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Title: Some git tricks
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Date: 2019-04-22 17:00
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Modified: 2023-05-14 20:00+2:00
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Author: Fabrice
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Category: cheat sheets
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Tags: git, termtosvg, cli
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Slug: git-tricks
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Header_Cover: images/covers/water.jpg
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Summary: A compilation of some `git` tricks I keep forgetting.
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Lang: en
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---
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Some [git](https://git-scm.com/) tricks I use from time to time and that I
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forgot everytime…
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**Disclaimer:** I'm not the perfect git user, and my way of using it is
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especially crude.
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Recently, most of my git commits are due to [pass]({filename}/software/pass.md),
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therefore most of those commands are here to fix my own mistakes.
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Reset `master` to `origin/master`:
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```sh
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git checkout origin/master -B master
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```
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Jump back and forth from a commit to another (same behaviour as :
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```sh
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git checkout -
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```
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Find back lost commits, especially useful when you are doing dirty things and
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want to `cherry-pick` an orphan commit (for instance):
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```sh
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git log --graph --reflog
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```
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Some explanations: `--graph` show the commit tree, which is useful to notice the
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orphan leafs, and `--reflog` shows the world all the dirtiness you've done.
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If you noticed that your folder grows, you can manually cast the garbage
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collector on it. It should do it automatically, but not often enough according
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to my standards.
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```sh
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git gc --aggressive
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```
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To add changes in an atomic fashion on a file (in an interactive way):
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```sh
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git add -p <file>
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```
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**Unsafe:** to remove a file from the past (for instance when you commit some
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*sensitive* file):
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```sh
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git filter-branch --prune-empty --tree-filter "rm -f '<file name>'" HEAD
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git push --force
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```
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Another useful trick is `git commit -v`, it allows reviewing your changes before
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committing.
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<object data="/examples/git-cv.svg" width="100%">Use of git commit -v</object>
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A ncurse-based interface for git: [tig](https://jonas.github.io/tig/)
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```sh
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tig
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```
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To make `diff`s more readable, I highly recommend to use delta as a diff filter:
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<https://github.com/dandavison/delta>.
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It makes the display of `git diff` close to what you can get in a browser
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repository, highlighting the places where diffs actually happen and is highly
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reconfigurable.
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Once it is installed in your package manager, you can for instance configure it
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as follows (mostly the same as in the GitHub page):
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```gitconfig
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[core]
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pager = delta
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[interactive]
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diffFilter = delta --color-only
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[delta]
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navigate = true # use n and N to move between diff sections
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light = true # set to true if you're in a terminal w/ a light background
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theme=Monokai Extended Light
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[merge]
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conflictstyle = diff3
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[diff]
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colorMoved = default
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```
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