Getting started with GIT on the Command Line

Coming from an SVN versioning system to GIT has been a long strange trip; at first, SVN commands made more sense, like checkout and update, but then when you think about it, they're backward.

Whereas with Git, I'm noticing it's more like *nix CLI commands to deal with files, commits, etc.

Remove a file

#Note pass -r for recursive to remove folder
#Note pass -f to force removal, you can combine these like -rf
git rm filename

Rename / Move a file

git mv filename

Add File or Files for Commit

## Add all files 
git add ./ 

## Add just filenames
git add filename

Commit with message

git commit -m "Useful message"

# Better commit but know your editor it normally opens VIM, NANO, or whatever you setup as EDITOR 
# in your .bashrc or .zshrc
git commit

Pull From Server

# Pulls the currently tracked branch
git pull

Change Branch and Pull From Server

#example git checkout -b < new_branch > origin/< new_branch >
git checkout -b newbranch origin/newbranch

Push to the server, replace master with branch


    git push origin master
    git push remote branch

Switch branches


    git checkout branchname

Create a tag


  git tag tagname
  git push origin :refs/tags/tagname

Push a tag


git push --tags

Delete a tag


    git tag -d tagname
    git push origin :refs/tags/tagname

Adding Remote Repo


     git remote add **alias** **url**

    #Example
     git remote add upstream git://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git
     git fetch upstream
     git merge upstream/develop

There's more, but that'll do for this post.

Highly suggest learning git-flow