git basics

git Basics

Setup git command line

The folowing commands will set your username and account for git.

git config --global user.name "<Your username here>"
git config --global user.email "<Your email here>"

These next command will set the cache time for your git. This is so you don't have to keep logining into github each time you do a push or pull.

git config --global credential.helper cache
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=9999999'

Running the following command will show you which files have changed and if you have created new files that are not in the repo.

git status

To put your changes (or new files) back into github first do a git add

git add <file>

Do this for all the files you want to be commited back to github.

Then to commit and push your changes by doing the following.

git commit -m "<your commit message here>"
git push 

To get changes from another user (after you have already done git clone) you will need to do a git pull.

git pull

To undo a git add do a git reset like this

git reset <filename>

To undo all file changes. do the following.

git reset -hard