Git Cheat Sheet¶

Configure Tooling¶

Setting a name to be recorded in created commits

$ git config user.name "[your full name]"

Setting an email address to be recorded in commits.

$ git config user.email "[email address]"

Showing differences between staged and the last file version

$ git diff --staged

Unstaging a file while keeping it in the working tree

$ git reset [file]

Canceling the previous commit while keeping the working tree

$ git reset --soft HEAD^

Discarding a change to a file

$ git checkout -- [file]

Creating a new branch and checking it out

$ git checkout -b [branch-name]

or

$ git branch [branch-name]
$ git checkout [branch-name]

Showing the commit ID of HEAD

$ git rev-parse HEAD

Retrieving files from a repository without cloaning it

$ git archive --format tar --remote [path] HEAD | tar xvf -