Some useful Git commands and resources

Git Cheat Sheets

• "Hithub Cheat Sheets": http://help.github.com/git-cheat-sheets/
• "Diagram": http://byte.kde.org/~zrusin/git/git-cheat-sheet-medium.png
• "Interactive Page for Commands Workflow": http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html#loc=local_repo;
• "List of Commands & Tips": http://www.git-tower.com/files/cheatsheet/Git_Cheat_Sheet_grey.pdf

Enable GIT colors commands

• git config --global color.diff auto
• git config --global color.status auto
• git config --global color.branch auto
• git config color.interactive auto
• Or, you can set all of them on with the color.ui option:

• git config color.ui true

• from: http://book.git-scm.com/5_customizing_git.html

Creating & pushing new branch

• First, you must create your branch locally

• git checkout -b your_branch

• push the branch to the remote repository origin and tracks it

• git push -u origin your_branch

listing all files in a commit:

$ git show --pretty="format:" --name-only bd61ad98

Restoring a deleted file in a Git repo:

git checkout $(git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- "$file")^ -- "$file"