Useful Git Commands

git-commands.txt

# Stages all uncommited files to local
git add -A 

# Adds a commit message to the local staged files
git commit -m "Commit message" 

# Pushes the locally staged files to the remote repo
git push origin 

# Cleans up local branches from the remote
git fetch origin --prune 

# Set the global git user name. Remove global to apply to a local repo
git config --global user.name "Mona Lisa"

# Set the global git email address. Remote global to apply to a local repo.
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

# Stores the current branch changes
git stash 

# Shows a list of stashed changes
git stash list 

# Returns the stashed changes to the codebase
git stash apply 

# Exports a repo to a zip file, stripping out all git related files)
git archive --format zip --output /full/path/to/zipfile.zip master 

# Pushed your repo to another repository (ideally a blank one)
git push --mirror https://url.ofyour.otherrepo

# Merge Project A into Project B
cd path/to/project-b (On local file system)
git remote add project-a path/to/project-a (Use git clone URL)
git fetch project-a --tags
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories project-a/master # or whichever branch you want to merge
git remote remove project-a