Git pocket tutorial

My first post about git repository.

At the beginning we must initialize out repo. Let's say it have tempo name. For now we guess that repo was created on git server and we only must create a local copy on our development machine. First of all we must install git client. Further i will talk about linux console version of client. On the next step we must initialize our local repo:

1. git init
2. git add <file1> <file2> ...
3. git commit -m "init commit"
4. git remote add origin git@remoterepo.host.addr:username/path/to/tempo.git
5. git push -u origin master

General format for git remote add(4) is:

git remote add remote_name remote_location

Also we have git clone with similar format:

git clone remote_location

You can ask, what the difference between "remote add" and "close" and i answer you:

1. remote add - creates an entry in your git config and you can either push changes to remote repo
2. clone - creates new repo (local copy from remote_location). It similar to this code:

git init

git remote add origin remote_location

git pull origin master

Now let's talk about work with branches. First of all you need to create one by command:

git branch

After that you can view branches:

git branch - show your local branches

git branch -a - showing all branches including remote ones

When our new branch was founded in list - we can switch to it:

git checkout <branchname>

After work on it - we can remove it

# delete local

git branch -d <branchname>

# remote

git push origin :<branchname>

We can push changes to remote branch after committing:

git push origin <branchname>:refs/heads/<branchname>

When work on branch was finished - it can pushed to master:

git checkout master

git merge <branchname> --no-ff

git push origin master - push master branch to remote repo

If you need update code from remote repo:

git remote update; - update all remote repos

git pull <remoterepo> <local>