• cd - change directory
• mkdir - make a new directory
• ls or dir - list directory contents
• rm or del - delete one or more files

$ mkdir my-repo
$ cd my-repo

For grabbing a remote repo

$ git clone https://github.com/BroVic/my-repo.git
Cloning into 'my-repo'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 3 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
$

Check the current status of a git repo

$ git status
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

• Provide personal settings so that Git knows who you are.
• Obligatory with fresh installations

To check

$ git config --get user.name
$ git config --get user.email

To set

$ git config --global user.name "User Gitter"
$ git config --global user.email "user.gitter@myemail.com"

To initialize or create a Git repo (locally)

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/Admn/Documents/project/my-repo/.git/
$ git status
On branch master

Initial commit

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)

Related to working with the remote repo

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/BroVic/my-repo.git

To check the remote repo

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/BroVic/my-repo.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/BroVic/my-repo.git (push)

After committing changes, you can push them to a remote repo.

$ git push origin master

To work with branches

$ git branch
* master
$ git branch dev
$ git branch
  dev
* master

To change to another branch use the checkout option

$ git checkout dev
Switched to branch 'dev'
$ git branch
* dev
  master

This is a 2-in-1 operation

• git fetch
• git merge

Let’s say we made a change on the remote repo…
Check if you want to include locally (Good practice!)

$ git fetch origin master
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From https://github.com/BroVic/my-repo
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
   f8ee478..2bdf16e  master     -> origin/master

Use git diff to check the changes

If satisfied with changes, do a git merge

$ git merge
Updating f8ee478..2bdf16e
Fast-forward
 index.html | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

$ git help
usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
           [-p | --paginate | --no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
           <command> [<args>]

These are common Git commands used in various situations:

start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
   clone      Clone a repository into a new directory
   ...
   ...

To find help for a given command, do `git help and a manual page will open in your console or browser

$ git help clone
Launching default browser to display HTML ...