Git Basics

There are tons of tutorials out there, I am posting the snippets that i found very useful from this excellent rails tutorial.

1. Global configurations (these can be seen via the git config --list)
1. git config --global user.name "Your Name"
2. git config --global user.email youremail@example.com
3. git config --global alias.co checkout
4. git config --global core.editor "mate -w"
2. Initializing a new project / first time repository setup
   
   1. git init
3. Enhanced .gitignore file
   
.bundle
db/*.sqlite3*
log/*.log
*.log
tmp/**/*
tmp/*
doc/api
doc/app
*.swp
*~
.DS_Store

   
4. Adding files (this is a recursive command), committing with a message (messages are mandatory), and seeing the log, and the various branches
   
   1. git add .
   2. git commit -m 'message'
   3. git log
   4. git branch
5. To see pending commits, checkout, checkout to an existing branch, checkout to a new branch, checkin, merge a branch to the current branch, delete a branch
   
   1. git status
   2. git checkout
   3. git checkout 'existing branch name'
   4. git checkout -b 'new branch name'
   5. git checkin -a -m'message'
   6. git merge 'branch name'
   7. git branch -d 'branch name'
6. Adding to github (these commands are displayed when I create a new repo on github)
   
   1. git remote add origin git@github.com:akil-rails/opac_app.git
   2. git push origin master