Various git tips

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store git password in a local file

git config --global credential.helper store

by default, password are stored in $HOME/.git-credentials

disable any credential helper

git config --system --unset credential.helper

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git_beautiful_log.md

see git log in color with graphs

git log --graph --oneline --all --decorate

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git_branch-update.md

get all remote branch (except HEAD) intto a local branch

git fetch --all
for remote in $(git branch -r | grep -v '/HEAD'); do
  branch=${remote#origin/}
  git branch --track "$branch" "$remote" 2>/dev/null
done

update all local branch from remote

for b in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/); do
  git checkout "$b" && git pull --ff-only
done
git checkout -

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git_compress_commit.md

Compress N last commits into one

Delete 4 last commits from git history, replace them with only one commit, and push this new history to git server
```
git reset --soft HEAD~4
```

Create only one commit with the changes of previous deleted commits

git add .
git commit -m "one commit with content of 4 deleted commit"

Push this new history to git server
```
git push --force -u origin main
```

Compress all commit history into one

Create a new branch with the content of all changes in git history into only one commit
```
git branch new_branch $(echo "init message" | git commit-tree HEAD^{tree})
```
Push this new history to git server and replace the main branch
```
git push --force -u origin new_branch:main
```

Delete new branch and replace main branch history with the new one

git branch -d new_branch
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/main