Git cheat sheet

Make a signed tag and push to github

 git tag -u 'Simson L. Garfinkel <simsong@acm.org>' -s tcpflow-1.2.7 -m 'Release 1.2.7'
 git push --tags

Pull changes

From a forked repository's upstream. First we need to add 'upstream' as a name for a remote URL:

 git remote add upstream https://github.com/<<FOOBAR>>

Now we need to fetch the changes and merge them in:

 git fetch upstream        # fetches any new changes from original repository
 git merge upstream/master  # merges any changes fetched into your working files

This can be done as a single operation:

 git pull upstream/master

If there are local changes:

• Resolve the conflicts
• Note which conflicts you have resolved with git add conflictname.
• commit your changes
• push them to your origin/master:

 git push 

Differencing

  git diff HEAD  # should never produce output because HEAD is always the checked out commit
  git diff origin/master # Difference between you and the master
  git log origin/master  # Report what the differences are

References

• http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html
• http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/quot-secret-key-not-available-quot-quot-unable-to-sign-the-tag-quot-td1500685.html
• https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo