Git Commands

Command	Description
git help	View summary of common commands
git help commit	View documentation about the git commit command
git init	Create a new Git repository with the current directory as the source directory
git clone https://github.com/SCOREC/core.git pumi	Clone a remote repository, creating source directory pumi
git status	Display a variety of current status info. When in doubt, run this.
git log	Show history in a linear fashion with full commit metadata
git log --oneline --graph --all --decorate	Show the history graph including where branches point to
git show abcd123	Show all the information about commit abcd123, including what changes it made
git add myfile.cpp	Accept all changes to myfile.cpp into the index. If untracked, start tracking.
git add --patch myfile.cpp	Interatively accept some changes into the index.
git add -u	Accept all modifications and removals of tracked files into the index.
git add -A	Like git add -u, also start tracking all untracked files.
git commit	Create a commit from the index, opens environment variable $EDITOR to write commit message
git commit -m 'Renamed a function'	Specify the commit message on the command line
git commit -a	Same as git add -u followed by git commit
git diff	Show changes between the index and the source directory
git diff --cached	Show changes between the index and HEAD
git diff --stat	Summarize differences as number of lines changed