Git Command Cheat Sheet

Browse and search all essential Git commands. Click any command to copy it to your clipboard.

How It Works

Git is a distributed version control system that tracks changes in source code during software development. It allows multiple developers to work on a project simultaneously, maintaining a complete history of every change.

Core Concepts

Working Directory: Your local files where you make changes
Staging Area (Index): A snapshot of changes ready to be committed
Repository: The .git directory storing the complete project history
Remote: A shared repository hosted on a server (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)

Typical Workflow

git clone or git init to start a repository
Make changes to files in your working directory
git add to stage changes for the next commit
git commit to save staged changes to local history
git push to share commits with a remote repository
git pull to fetch and merge changes from others

Branching Strategy

Branches allow parallel development without affecting the main codebase. Common patterns include feature branches, release branches, and hotfix branches. Use git branch to create, git checkout or git switch to navigate, and git merge or git rebase to integrate changes.

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