Commands tagged git

If like me you do a lot of front-end coding and you have a lot of clients that asks you some little modifications, then you send the modifications back to them in a zip file while ignoring the .git folder and .gitignore file, then copy this zip into your dropbox and send it back to them. They find out a new bug so, rince and repeat? You get the picture. It can be quite tedious.

In this example we search for 'vim' but vim doesn't have a project on github right now. That's ok, this command still searches for every project that has 'vim' in their description (forks, plugins, etc). To get XML or JSON output just replace 'yaml' in the url with 'xml' or 'json'.

In this example 'git' is the user name and the output format is YAML but you can change this to XML or JSON, eg: curl http://github.com/api/v1/json/usernamehere

What was the name of that module we wrote and deleted about 3 months ago? windowing-something?

Display condensed log in a tree-like format.

This should work even if the output format changes.

List everyone who committed to a particular project, listed alphabetically. To list by commits, add -n to the shortlog.

You'll run into trouble if you have files w/ missing newlines at the end. I tried to use

and even

to force a newline at the end, but as soon as the output is redirected, git seems to ignore the pager.

Figures out total line contribution per author for an entire GIT repo. Includes binary files, which kind of mess up the true count.

If crashes or takes too long, mess with the ls-file option at the start:

git ls-files -x "*pdf" -x "*psd" -x "*tif" to remove really random binary files

git ls-files "*.py" "*.html" "*.css" to only include specific file types

Based off my original SVN version: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2787/prints-total-line-count-contribution-per-user-for-an-svn-repository

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/path/to/dir/.git/

I sometimes (due to mismanagement!) end up with files in a git repo which have had their modes changed, but not their content. This one-liner lets me revert the mode changes, while leaving changed-content files be, so I can commit just the actual changes made.

It deletes all removed files, updates what was modified, and adds new files.

Only shows files with actual changes to text (excluding whitespace). Useful if you've messed up permissions or transferred in files from windows or something like that, so that you can get a list of changed files, and clean up the rest.

Lists ONLY the files changed by the given HASH/HEAD/list of hashes, etc. The message, commit ID, author, etc. is not included

I've used technicalpickles command a lot, but this one handles whitespaces in filenames. I'm sure you want to create an alias for it :)

Print out list of all branches with last commit date to the branch, including relative time since commit and color coding.

It's pretty common to forgot to commit a files, be it a modification, or a brand new file.

If you did forget something, git add the files you want, and then git commit --amend. It will essentially redo the last commit, with the changes you just added. It seeds the commit message with the last commit message by default.

You probably shouldn't do this if you've already pushed the commit.