Git Basics

You typically obtain a Git repository in one of two ways: You can take a local directory th...

At this point, you should have a bona fide Git repository on your local machine, and a checkout o...

The main tool you use to determine which files are in which state is the git status command. If y...

Often, you’ll have a class of files that you don’t want Git to automatically add or even show you...

If the git status command is too vague for you — you want to know exactly what you changed, not j...

Now that your staging area is set up the way you want it, you can commit your changes. Remember t...

Although it can be amazingly useful for crafting commits exactly how you want them, the staging a...

To remove a file from Git, you have to remove it from your tracked files (more accurately, remove...

Unlike many other VCS systems, Git doesn’t explicitly track file movement. If you rename a file i...

After you have created several commits, or if you have cloned a repository with an existing commi...

In addition to output-formatting options, git log takes a number of useful limiting options; that...

At any stage, you may want to undo something. Here, we’ll review a few basic tools for undoing ch...

The next two sections demonstrate how to work with your staging area and working directory change...

What if you realize that you don’t want to keep your changes to the CONTRIBUTING.md file? How can...

To be able to collaborate on any Git project, you need to know how to manage your remote reposito...

To see which remote servers you have configured, you can run the git remote command. It lists the...

We’ve mentioned and given some demonstrations of how the git clone command implicitly adds the or...

As you just saw, to get data from your remote projects, you can run: $ git fetch <remote&...

When you have your project at a point that you want to share, you have to push it upstream. The c...

If you want to see more information about a particular remote, you can use the git remote show &l...

You can run git remote rename to change a remote’s shortname. For instance, if you want to rename...