Git ​

👩🏻‍💻 Commit ​

Squash all git commits into one? ​

git reset $(git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -m "Initial commit")

🎋 Branches ​

Orphan Branche ​

There's might be case where you want to start from scratch without any files and commit history. In this case, You can create orphan branch in the repo:

git checkout --orphan <newbranch>
git rm -rf .

Move uncommited changes to new branch ​

Sometimes we accidentally make changes in the main branch and we want to move those changes to a new branch. In this case, we can create a new branch and move the changes to the new branch.

git checkout -b <new-branch>

🔖 Tags ​

Remove tag ​

# Remove local tag
git tag --delete tagname

# Remove remote tag
git push --delete origin <tag-name>

Create & Push tag to remote ​

git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "v1.0.0"
git push origin v1.0.0

Change tag commit ​

# Reassign the same tag to different commit
git tag --force v1.0 <commit-sha>

# Force push the tag
git push --force --tags

🎯 Remotes ​

Push to multiple repositories with single codebase ​

This can be useful when you want to push the same codebase to multiple repositories. For example, you have a main repo and you want to push the same codebase to another repo in different organization.

You can also sync Github & GitLab repositories using this method 🤯

# 1. Clone main repo
git clone https://github.com/firstorg/myrepo.git

# 2. Add another remote
git remote set-url --add https://github.com/secondorg/myrepo.git

# 3. Verify the remotes
git remote -v # Output should have two push urls

# 4. Push to both remotes
git push --all # I guess regular git push might work as well

🧮 Misc ​

Temporarily ignore folder/file in git ​

You can use the git update-index command with the --skip-worktree option to temporarily ignore changes to a specific folder or file in a Git repository.

git update-index --skip-worktree /temp

To stop ignoring changes to the folder/file (undo above), use --no-skip-worktree option.

git update-index --no-skip-worktree /temp

Login & Store git credentials ​

When you setup a new system you might need to enter your git credentials again and again. To avoid this, you can store your git credentials in the system's credential store.

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

git config --global credential.helper store

From next whenever you enter your credentials, it will be stored in the system's credential store.

Remove git credentials ​

git config --global --unset credential.helper

Rename git tracked files ​

Never rename files using mv command or manually. Instead use git mv command to let git know about the rename.

git mv Readme.md README.md