Git Cheat Sheet

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

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git config --global core.editor "code --wait"

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

git config --global pull.rebase true

git config --global rerere.enabled true

git config --global alias.st status

git config --global --add safe.directory /path/to/repo

git config --list --show-origin

git help config

git init

git init --bare repo.git

git clone https://github.com/owner/repo.git

git clone --branch main --single-branch https://github.com/owner/repo.git

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owner/repo.git

git clone --filter=blob:none https://github.com/owner/repo.git

git rev-parse --show-toplevel

git archive --format=tar HEAD > repo.tar

git archive --format=zip --prefix=repo/ HEAD > repo.zip

git status --short

git status -sb

git add path/to/file

git add -A

git add -p

git restore path/to/file

git restore --staged path/to/file

git rm path/to/file

git rm --cached path/to/file

git mv old-name new-name

git commit -m "Describe your change"

git commit -am "Commit message"

git commit --amend --no-edit

git commit --fixup=<commit_sha>

git commit --allow-empty -m "Trigger pipeline"

git branch -a

git branch -vv

git branch feature/my-change

git switch -c feature/my-change

git switch main

git checkout <commit_sha>

git branch -m new-branch-name

git branch -d feature/my-change

git branch -D feature/my-change

git merge-base main feature/my-change

git remote -v

git remote add origin https://github.com/owner/repo.git

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:owner/repo.git

git fetch origin

git fetch --all --prune

git pull --rebase

git push -u origin feature/my-change

git push --force-with-lease

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main

git remote prune origin

git ls-remote --heads origin

git merge --no-ff feature/my-change

git merge --squash feature/my-change

git merge --abort

git rebase main

git rebase -i HEAD~10

git rebase -i --autosquash main

git rebase --continue

git rebase --abort

git cherry-pick <commit_sha>

git cherry-pick A^..B

git cherry -v origin/main

git rerere status

git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all

git log -- path/to/file

git log --stat

git show <commit_sha>

git diff

git diff --staged

git diff main..feature/my-change

git blame path/to/file

git grep "search text"

git shortlog -sn

git describe --tags

git stash push -m "WIP"

git stash push -u -m "WIP with untracked"

git stash list

git stash show -p stash@{0}

git stash apply stash@{0}

git stash pop

git stash drop stash@{0}

git stash branch fixup stash@{0}

git clean -nd

git clean -fd

git clean -fdX

git tag

git tag -a v1.2.0 -m "Release v1.2.0"

git tag -s v1.2.0 -m "Signed release v1.2.0"

git show v1.2.0

git push origin v1.2.0

git push origin --tags

git tag -d v1.2.0

git push origin :refs/tags/v1.2.0

git reset --soft HEAD~1

git reset --mixed HEAD~1

git reset --hard HEAD~1

git reset HEAD path/to/file

git revert <commit_sha>

git revert --no-commit A^..B

git reflog

git reset --hard HEAD@{1}

git fsck --lost-found

git checkout --orphan gh-pages

git worktree list

git worktree add ../repo-feature feature/my-change

git worktree add -b fix/login ../repo-fix main

git worktree remove ../repo-feature

git submodule add https://github.com/org/lib.git vendor/lib

git submodule update --init --recursive

git submodule status --recursive

git sparse-checkout init --cone

git sparse-checkout set src docs

git sparse-checkout disable

git log --author="Alice"

git log --grep="fix login"

git log --since="2026-01-01"

git log -S "FeatureFlag" -- source/file.ts

git log -G "useFeature\(" -- "*.ts"

git rev-list --count HEAD

git name-rev --name-only <commit_sha>

git range-diff origin/main...v1 origin/main...v2

git bundle create repo.bundle --all

git bundle verify repo.bundle

git clone repo.bundle repo-from-bundle

git bisect start

git bisect bad

git bisect good v1.0.0

git bisect run ./test-script.sh

git bisect reset

git gc --aggressive

git maintenance run

git clone --mirror git@github.com:owner/repo.git

git remote update

git update-server-info

touch .git/git-daemon-export-ok

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main