Git cheat sheet

From Simson Garfinkel
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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

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