Essential git CLI commands

Frequently used commands:

git init # initializes.
git add . # adds all files
git add <file 1> <filel 2> # adds individual file.
git commit -m "descriptive message." # commits
git branch <branch name> # creates a new branch
git checkout <branch name> # checkouts to a branch
git branch -n <branch name> # creates new branch and checkouts
git merge <branch_name> # checkout to the main branch, then merge
git checkout main/master && git merge <current branch> # merging from being in the branch to be merged.
git pull origin <branch_name> # pull
git push origin <branch_name> # push to web repository.
git branch -d <branch_name> # removing a branch.
git status # check status.
``git remote set-url` # To rename your local Git repository to match the name of the remote repository,
git rm --cached .env # If the .env file was already tracked by Git before, you’ll need to remove it from the index, and do the following:
- git add .gitignore git commit -m "Add .env to .gitignore" git push
git branch # to see local branches.
git fetch # before listing remote branch, run this.
git branch -r # to see all remote branches.
git branch -a # to see both.
git branch -vv # to see both in detail or.
git branch -vva # to see both in detail.
git checkout - # to checkout last branch.
git branch -m <new name> # to rename current branch
git branch -m old-branch-name new-branch-name # to rename a branch.
git push origin -u new-branch-name # push the new branch to remote

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