Git - File versioning system

Generel commands for working with git

• git clone - download repository to local
• git checkout [branch name] - Checkout a branch
• git checkout -b [branch name] - Create a new branch
• git branch- Get a list of branches in this repository
• git pull - Get new changes from remote
• git add [filename] - Add new files to repository
• git commit -am "Message describing the committed code" - Commit all changes to the repository
• git commit path/to/file -m "Message describing the committed code" - Commit single file to the repository
• git push- push your changes to remote

Git configuration

• git config --global user.name "Your Name" - Add global username to your git configuration
• git config --global user.email "you@example.com" - Add global email to your git configuration

Ignore files globally

Create .gitignore_global in your home folder. Run this echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore_global - to create .gitignore_global file in your home folder and exclude all .DS_Store files.

Run git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global for git to use it for all repositories. You need to run this everytime you update .gitignore_global