Useful Git Commands

When I'm working with git, once in a while I found myself searching through google for proper command syntax. For those who struggle like me and for myself, I decided to maintain a command list.

If you are using git for the first time you need to setup git with your email and name.

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "john doe"

Create a new git repository in current directory

git init

Add created repository in github as "origin" using remote repository url.

git remote add origin https://github.com/someuser/anyrepo.git

Check current status of the repository.

git status

Add modified files to commit.

git add .
git add file.ext

Commit all modified files or commit file by file with a proper commit message.

git commit -m "commit message."
git commit file.ext -m "commit message."

Push committed files to the origin from master. usually goes like push to <remote> from <master>

git push origin master

Undo your last pushed commit

git push -f origin HEAD^:master

If you need to ignore certain files or folders you need to create a .gitignore file and the folder names as bellow.

#ignore all files in node_modules.
node_modules/

#ignore .ext files.
*.ext

#but track this file, even though all .ext files are ignored
!importantFile.ext