Explain Basic Git Commands

git config

$ git config --global user.name "AMD"
$ git config --global user.email "amd@gmail.com"


$ git config --global credential.username "abdulmohammad11"     

// Name should be gir username -- This command for global config 

$ git config  credential.username "abdulmohammad11" 

// Name should be gir username -- This command with in folder 

$ git config –list

this command shows the all configurated list

User.name=AMD
User.email=amd@gmail.com

git init

init command turn Dir into local Repo

$ git init

git status

Put and write some code/data inside the file and come out by

$ git status

it’s in green color means added staging area

it’s in red color means not added yet staging area

git add

Add command to add the created file to the staging area

$ git add .

git commit

$ git commit -m “first commit from git local”             (m=message)

Now commit data from the staging area to the local repo

 → Store changes in the repository you will get one commit – ID

 → It has 40 alpha-numeric characters.

 → It uses  SHA – 1 Checksum Concept.

 → Even if you change one dot, Commit – ID will get Change

 → It actually helps you to track the changes.

→ Commit is also named as SHA1 hash.

git log

$ git log 

to check what commits had done when and who did?

You will see commit Id like 12345678KD458F4lW3E4.Author, Mail id, Date, Time, message

git show

$ git show <commit-id>

show command the content of commit ID

If we run the git commit command again it will show nothing to commit, working tree clean means data has been committed.

git remote

If want to send this code to my central repository, I have to connect the local repo to the central repo first, for this action I have to create a new repository (any name) and paste the URL of the git repo and execute a command as given below

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/abdmohammad/gitLearing.git

git pull

Now local repo has been connected to the central repo, for Pulling data to the central repo, execute this command

$ git pull -u origin master

you can execute without -u as well

Now you can see it has pulled all data/code from remote directory central repo, all details and commits has been done by other Machine,

git push

Now local repo has been connected to the central repo, for pushing data to central repo execute this command

$ git push -u origin master

push command local repo to central repo

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