About Git…

Git is a version control system that helps developers track changes to files and collaborate with other developers.

Some Git Commands…

Here are some common Git commands and a brief description of what they do:

1. git init – This initializes Git in a directory.
2. git clone – This makes a copy of an existing Git repository.
3. git add – This adds a file to the staging area
4. git commit – This saves changes to the local repository
5. git push – This sends local commits to a remote repository
6. git pull – This fetches and merges changes from a remote repository
7. git branch – This lists, creates, or deletes branches
8. git merge – This merges branches together
9. git status – This shows the status of the local repository
10. git log – This shows a log of all commits in the current branch
11. git fetch – This downloads new commits and branch heads from a remote repository but doesn’t merge them with the local branches
12. git reset – This discards commits, moving the branch pointer to a previous commit
13. git stash – This temporarily saves changes that have not yet been committed, allowing you to switch branches without committing your changes
14. git tag – This adds a tag to a specific commit
15. git blame – This shows the last modification for each line in a file
16. git diff – This shows the differences between two commits, branches, or files
17. git config – This sets configuration options for a Git repository
18. git cherry-pick – This applies a commit from one branch to another branch
19. git rebase – This reapplies commits on top of another branch

More Git Commands…

Here are more git commands:

1. git apply – This applies a patch to a set of files
2. git grep – This searches for a specific pattern in the repository
3. git archive – This creates a zip or tar archive of the repository
4. git gc – This optimizes the Git repository by cleaning up unnecessary files and compressing file data
5. git bisect – This helps you find the commit that introduced a bug by performing a binary search through the commit history
6. git flow – This is a collection of Git extensions that provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen’s branching model
7. git submodule – This is a mechanism for including one Git repository inside another
8. git am – This applies a series of patches from email messages
9. git filter-branch – This rewrites the Git commit history, applying filters to each commit
10. git shortlog – This shows a summary of commits, grouped by author
11. git describe – This shows a human-readable description of a commit, based on the nearest tag
12. git blame --date=short – This shows the last modification for each line in a file, including the date of the commit
13. git diff --stat – This shows a summary of the changes between two commits, including the number of lines added and removed
14. git stash list – This shows a list of all stashed changes
15. git stash apply – This applies a stashed change to the current branch
16. git stash drop – This discards a stashed change
17. git stash pop – This applies a stashed change and removes it from the stash list
18. git stash clear – This discards all stashed changes
19. git config --global – This sets a configuration option for all of your Git repositories
20. git config --system – This sets a configuration option for all users on a system
21. git config --local – This sets a configuration option for the current repository

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