Features to be added to the git commands section.

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• Plumbing and porcelian commands
• To show commit SHA1 of HEAD git rev-parse HEAD
• git gc --aggressive commands.
• Git LFS (large file system)
  • Conditions for large files on GitHub
  • Storage and Bandwidth Usage
  • Atlassian Git LFS overview (Also, the video at end of this article is a good watch.)
  • Official Git LFS page
  • Migrate history to or from Git LFS
  • Alternative way: Split files into multipart zip archive, then either use a Git Hook or a prebuild step to combine and unzip the files.
• Removing Accidentally Committed Files From Remote History

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• git rebase
  • Short guide
  • Add git pull --rebase to git pull and reference it in git rebase. (Optional reference)
  • Merging vs Rebasing
  • git rebase --continue (--quit and --abort)
• Patches
  • Create a patch file from git diff
  • Creating and applying a patch
  • If the patch is a commit, then just run git am file.diff.
  • If the patch is not a commit, then run git apply file.diff and then git am file.diff.
  • .diff can be .patch as well.
  • Decoding a patch in base64 format

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Add all info from the following articles:

• https://medium.com/mindorks/what-is-git-commit-push-pull-log-aliases-fetch-config-clone-56bc52a3601c
• https://dev.to/lydiahallie/cs-visualized-useful-git-commands-37p1

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Under the git command in this section, add:

• git version
• Git update command

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• Atlassian article on Git submodules

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• git revert
• git restore
  • General details
  • -s flag
• git reset (+ add commands from Addition of command to revert the last commit #75, although it is meant for Features to be added to 'Correcting Common Mistakes' section. #10)

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• Under git commit, add the -s (--signoff) flag.
  • Article # 1
  • Article # 2
  • Check out DCO in relation to -s

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• Add the git cherry-pick command.

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• Under git checkout, add the --orphan flag.
  • Ref article
  • Add the flag, give an explanation on what is does and its need.
  • git rm -rf or git reset --hard might be required (beware of the file not in .gitignore though.) (source)

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• Under the --amend flag in git commit, add the --no-edit option.
  • Explain that files can be forgotten to be committed or be committed by mistake & add the two cases of amending a commit (to change the commit msg/descp and/or add/remove a file) to the common mistakes and how to solve them (Features to be added to 'Correcting Common Mistakes' section. #10) sub-section.
• git commit --no-value option
• Add --author "Full Name <[email protected]>" option to git commit.

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• Add a --staged flag to the git diff command.
• Add the git mv command.

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• Co-authored commits
  • (I had to use a text editor to write the commit msg as pressing the enter key in cmd executes the command.)
  • https://github.blog/2018-01-29-commit-together-with-co-authors/
  • https://medium.com/blackode/creating-co-authored-commits-on-the-command-line-git-305ae2af9f73

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• Add set-url option to git remote
  • https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-remote

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• git shortlog
  • Add details on git shortlog from this as well: https://github.blog/2020-10-19-git-2-29-released/

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• Contextual git push and git pull. (Find context using git branch.)
  • Executing just git push instead of git push origin main to push code to the main branch.
  • Might not work the first time as the upstream is not set. Use git push -u origin main the first time.

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• Add git config --global init.defaultBranch <branch_name> to the git config sub-section.
  • This is to combat the new default main branch on GitHub.
  • Add note that this is only for GitHub and might cause problems with other services like GitLab.
  • Refer to this comment of issue replace master by main. #47.

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• From image below make the following changes to the git branch sub-section:
  • Make necessary changes to -m option in web site.
    • Check if what already exists is correct and accordingly make changes.
  • Add -u flag.
  • Add references to the branch renaming section if necessary. (The section is supposed to be added as per a comment in issue Add Branches section. #21.)

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• Add git reflog documentation
  • Write about force pushing (Add note: changes history and can cause a lot of problems)

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• Add commands from issue Addition of new commands #70.
• Add git fsck

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• Add --author="<regular_exp>" to git log (Ref article)
• Add pretty formats to <?>
  • Can be used by multiple commands?
  • Eg: git log --pretty="format: %h %aN"
  • A pretty format list can be found in Atlessian's git show article as well.
• git format-patch

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• Add the -A option to git commit and note the difference between -a and -A.
  • 10 Must Know Git Commands That Almost Nobody Knows

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• Add directory option to git clone.
  • Eg: git clone <url>.git <dir_to_clone_into> or git clone <url>.git . (Same directory, will not create a new directory to put the files in.)

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• Changing the default Git editor.
  • git config --global core.editor "<editor_name>"
  • VS Code: git config --global core.editor "code --wait" (Article)
  • Others: (Article)

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• Add info about git tag.
  • Pushing a tag to a remote repository
  • Deleting Local and Remote Tags
  • Git Tag Explained: How to List, Create, Remove, and Show Tags in Git (esp add git show - add next point first)
• Add git show

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• Add git add -p

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• Add 'Push Empty Git Commits' #85

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• Merge conflicts: Merge conflicts #94

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• Multiple Branches in Git (git worktree)

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• Bare Git repositories
  • What is a bare repository and why would I need one?
  • all about "bare" repos -- what, why, and how to fix a non-bare push
  • What's the -practical- difference between a Bare and non-Bare repository?