Common Git Commands

 

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Take clone of a repository

git clone <remote-repository-url>

ex: git clone https://github.com/agricor/RegTech.UI.git

 

Create a branch

The branch should always be created from dev branch, for that you need to first checkout to dev branch by the following command

• git checkout dev
• git pull origin dev

then create the branch

• git checkout -b <branch-name>

ex: git checkout -b feature/regtech-533

Here feature notifies that this branch is created for a feature. Similarly for creating a branch for a bug the branch name will be like bug/regtech-113

 

To see the current branch

git branch

 

To see all the branches in a repository

git branch -a

 

Pull from a branch

git pull <branch-name>

git pull origin feature/regtech-533

 

To see the status

git status

 

To see the differences made

git diff

 

staging a file or folder

git add <file or folder name>

ex: git add index.ts

 

committing the changes

git commit -m "message"

ex: git commit -m "Changes made for feature regtech-533"

 

To push the code to repository

git push origin <branch-name>

ex: git push origin feature/regtech-533

 

For Creating a pull request

After pushing the code to the repository

go to github.com repository page

Click on the contribute button below the code and press the open pull request button