Git | Frequently used commands
To check for any changes in the files.
git status
View Change history and comments.
git log
To see the change history per file
git log -p
See changed files history
git log --stat
Commit the change
git commit -m "Message for commit"
To revert back a commit
git reset --soft HEAD~1
To create a clone of your local repository
git clone /.git
To create a bare clone(A clone with the .git database alone) as a central repository
git clone --bare /.git .git
To see remote branches
git remote -v
Add/remove a remote branch
git remote add .git
git remote remove
Push local changes to remote branch
git push -u
git pull
If you want to start tracking a remote branch with git status command, run below command.
git push -u
After Git pull, if you encountered below output.
There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to merge with.
See git-pull(1) for details
git pull
If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/ master
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Sherbaz@SHERBAZ-PC /s/Softwares/Open Source/linuxKernel (master)
$ git status
On branch master
Initial commit
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use “git add” to track)
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$ git branch –set-upstream-to=Origin/master master
fatal: branch ‘master’ does not exist
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$ git checkout -b master -t origin/master
error: unable to create file drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/i2c/aux.c (No s
uch file or directory)
Checking out files: 100{88dc7f9385b2c8971f38421926506de3e3fc5e843c9520f0674d4b7de6ae62da} (47503/47503), done.
D drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/i2c/aux.c
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Already on ‘master’
