Learn how to use git and get accustomed with 15+ most common git commands.

1. ANOOP THOMAS MATHEW
CTO @ Profoundis Inc.
Getting Started with git

2. A Little Story
April 2005
Linux Kernel
BitKeeper issue
Linus Torvalds
36% professional developers
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3. Need for Distributed Version Control
Meet Smarty!
He works as a Software Developer.
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4. Need for Distributed Version Control
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His job
– Create
– Save
– Edit
– Repeat.
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5. Need for Distributed Version Control
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6. git Basics
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Distributed
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Collaborative History Tracking
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Merge
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Flexible
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Fast
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7. git workflow
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8. git workflow
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1. You MODIFYfiles in your working directory.
2. You STAGEthe files, adding snapshots of them to
your staging area.
3. You do a COMMIT, which takes the files as they
are in the staging area and stores that snapshot
permanently to your git directory.

9. git Basics
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10. @atmb4u@atmb4u
git commands

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git config --global user.name "UserName"
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git config --global user.email “email@example.com”
git config
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12. initialize a git repository on current folder
git init
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13. Retrives the status of the git repository
git status
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14. ●
Adds the file to the version control
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git add <filename>
git add
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15. ●
Commit the added changes to the repo
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git commit -m “commit message”
git commit
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16. ●
Add a remote server location for the repo
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git remote add origin <remote url>
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git remote rm origin
git remote
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17. ●
Push changes to the destination
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git push origin master
remote branch
git push
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18. ●
Shows the history of commits of the
current branch
git log
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19. ●
Shows the difference between two commits in git
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git diff 23f4af3 09fb5f2
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Writing this to a file gives you a patch
git diff
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20. ●
Include all changes specified in a patch file
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git apply <patch file>
git apply
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21. ●
download new branches and data from a
remote repository
git fetch
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22. ●
fetch from a remote repo and try to merge
into the current branch
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git pull <remote location> <branch>
git pull
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23. ●
list, create and manage working contexts
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git branch
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git branch <branch name>
(create new branch)
git branch
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24. ●
switch to a new branch context
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git checkout <branch name>
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git checkout -b <branch name>
(create branch and checkout)
git checkout
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25. ●
merge a branch context into your current
one
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git merge
git merge
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26. Merge conflicts !
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27. ●
tag a point in history as important
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git tag -a v1.0
git tag
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28. ●
remove files from the staging area
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git rm <file name>
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git rm –cached <file name>
git rm
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29. ●
save changes in the current index and working directory
for later
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git stash
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git stash apply
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git stash list
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git stash drop
git stash
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30. ●
save changes in the current index and working
directory for later
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git reset HEAD <file name>
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git reset --soft
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git reset HEAD --hard
git reset
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31. ●
copy a git repository so you can add to it
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git clone <remote repo url>
git clone
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32. ●
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