Git How Tos: Popular Git commands by category

Basics

• Add file or directory to staging
• Ignore files and directories
• Provide a message with your commit
• Show the status of the files in the current branch
• Commit changes to the local repository
• Create a new local repository
• Clone an existing (remote) repository in the current directory
• Show the current branch name and other information
• Show whether the current branch is up-to-date, ahead or behind the remote branch
• Track new or modified files
• Add all files to staging
• Move files

Branches

• Create a branch and checkout (switch) to it
• Delete local or remote branch
• Delete local branch
• Delete remote branch
• List both local and remote branches
• Switch to a different (existing) branch using "git checkout"
• Create a new branch
• List the available local branches
• List only remote branches
• List the available branches with details about the upstream branch and last commit message

Configuration

• Edit the global configuration
• Show the currently configured email address
• Show the email address configured for a specific location (e.g. worktree, local, global, system)
• Show the currently configured user name
• Show the user name configured for a specific location (e.g. worktree, local, global, system)
• Set the user name for all repositories
• Set the email address for all repositories
• Edit the local configuration
• Set up the default text editor
• Set the user name for the current repository
• Set the email address for the current repository
• Edit the system configuration
• List all the configured variables
• Associate Notepad++ as the default editor
• Associate VisualStudio Code as the default text editor
• Associate TextMate as the default editor
• Associate Atom as the default text editor
• Associate Sublime Text as the default editor

Diff

• Show the changes of both staged and unstaged files since the last commit
• Show the changes of files that are staged
• Show the changes of files that are not yet staged for commit

Log

• Show the log containing commit history
• Show the latest N commits
• Show the log, one line for each commit
• Show the commits that affect a specific file or directory
• Show a patch with changes introduced by each commit
• Show the log as a graph
• Filter the log entries by author name
• Filter the log entries by committer name
• Filter the log entries by date range
• Filter the log entries by commit message containing a string

Merge

• Merge branches
• Finalize the merge commit after resolving conflicts
• Mark the file as resolved after a merge conflict
• Abort a merge
• Resolve conflicts visually using a merge tool
• Rebase the current branch
• Cherry-pick commits

Remotes

• Add remote repositories
• Fetch data from a remote repository
• Pull data from a remote repository
• Push data to a remote repository
• List the configured remotes
• Show the configured remotes together with their URLs
• Remove a remote
• Rename a remote
• Inspect a remote

Stash

• Push files to stash
• List the stash entries
• Apply a stash entry to the current working tree
• Pop a stash entry and apply its contents
• Drop a stash entry from the stash list
• Clear all the stash entries
• Show the file modifications saved in the stash

Subtrees

• Add a repository inside another repository (using subtrees)
• Pull a subtree
• Push a subtree

Undo

• Revert a commit
• Change the message and/or files of the last commit
• Untrack files AND remove them from working tree
• Untrack files from staging area, without removing them from the working tree
• Unstage file using "git reset"
• Unstage file using "git restore"
• Revert file using "git checkout --"
• Reset the staging area to a specific commit
• Reset the working directory to the state of a specific commit
• Revert a file using "git restore"