Git becomes de facto of source code management (SCM) system among developers.
Many developers used to work on git from console. Mostly used commands are
git status, git add, git commit and git push.
Apart from these commands, there are lot of useful commands in git. Initial days, I find difficulties in tracking changes made by me and my team mates couple of days or few weeks ago. Here we will see some of commands that are interesting and useful to your workflow.
1. Short status output
git status is mostly used command in Git. But it gives lot of
information which is not useful for people who are proficient with git.
If you are one among them, then use
git status -sb
2. View changes by revision
If you want to view changes made at particular revision
git show <revision>
git show df2edcd
(or)
git show HEAD #HEAD means latest commit
(or)
git show HEAD~1 #HEAD~1 means commit before the commit that HEAD currently points at
In case, you want to view only changed file name, not the contents, Use --name-only option
git show --name-only df2edcd
(or)
git show --name-only --oneline df2edcd
(or)
git show --name-only --pretty="format:" df2edcd
3. View changes of specific file
If you want to view changes of specific file, then
git show df2edcd:app/index.html
(or)
git show HEAD~1:app/index.html
git show @{22-09-2014}:app/index.html
4. Search for commit message
You want to search a commit which message matches a regex
git show :/fixed
# shows the last commit which has the word "fixed" in its message
git show :/analytics
# shows the last commit which has the word "analytics" in its message
5. list all files that were modified or added in this time
List all files added/modified 9 days ago
git diff "@{9 days ago}"
git diff --name-only "@{9 days ago}"
git diff --name-status "@{9 days ago}"
List all files added/modified between 9 days ago and 6 days ago
git diff "@{9 days ago}" "@{6 days ago}"
git diff --name-only "@{9 days ago}" "@{6 days ago}"
git diff --name-status "@{9 days ago}" "@{6 days ago}"
6. Changes between two commit revision
List all files between two commits adab4ab and 6da161b
git diff adab4ab^ 6da161b
git diff --name-only adab4ab^ 6da161b
git diff --name-status adab4ab^ 6da161b
Hope it useful. Share your favorite commands in comments. Happy commit and have a nice day.
