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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes. Show Sample Output
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```
master
testing
this-shit-works
```
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for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'

dahuie · 2012-04-07 11:19:00 7
git - create a local branch that tracks with the remote branch
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git checkout -tb mybranch origin/mybranch

dbabaioff · 2012-06-12 12:46:56 5
Top Ten of the most active committers in git repositories
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git shortlog -s | sort -rn | head

unixmonkey38011 · 2012-07-22 10:28:42 4
restoring a directory from history

Revision: HEAD
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git checkout HEAD~2 -- /path/to/dir

evandrix · 2012-09-12 03:22:13 5
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Add this line to your ~/.gitconfig for a git alias "git brd" (i.e., brd = (br)anch+(d)ate) which sorts branches by date. Allows you to pass in limited "git branch" options such as "-r" (remote) or "-a" (all). (Note: forum added "$" prefix to command; obviously in gitconfig there is no "$" prefix.) Show Sample Output
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```
$ git brd
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) master
2012-08-20 02:32:13 -0700 (6 weeks ago) feature-foo

$ git brd -r
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) origin/feature-foo
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) origin/master
2012-09-13 06:03:06 -0700 (2 weeks ago) origin/HEAD
```
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brd = "! f() { for k in $(git branch $@ | sed 's/^..//; s/ .*//'); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty='%Cgreen%ci %Cblue(%cr)%Creset ' $k) $k" ; done | sort -r; }; f"

michael_n_1138 · 2012-09-28 10:20:51 6
add a change in git that you have just checked using git diff

It's useful to run run git st before you commit changes. To see an individual commit it's good practice to type git diff . If you are happy with what you see, to add the file, just type ^diff^add
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^diff^add

binaryten · 2012-10-09 21:51:05 8
Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

This oneliner gets all the 'modified' files in your git repository, and opens all of them in vim. Very handy when you're starting to work in the morning and you simply want to review your modified files before committing them. Maybe there are better ways to do that (and maybe integrated in vim and/or git, who knows), but I found quicker to do this oneliner.
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vim `git status | grep modified | awk '{print $3}'`

TetsuyO · 2012-11-19 09:48:46 7
This little command edits your gitignore from anywhere in your repo

A little used command, but one I find very useful when needed. Note: It only works on gitignores in the top level directory.
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vim $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.gitignore

bronzehedwick · 2012-11-20 15:22:35 5
List Remote Git Branches By Author

Place in .bash_profile Show Sample Output
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```
gbl soheil


Tue Dec 4 18:01:19 2012 -0800 Soheil refs/remotes/origin/branch3
Mon Nov 26 10:55:55 2012 -0800 Soheil refs/remotes/origin/branch2
Thu Nov 15 11:44:52 2012 -0800 Soheil refs/remotes/origin/branch1
```
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48 function gbl() { git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(committerdate) %(authorname) %(refname)' refs/remotes/origin/|grep -e ".$@"|head -n 10; }

soheil · 2012-12-13 23:35:06 7
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Full output in one single git command, no pipes nor other process invocations. Will also work under cmd on Windows, with MSysGit, and can be aliased, simply add [alias] branch-rel = "for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%1B[32m%(committerdate:iso8601) %1B[34m%(committerdate:relative) %1B[0;m%(refname:short)' refs/heads/" to your .gitconfig file. Show Sample Output
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```
2013-03-11 16:31:16 +0000 4 hours ago   master
2013-02-14 11:45:28 -0600 4 weeks ago   branch1
2013-02-14 08:07:36 -0600 4 weeks ago   branch2
```
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git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format="%1B[32m%(committerdate:iso8601) %1B[34m%(committerdate:relative) %1B[0;m%(refname:short)" refs/heads/

mstormo · 2013-03-11 20:48:25 5
Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

Opens all files in the index (modified plus not added yet) in tabs in vim.
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vim -p `git --porcelain | awk {print $2}`

cnelsonsic · 2013-04-29 21:52:23 7
Print out the contents of a Git repository (useful for broken repositories)
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find .git/objects -type f -printf "%P\n" | sed s,/,, | while read object; do echo "=== $obj $(git cat-file -t $object) ==="; git cat-file -p $object; done

hamador · 2013-10-02 09:09:00 11
git diff external without additional script
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git config --global diff.external 'bash -c "meld $2 $5"'

cakyus · 2013-10-17 10:40:03 10
Get a list of all TODO/FIXME tasks left to be done in your GIT project

"git grep" automatically excludes untracked files (e.g. compiler output) and files under .git directory. If no directory or file is given, it will recursively search through the current directory.
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alias tasks='git grep -EI "TODO|FIXME"'

lizardo · 2013-10-21 23:54:46 11
Mass rename files in git

Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9984722/git-rename-many-files-and-folders
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for file in $(git ls-files | grep old_name_pattern); do git mv $file $(echo $file | sed -e 's/old_name_pattern/new_name_pattern/'); done

lpalgarvio · 2013-11-19 18:33:23 8
simple single-lined git log
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git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

cdillon · 2013-12-23 05:47:01 8
Automatically sync current git project with remote host while editing

While edtiing a project under git, it is sometimes nice to sync changes immediately to a test machine. This command will take care of this if you have inotifywait installed on the developement machine. Note the -R (relative) in rsync. with rsync foo/bar/baz user@host:dest/dir/ it will put 'baz' in dest/dir/foo/bar/ which is what we want. this can be turned into a function for additionnal flexibility : function gitwatch() { if [ -z $1 ]; then echo "You must provide a rsync destination" return fi while true; do rsync -vR $(git ls-files | inotifywait -q -e modify -e attrib -e close_write --fromfile - --format '%w') $1 done }
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while true; do rsync -vR $(git ls-files | inotifywait -q -e modify -e attrib -e close_write --fromfile - --format '%w') user@host:dest/dir/; done

leucos · 2014-01-21 10:31:41 7
Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

Works even with spaces in filenames. As an alias in .gitconfig: [alias] editchanged = "!git status --porcelain | sed -ne 's/^ M //p' | tr '\\n' '\\0' | tr -d '\"' | xargs -0 vim"
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git status --porcelain | sed -ne 's/^ M //p' | tr '\n' '\0' | tr -d '"' | xargs -0 vim

uschrisf · 2014-05-08 08:36:27 7
Git autocomplete

Downloads this raw script https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash from Github, copies it to your home directory, autoloads it in ~/.bashrc and sources it.
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash; mv git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.bash; echo "source ~/.git-completion.bash" > ~/.bashrc; source ~/.git-completion.bash

servel333 · 2014-07-22 14:21:00 21
git discard unstaged changes
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git stash save --keep-index

shadyvb · 2014-09-03 09:07:35 8
Git branches I checked-out on a specific date

Replace "Oct 2" in the first grep pattern to be the date to view branch work from Show Sample Output
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```
my_new_feature
my_second_new_feature
master
```
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git reflog --date=local | grep "Oct 2 .* checkout: moving from .* to" | grep -o "[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*$" | sort | uniq

Trindaz · 2014-10-03 15:12:22 8
Force Git to overwrite local files after fetch

git fetch --all git reset --hard origin/staging
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git reset --hard origin/master

nomikos · 2014-11-06 01:59:04 8
Create alias to quickly archive git HEAD in current directory.

This creates an alias that will do a 'git archive' command to package up the current repo into reponame-shorthash.tar.gz, in the current directory.
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alias ga='git archive --prefix=${PWD##*/}/ -o %{PWD##*/}-`git rev-parse --short HEAD`.tar.gz HEAD .'

shearn89 · 2014-11-21 15:29:54 9
Find supported dependency manager manifests

List all dependencies manifests so you can install them. In a scenario where you want to deploy a number of web applications and run their dependency managers, how could you run all of them in a systematic order. One of the complexity is to ensure you get only your own top level dependencies. That way, you don recursively call development dependencies of your own dependencies. Otherwise you might end up discovering dependency management manifests that are already been pulled by your own projects. # Using this command This command helps me find them and I can then run what?s required to pull them from their respective sources. This command assumes the following: 1. Your code checkouts are in a flat repository layout (i.e. not nested). 2. Finds manifests for: - NPM (nodejs), - Composer (php), - bower, - requirements.txt (Python), and - git submodules Show Sample Output
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```
/srv/code/component1/repo/requirements.txt
/srv/code/component2/repo/generator/package.json
/srv/code/component3/repo/package.json
/srv/code/component4/repo/mediawiki/.gitmodules
/srv/code/component5/repo/bower.json
/srv/code/component5/repo/package.json
/srv/code/component5/repo/Gemfile
/srv/code/component6/repo/generator/package.json
/srv/code/component7/repo/.gitmodules
/srv/code/component8/repo/bower.json
/srv/code/component8/repo/.gitmodules
```
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find /srv/code -maxdepth 4 -type f -regex ".*$\(package\|composer|npm\\|bower$\.json\|Gemfile\|requirements\.txt\\|\.gitmodules\)"

renoirb · 2014-11-28 16:34:35 9
Print out all unique directories of path that had a file edited within.

This is useful as a git hook to print out the directories that had files changed on a commit. Each directory is its own package. Show Sample Output
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```
foo
bar
```
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git log -n 1 --name-only --pretty=oneline | awk -F/ 'NR>=2 {seen[$1]}; END {for (d in seen); print d}'

Romster · 2014-12-13 10:21:46 9
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