Shows current version of Git installed

git --version

Remove new files from staging area

git rm --cached new.file

Adds all modified and new .html files to staging area (except deleted ones)

git add *.html

Adds all types of files with name

index

(except deleted index.* files)

git add index.*

Clears previous console info

also works on windows PowerShell

Removes

index.html

file from staging area

git restore --staged index.html

Removes all files from staging area

git restore --staged .

Alternative command is:

git reset HEAD index.html  /  git reset HEAD .

Files or folders that we don't want to include, should be inside

.gitignore

file. For example, if we don't want to include any .txt files, any files inside /docs directory, and also any .html files inside /dir, then the file will contain:

*.txt
/docs
/dir/*.html

Lists all local branches. Current branch is highlighted (with green color)

git branch

Lists all remote branches

git branch -r

Lists all local and remote branches

git branch -a

Creates new branch

login

to work on login functionality on the branch

git branch login

Shows branches that are merged already

git branch --merged

Deletes the

login

branch

git branch -d login

Deletes the

login

branch (with force mode, which means - the branch will be deleted, even if it's not fully merged

git branch -D login

Merge

login

branch into

master

git merge login

Note:

we must be on master branch if we want some other branch to merge on it

-u

flag adds a tracking reference to the upstream server that we are pushing to. This lets us do a

git push

without specifying other arguments. For example, once we do a

git push -u origin master

, we can later run

git push

and git will know that we meant

git push origin master