Doku Wiki

Every Git page below this section is a candidate for current updating – many of those pages are still just fine, but are subject to improvement in the near future.

• Git all commands
• Git plumbing porcelain
• Git init
• Git config
• Git clone
• Git blame
• Git aliases
• Git branch
• Git revisions
• Git log
• Git add rm
• Git mv
• Git commit
• What makes a good Git Commit?
• Git shortlog
• Git undoing things
• Git revert
• Git ignore
• Git clean
• Git searching
• Git show
• Git diff
• Git merge
• Git stash
• Git rebase
• Git hooks
• Git bisect
• Git worktree
• Git count-objects
• Git fsck
• Git gc

• Git dealing with remotes

• Git clone
• Git tag
• Git reset
• Git cherry-pick
• Git reflog
• Git attributes
• Git submodules
• Git for each ref

• Git instaweb
• Git sharing objects
• Git writing an arbitrary blob
• Git move uncommitted changes to topic branch
• Git bare shallow clones
• Git install from source

• git prune (use git gc, which calls git prune)
• git whatchanged (use git log)
• git annotate (use git blame)

• Git cannot track empty directories
• Git does not track renames
• How do I edit the root commit?
• How do I clone a repository with all remotely tracked branches?
• How do I recover uncommitted changes?
• sparse checkout

• Pro Git book
• kernel.org Git docs
• Git Cookbook
• Git Atlassian content

• WRT next commit, what is in the index is all that matters.
• git ls-files
• More people should read man gitcli. Seriously.
• git log --remove-empty – stop when a given path disappears.
• git reset will not delete files it does not track, including files it is told to ignore.
• git push will not affect the remote working tree; try to avoid pushing to non-bare repos
• git config --global alias.unadd “reset HEAD”
• git rev-list HEAD | tail -1 to get root commit
• Config variable checkout.defaultRemote
• use git fsck to track down staged, then reset files (git show)
• reset a file with git checkout -p
• git rm -rf :/ && git checkout commit-ish – :/
• Danger with reverting a merge commit.
• Renaming:
  • git log -M
• git push origin +branchname
• git checkout -b maint origin/maint
• What files changed in a given commit? git diff –name-only <commit>^!

• comprehensive guide to dealing with whitespace issues
• branch names and wildcarding
• git cat-file -p HEAD
• git ls-tree -r HEAD
• git ls-files -s
• replace/graft
• smudge and clean filters

• git whitespace
• git clone variations

• git rev-list
• Git subtrees
• Git Workflow
• GitHub workflow
• Git Fedora packages