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What do you meant by GIT?

Git is the free and open source distributed version control system that’s responsible for everything GitHub related that happens on your local computer.

What is the purpose of GIT?

GIT is a DevOps tool and it’s purpose is to handle small and large projects efficiently. GIT enables collaboration among different people in different parts of the same project.

Listing of A to Z GIT commands:

SETUP 
Configuring user information used across all local repositories

git config –global user.name “[firstname lastname]”
set a name that is identifiable for credit when review version history

git config –global user.email “[valid-email]”
set an email address that will be associated with each history marker

git config –global color.ui auto
set automatic command line coloring for Git for easy reviewing

Configuring user information, initializing and cloning repositories

git init
initialize an existing directory as a Git repository

git clone [url]
retrieve an entire repository from a hosted location via URL

BRANCH & MERGE
Isolating work in branches, changing context, and integrating changes

git branch
list your branches. a * will appear next to the currently active branch

git branch [branch-name]
create a new branch at the current commit

git checkout
switch to another branch and check it out into your working directory

git merge [branch]
merge the specified branch’s history into the current one

git log
show all commits in the current branch’s history

SHARE & UPDATE
Retrieving updates from another repository and updating local repos

git remote add [alias] [url]
add a git URL as an alias

git fetch [alias]
fetch down all the branches from that Git remote

git merge [alias]/[branch]
merge a remote branch into your current branch to bring it up to date

git push [alias] [branch]
Transmit local branch commits to the remote repository branch

git pull
fetch and merge any commits from the tracking remote branch

TRACKING PATH CHANGES
Versioning file removes and path changes

git rm [file]
delete the file from project and stage the removal for commit

git mv [existing-path] [new-path]
change an existing file path and stage the move

git log –stat -M
show all commit logs with indication of any paths that moved TEMPORARY COMMITS. Temporarily store modified, tracked files in order to change branches

git stash
Save modified and staged changes

git stash list
list stack-order of stashed file changes

git stash pop
write working from top of stash stack

git stash drop
discard the changes from top of stash stack

REWRITE HISTORY
Rewriting branches, updating commits and clearing history

git rebase [branch]
apply any commits of current branch ahead of specified one

git reset –hard [commit]
clear staging area, rewrite working tree from specified commit

INSPECT & COMPARE
Examining logs, diffs and object information

git log
show the commit history for the currently active branch

git log branchB..branchA
show the commits on branchA that are not on branchB

git log –follow [file]
show the commits that changed file, even across renames

git diff branchB…branchA
show the diff of what is in branchA that is not in branchB

git show [SHA]
show any object in Git in human-readable format

IGNORING PATTERNS
Preventing unintentional staging or commiting of files

git config –global core.excludesfile [file]
system wide ignore patern for all local repositories
logs/
*.notes
pattern*/
Save a file with desired paterns as .gitignore with either direct string matches or wildcard globs