Cheat sheet for GitHub commands

Top Git commands to use in gitbash

git status

gitstatus is used to check whether the current folder has git instance or not

git status

git init

git init command is used to initialize the git in the current folder

git init

git config

git config is used to configure the git account
git config --global user.name <your name>
git config --global user.email <your email>

git add

git add is used to add the remote files to the github repository

git remote add origin https://github.com/Anushadokuparthi/testing.git

git commit

git commit is used to save all the local changes in your working repository. On important note with every commit it is mandatory to add the commit message which is relevant to thechanges

git commit -m "first commit"

git push

git push is used to the committed changes to the git repository

git push -u origin main

git pull

git pull is used to pull the latest changes from the master repository

git pull local

git log

git log is used to see the previous commit changes, merge changes and pushe history of the repository

git log
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