Cheat Sheet on Git#
Add a remote#
git remote add <remote_name> <url_repo.git>
Example:
git remote add upstream_dmlc https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost.git
Add a submodule#
git submodule add -b <branch> https://<repo>.git <local path>
Example:
git submodule add -b branchpy https://github.com/sdpython/machinelearning.git cscode/machinelearning
Checkout a specific file from a remote#
git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...
Example:
git checkout origin/master -- include\xgboost\predictor.h
Create a new local branch#
git checkout -b <new_branch>
Example:
git checkout -b modif
Create a new remote branch#
git push -u <remote> <new_branch>
Example:
git push -u upstream modif
Push modification to remote repository#
git push
Example:
git push
Remove a submodule#
git rm <localpath>
The corresponding folder in .git/modules/<localpath> must be removed too.
Example:
git rm cscode/machinelearning -f
Reset a branch#
Reset to local branch
git reset --hard <branch>
Reset to a remote branch
git reset --hard <remote>/<branch>
Example:
git reset --hard upstream/master
Reset a submodule#
git submodule foreach git reset --hard
The option --recursive does it for submodules included
in submodules. Another to do it is to remove the submodule
folder and to type git reset --hard which removes
every modification made since the last pull.
Update a branch#
git pull <remote> <branch>
Example:
git pull origin master
You can also rebase the repository:
git fetch <remote>
git rebase <remote>/<banch>
Example:
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/master
Update a submodule#
git submodule update --remote --merge
Example:
git submodule update --remote --merge
Update a submodule to the remote branch#
git submodule update --init
Example:
git submodule update --init
Option --recursive can be added to fetch
submodules inside submodules.
Fix submodules#
git submodule sync
Example:
git submodule sync
Move multiple files#
Assuming the reposity has no ongoing modification You can move files and then type right away:
git add -A
Rebase a branch to upsteam branch#
This instruction retains some part of the logs.
git pull --rebase upstream master
git push --force origin
or
git pull --rebase upstream main
git push --force origin
As it may seem that github renamed the default branch from master to *main (see Renaming the default branch from master).
Rebase a branch to upsteam branch and erase history#
git rebase upstream/master
git push -f origin master
or
git rebase upstream/main
git push -f origin main
If there are some commit of your own, they will be moved to the top of history. The following command deletes the last commit in the history.
git reset --hard HEAD~1
The remote repository needs to be updated.