Basic tasks

  • Clone a repository, clone a repo in a dir:
$ git clone https://github.com/neojal/neojal.github.io.git
$ git clone https://github.com/neojal/neojal.github.io.git directory
  • Create branch and switch to it:
$ git checkout -b edition
  • Show current branch, show all branches:
$ git branch 
$ git branch -a
  • Switch to other branch, to master:
$ git checkout master
  • Show working tree status:
$ git status
  • Add contents to the index of the working tree:
$ git add file.md
$ git add .
  • Rewrite edition branch with master:
$ git checkout edition
$ git rebase master
  • Merge edition branch into master:
$ git checkout master 
$ git merge edition
  • Preserve our current changes and make rollback:
# make new branch to save current code
$ git branch current-changes

# and reset to needed commit
$ git reset --hard commit-id

Quick references: