Commands for in terminal/cmd

A collection of terminal commands of Linux and windows that are related to github

Linux commands

change directory:

$cd [the path of the directory]

check the contents of a directory:

$ls [-a][-l]

create a directory:

$mkdir [name of the directory]

delete a file/directory:

$rm [file_name]

For those Windows guys

todo:

github.ghproxy.topmands

Here is the github structure:

Copy the repository from the remote to the local:

$git clone [url][name of local directory(optional)]

Operations for the remote:

$git remote
$git remote show [name of the remote]
$git remote add [name of the remote] [url]
$git remote rm [name of the remote]
$git remote rename [old name of the remote] [new name of the remote]

Fetch branches and/or tags from one or more other repositories, along with the objects necessary to complete their histories.

$git fetch [name of the remote] [name of the branch(optimal)]

Pull back the updates of the branches from the remote, then merge them with the local branches.

$git pull [name of the remote][name of the branch on remote]:[name of the local branch]

Example1: pull back the branch1 on the remote named origin to local and merge it with a local branch named branch2

$git pull origin branch1:branch2 

Example2: pull back the branch1 on the remote named origin to local and merge it with the current branch

$git pull origin branch1

Upload the updates of local branch to the remote.

$git push [name of the remote][name of the local branch]:[name of the remote branch] 

Upload the updates of local branch to the remote branch whose name is same to the local branch.

$git push [name of the remote][name of the local branch]

Change the current working branch

$git checkout [name of the branch]

Create a local branch and then change to that branch

$git checkout [-b] [name of the branch]

Create a new local branch

$git branch [name of the new branch]

To show the existing branches

$git branch
$git branch -r # show the remote branch
$git branch -a # show all branch (i.e., local + remote)

To show the changes in the current branch

$git status

To add the change into Index

$git add [name of the changed file]

Add all the changes

$git add .
$git add * 

To commit to the changes into repository

$git commit [-a][m] "some message about the changes"

To merge the current branch with another branch

$git merge [name of another branch]

To initialize the local directory for github

$cd [the directory you want to initialize for git]   
$git init
$git remote add origin [URL of the github repository]