Useful git commands for everyday use!

What is Git? It is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Nowaday, Git is very popular and familiar source with coders' community. In this post, I will recommand some useful git commands that can help you so much. Let's go! 

Useful git commands

Init git project

git init 

Clone repo from link

git clone [link]

View remote

git remote

Save username, password

git config credential.helper store

Update code and write to local file 

git pull

Pull new code but not write to file

git fetch

Switch branch

git fetch origin         <----this will fetch the branch
git checkout branch_name <--- Switching the branch

Rename branch

Rename your local branch

If you are on the branch you want to rename:

git branch -m new-name

If you are on a different branch:

git branch -m old-name new-name

Delete the old-name remote branch and push the new-name local branch

git push origin :old-name new-name

Reset the upstream branch for the new-name local branch. Switch to the branch and then

git push origin -u new-name

 

Update submodules

git pull --recurse-submodules

or

git submodule update --remote --recursive

git stash
git stash pop
git checkout [file/folder]
git checkout -f branch
git branch

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