Basic Git Command Everyone Should Know

Lets first understand what is Git and its benefits, then we dive into its command.

Git is know as Versioning Control which plays a very important role while development of any project. We can track what, when, who, where changes are made.

Benefits

• It’s free (and open-source)
• It is faster and more reliable than any other version control software
• Security is high
• Widely used in many organization

Git Commands

1. git help

Using git –help in the command prompt will give you a list of available commands

$ git -help

2. git init

The git init command is used to initialize a new git repository or reinitialize an existing one

$ git init

3. git clone

This command is used for downloading the latest version of a remote project and copying it to the selected location on the local machine. It looks like this:

$ git clone <repository url>

4. git status

This command is used to show new file or changes which are not committed yet

$ git status

5. git pull

This command will fetch all the changes from the remote repository and merge any remote changes in the current local branch.

$ git pull

6. git commit

Git commit is used to committing your local branch changes.

$ git commit -m <"commit message">

7. git push

Git push will push the locally committed changes to the remote branch.

$ git push

8. git add

Git add is use to stage changed files. You can stage individual files:

$ git add <file path>

Or all files:

$ git add .

9. git log

This command is used to check the commit history of a repository

$ git log

9. git checkout

This command is used to switch on any other branch

$ git checkout

Or if you want to create a new branch and switch to it, then use

$ git checkout -b <branch name>

These are some basic commands which we mostly used. Hope those will help you.