Git for Powercoders

Usage: This is your work sheet. Change it in any way you want (as long as you can answer the goals), add any notes that help you personally to remember tomorrow and also the days after tomorrow.

This is a Markdown file which many servers, like GitHub too, format nicely as HTML.

My Notes about Git

Creating a repository

Goal: I know how to create a local Git repository.

What does Git do when initialising a local repository?

• Your answer here

Saving my changes

Goal: I can explain what “workspace”, “staging area”, and “local repository” are.

Goal: I can explain what a “commit” is.

I want to remember:

• (New stuff you learned)

So, what did change?

Goal: I know how to show the current (workspace and staged) changes.

Goal: I can undo changes in the workspace and in the staging area.

Adding features on branches

Goal: I understand when branches are used and how they are merged back.

Goal: I know how to find help about a command

I have the following branches:

Some conflicts need resolving

Goal: I am able to resolve merge conflicts.

Goal: I can simplify the history by rebasing.

Stash and Remote

Goal: I know how to temporarily undo my changes.

Goal: I can push my changes to a remote.

When to commit/branch?

Goal: I know when it makes sense to create a commit or a branch.

Oh vi*!

• Very modern vim cheat sheet

Most important commands for me:

• (Your text here)

Command line, Git Bash

Show current directory

pwd

Change to subdirectory and back to parent

cd subdir
cd ..

List files in current directory

ls -lah

References

• git help <command>
• Explain Git with D3 shows nicely animated graphs for Git commands
• Git Cheatsheet is a nice cheatsheet with all the areas and operations in Git
• no deep shit but a good summary
• Pro Git if you are really serious (or curious)