Quick Git Training

Basics:

• First-time git setup
• Getting & creating projects (or repositories)
• Snapshotting & working with files
• Branching & merging
• Sharing projects (repositories) through git servers
• Inspection & comparison
• Using gitignore
• Undo things
• Tips
• ToDo

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First-time git setup:

If you are new in git (new installer or first-time user) , you need to add some configuration for the first time.

you can see or write configs using git config command.

Command	Description
git config --global user.name "your name"	Add (update) your name into configs.
git config --global user.email [email protected]	Add (update) your email into configs.
git config --list	Show list of current configs.

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Getting & creating projects:

Command	Description
git init	Initialize a local Git repository
git clone <repository-url>	Create a local copy of a remote repository

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Snapshotting & working with files:

Command	Description
git status	Check status
git add <file-name.txt>	Add a file to the staging area
git add -A	Add all new and changed files to the staging area
git commit -m "<commit-message>"	Commit changes
git commit -am "<commit-message>"	Add and commit changes in one command
git rm -r <file-name.txt>	Remove a file (or folder) recursively
git mv <file-name.txt> <path/new-file-name.txt>	Move or rename a file (or folder)
git cp <file-name.txt> <copy-file-name.txt>	Copy a file (or folder)

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Branching & merging:

Command	Description
git branch	List branches (the asterisk denotes the current branch)
git branch -a	List all branches (local and remote)
git branch <branch-name>	Create a new branch
git branch -d <branch-name>	Delete a branch
git push origin --delete <branch-name>	Delete a remote branch
git checkout -b <branch-name>	Create a new branch and switch to it
git checkout -b <branch-name> origin/<branch-name>	Clone a remote branch and switch to it
git checkout <branch-name>	Switch to a branch
git checkout -	Switch to the branch last checked out
git merge <branch-name>	Merge a branch into the active branch
git merge <source-branch> <target-branch>	Merge a branch into a target branch

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Sharing projects through git servers:

git is a distributed version control system (DVCS), that means you can commit your work locally, and then sync your copy of the repository with the copy on the git server, so your team can have access to the latest files of the project through the git servers.

if you want to use remote servers, you have 2 steps:

1. Add your remote server:

Command	Description
git remote add <remote-name> <remote-repository-url>	Add a remote repository.
git remote set-url <remote-name> <remote-repository-new-url>	Set a new url for <remote-name> repository. (change the given remote's URL)

2. Push or pull your files :

Command	Description
git push origin <branch-name>	Push a branch to your remote repository
git push -u origin <branch-name>	Push changes to remote repository (and remember the branch)
git push	Push changes to remote repository (remembered branch)
git push origin --delete <branch-name>	Delete a remote branch
git pull	Update local repository to the newest commit
git pull origin <branch-name>	Pull changes from remote repository

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Inspection & Comparison:

Command	Description
git log	View changes
git log --summary	View changes (detailed)
git diff <source-branch> <target-branch>	Preview changes before merging

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Using gitignore:

The .gitignorefile, tells git which files (or patterns) it should ignore. It's usually used to avoid committing transient files from your working directory that aren't useful to other collaborators, such as compilation products, temporary files IDEs create, etc. (Note that all the gitignore files really concern only files that are not already tracked by git)

Create a file and name it .gitignore, then use the below rules to ignore files:

• A line starting with # serves as a comment.
• An optional prefix ! which negates the pattern.
• A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. For example, /*.c matches cat-file.c but not mozilla-sha1/sha1.c.
• /**/ matches all sub pathnames, for example, a/**/b matches a/b, a/x/b, a/x/y/b and so on.
• A trailing /** matches everything inside. For example, abc/** matches all files inside directory abc, relative to the location of the .gitignore file, with infinite depth.
• [] matches one character in a selected range, for example [a-z] matches any character from a to z (a,b,c,d to z).
• ? matches any one character except /
• * matches anything except /

Example:

# this is a comment
# exclude everything except directory foo/bar
/*
!/foo
/foo/*
!/foo/bar

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Undo things:

We have 2 different states:

• Undoing uncommitted changes

• Undoing committed changes

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Tips:

• Don’t code for a whole weekend on five different issues and then submit them all as one massive commit on Monday. Even if you don’t commit during the weekend, use the staging area on Monday to split your work into at least one commit per issue, with a useful message per commit.
• Write your commit message in the imperative: Fix bug and not Fixed bug or Fixes bug. This convention matches up with commit messages generated by commands like git merge and git revert.

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TODO

we have something to add or complete in future in this document. you can help us to complete the ToDo list by doing them and creating pull request .

• Complete the Undo things section.
• Add a section for Rebasing and cherry-pick technique.
• Add a Tags and versioning section.
• Add a some examples in each section.