I’ve been working fulltime with Git for a while now and I’ve noticed a pattern of commands that emerge every so often, but not often enough that would make me remember them.

That’s why I decided to post them here so I know where to look in the future. And of course they can turn out to be useful to someone else too.

So without further ado, here they are:

#undo last commit
git reset HEAD^

#show files in a given commit
git show --pretty="format:" --name-only rev_number

#remove untracked files and directories
git clean -f -d

#track remote branch
git branch --track branch_name origin/master

# given you created a new local branch 'branch_name'
# pushes 'branch_name' to 'origin/branch_name', creating the remote branch for you
git push origin branch_name

#delete remote branch
git push origin :remote_branch_name

I’ll keep this list up to date and add more useful stuff as need arises. Enjoy.

For those who don't know Git is a version control system developed by Linus Torvalds. It's main difference from other tools like SVN and CVS is the fact that it's distributed.

Recently I gave a workshop about Git here at the company where I walked through the most common cases I usually see when working in a team and thought about posting a summary of the commands used in the workshop.

It turns out that just this morning I found this - a.k.a the rest of my post. It's a really nice and concise Git Cheat Sheet that covers most of what I talked about  in the workshop. So I highly recommend you bookmark it. It will certainly be useful.