Git Commands

Some nice-to-have Git commands. For more, see Git Flight Rules.

I want to see the current status of my repository

$ git status

I want to commit all modified files and add a commit message

$ git commit -a -m "Commit message"

I want to commit all modified files and add a commit message and description

$ git commit -a -m "Commit message" -m "Commit description"

I want to add all untracked file to my repository

$ git add .

I need to switch branch but don't want to commit my work-in-progress changes

$ git stash

Then, when you need to re-apply the stash:

$ git stash apply

And finally, when all looks good and you want to delete your stash:

git stash drop

I want to list all existing remote branches

$ git branch -r

I wrote the wrong thing in a commit message

$ git commit --amend --only -m 'New commit message'