ashishu007/git-commands

few git commands that might be useful

Creating/Maintaining Git repo using command line.

Create a repository on GitHub using the GUI on its website.

Let the name of repo be myRepo

This repo can be termed as remote.

Now Clone the repo to the local machine

git clone https://github.com/your_username/myRepo.git

Alternatively

If you already have a directory on your local machine and want to connect with the GitHub repo, you can do like this -

Open the terminal inside the folder and initialize it with:

git init

This can be tered as local.

Synchronization

Now connect your local with remote by using this command:

git remote add origin https://github.com/your_username/myRepo.git

Then synchronize your local with remote by using this command:

git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories

Now your local code-base is synced with your remote GitHub repo.

These steps are required to be done once in the start only.

Updating

The next three steps can be used to update your changes anytime.

1. git add .
2. git commit -m "some message"
3. git push origin master

For a specific branch, change the third command as:

3. git push origin branch_name

You can also clone an already existing/developed library using:

git clone https://github.com/repo_owners_username/repo_name.git

To clone a specific branch, use:

git clone -b branch_name https://github.com/repo_owners_username/repo_name.git

To delete a branch:

git push --delete origin branch_name

To untrack the tracked changes:

git rm --cached . -r (This will untrcak all the changes)

Get the remote url

git config --get remote.origin.url

Change the remote url

git remote set-url origin new.git.url/here

Change the local repo name

git branch -mv master main
    
git branch -mv old_name new_name