Git

File versioning system

Common commands for working with git

Download repository to local

git clone

Checkout a branch

git checkout [branch name]

Create a new branch

git checkout -b [branch name]

Get a list of branches in this repository

git branch

Get new changes from remote

git pull

Add new files to repository

git add [filename]

Commit all changes to the repository

git commit -am "Message describing the committed code"

Commit single file to the repository

git commit path/to/file -m "Message describing the committed code"

Push your changes to remote

git push

Git configuration

Add global username to your git configuration

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Add global email to your git configuration

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

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.

Then 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