learngit - covers absolute basics for everyone

This git repository will cover git basic commands and workflows.

Initializing a Local git Repository

To initialize a local git repository, run the command git init.

13:58:36 ❯ mkdir sample
13:58:39 ❯ git init .
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
hint:
hint:   git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint:
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint:
hint:   git branch -m <name>
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/sample/.git/
praveen on atom-lab-6 in sample on  master
drwxrwxr-x  3 praveen praveen 4.0K Aug  2 13:58 .
drwxrwxrwt 16 root    root    372K Aug  2 13:58 ..
drwxrwxr-x  7 praveen praveen 4.0K Aug  2 13:58 .git

Create a Local branch

To create a local branch, run the command git checkout -b <branch-name>

ravi in ins15-pp24-ru11 in learngit on  main
❯ git checkout -b add-branch-command
Switched to a new branch 'add-branch-command'

Stash your dirty file

To stash your dirty files, run the command git stash

To recover your files, run the command git stash pop

To list the current stashed changes, run the command git stash list