[Git] Git Basics

Git Basics

• Essential commands
• Fixing previous commit

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Essential commands

• Do not make a git repository inside a nested subfolder

# check
git status

# create a new git repository 
git init

# add to working stage
git add . # add all files
git add file1.txt file2.txt

# add to repository
git commit

# add to working stage and to repositroy in one go
git commit -a

# get history of commits
git log
git log --oneline

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Fixing previous commit

• Only available on the previous commit
• Useful when adding a file that should have been included or fixing the commit messsage

git commit --amend

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