• Get a clean local copy of my GitHub repository with read & write access: 

    1$ git clone [email protected]:kdeldycke/scripts.git

  • Switch to another branch: 

    1$ git checkout another_branch

  • Set the current repository in the state it was at commit 1234567 : 

    1$ git checkout 1234567

  • Get the current commit number: 

    1$ git rev-parse HEAD

  • Get a sorted list of all commit IDs: 

    1$ git rev-list --all --pretty=oneline | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort

  • Print a nice graph of your commits sorted by date: 

    1$ git log --graph --all --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --date-order

  • Revert a particular commit: 

    1$ git revert 119ff8

  • Destroy all your local changes and get back a sane repository: 

    1$ git reset --hard

  • Send local repository modifications to remote one: 

    1$ git push origin

  • Attach a tag to a given commit: 

    1$ git tag "1.2.3" 8fe2934d1552c97246836987f0ea08e10ba749ae

  • Publish all tags to the remote repository: 

    1$ git push --tags

  • Add a remote repository located on GitHub as a submodule in the ./folder/project-copy folder: 

    1$ git submodule add https://github.com/my-id/project.git ./folder/project-copy

  • While playing with backups of a local repository, you may encounter this error: 

    Cannot rewrite branch(es) with a dirty working directory.

    In this case, you can get back a clean repository by removing all the unstaged changes: 

    1$ git stash

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