Git Cheat Sheet

A. To List your local branchs :

•   git branch

B. How to get or fetch a remote  Branch 
   You first need to fetch and check out the remote branc

•    git fetch remote remote_branch_name (eg :  git fetch origin story2525/mytest_remote_branch)
• git checkout remote_branch_name

C. How to delete a  Branch both locally and remotely:  

1. Delete the  remote branch   

•   git push origin :branch_name or
•   git push origin --delete branch_name

2. Delete a local branch

•   git branch -d branch_name   (use -D if your branch hasn't been fully merge yet)         

D. How to rename your remote Branch : 

1. Rename branch locally

• git branch -m old_branch new_branch

2. Delete the old remote branch   

•   git push origin :old_branch            

3.  Push the new Branch  and update the upstream to point it to the new remote branch.

•  git push --set-upstream origin new_branch

E. Git Logs :

git log --oneline | grep searchString

git log --pretty=format:"%cn committed %h on %cd"| grep searchString

F. Force Push :

 git push origin refactor/mybranch —force

G: Change the remote

git remote set-url origin <>


H. Ammend message for a committed and pushed changes

 git commit --amend 
To push the changes to the branch (myBranch) on the remote repository (origin) use: 
git push --force-with-lease origin myBranch

H. Reset your branch to origin version, revert all your local commit and changes.
Plese stash your changes before you do it. git stash

git reset --hard origin/yourbranch

 I. undo the last commit and unstage all the files:

git reset HEAD~;

j. Undo the commit and completely remove all changes(Becareful !)


git reset --hard HEAD~;

K. Undo previous merge:
check the previous log :
git log
Then revert back the merge  corresponding to the commit hash
 git revert -m 1
And finally push your changes:
git push

L. Roll Back your git push

git push -f origin last_good_commit_hash:yourbranch

 example : git push -f origin 4d875f7e3e8:develop