Git info

• remote branches use the “main” name as default unless it was created a while ago when they changed the default name from “master” to “main”.

Store git credentials permanantly

git config --global credential.helper store

undo recent changes ( commits )

git reset --hard HEAD

NOTE : This throws away all your recent uncommited changes

Create new local branch and push to remote repo

git checkout -b <branch name>

Branch is automatically created when you push the branch to the remote server. Most times I substiute <remote-name> with “origin”

git push <remote-name> <local-branch-name>:<remote-branch-name>

WARNING: DO NOT omit the :<remote-branch-name> or the remote branch will be DELTED

Get branch name

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

Push all local branches to remote

This is handy if you aren’t sharing a repo with someone, I might use this more often than not since i’m a hobbyist with no partners on my projects. ( As of yet )

git push --all -u

Change default editor for commits

This sets the default editor to vim

git config --global core.editor vim