/test.git

git remote add origin https://github.com/ayosuva/test.git

6. create branch using git branch -M master

git branch -M master

7. Add .gitignore file alone using git add .gitignore and then commit using git commit -m ".gitignore commit"

git add .gitignore
git commit -m ".gitignore commit"

8. push the commits using git push -u origin master use git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories if you have initialized the repo in GitHub and also committed locally

git push -u origin master
git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories

9. Now add the all others files using git add . – Adds all the files in the local repository and stages them for commit.

git add .

10. commit using git commit -m ".gitignore commit"

git commit -m ".gitignore commit"

11. push the commits using git push -u origin master

git push -u origin master

12. To clone the existing report use git clone repository path

git clone https://github.com/ayosuva/SeleniumBDD.git

13. To pull the latest code from the current repo

git pull

14. To know the git version

git --version

15. To add and list git config

$ git config --global user.name "YOUR_USERNAME"

$ git config --global user.email "atest@test.com"

$ git config --global --list # To check the info you just provided

16. To see what files are staged

git status

17. Uncommit Changes you just made to your Git Repo

$ git reset HEAD~1
# Remove the most recent commit
# Commit again!

18. See the Changes you made to your file

$ git diff # To show the files changes not yet staged

19. Revert back to the last committed version to the Git Repo

$ git checkout .

OR for a specific file

$ git checkout -- <filename>

20. View Commit History

$ git log