My Git Handbook

2023-09-01

My git handbook covering some of the commands which I use every other day.

• Ignore files only for you without using .gitignore - add the patterns to exclude in .git/info/exclude file

• Get summary of stashes: git stash list --stat

• Checkout a branch from remote: git pull <remote> <remote-branch-name>; git checkout -b <local-name> <remote>/<remote-branch-name>. Ex: git checkout -b test upstream/test

• Pull and rebase: git pull upstream main --rebase

• Git checkout a pull request from github: git fetch upstream pull/$ID/head:$branchname

• Git show files changed in commit: git show commit-id --name-only

• Git show files changed between commits: git show commit-id1..commit-id2 --name-only

• Get permalink from github cli: Ex: gh browse README.md:3-5 --no-browser --commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)

• Git reset local to upstream: git fetch upstream; git reset --hard upstream/main

• Git view a file history: git log --follow <filename>

• Checkout changes from a file from a different branch: git checkout myotherbranch <filename>

• Delete a remote branch: git push -d origin <branch-name>

• Git rebase interactive example: git rebase -i HEAD~5