git

git stash

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Updated: 14 November 2025

Stash away the changes in a dirty working directory.

Also stash away un-tracked files

git stash --include-untracked
git stash -u

git worktree

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Updated: 09 November 2025

Concurrently checkout multiple branches of the same repository.

Delete a worktree

git worktree remove worktree_name

List all worktrees

git worktree list

Create a worktree at path and checkout commit-ish into it

git worktree add <path> <commit-ish>

git show

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Updated: 07 October 2024

List files which were touched by a commit

git show --pretty="" --name-only REVISION

Show a file at a particular revision

git show REVISION:path/to/the/file

git bare

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Updated: 16 June 2024

Initialize a repo with no working directory e.g. a shared repository. Developers can clone shared-project.git

git init --bare shared-project.git

Use a bare git repo to control a working-tree in another directory

git --work-tree=path/to/my-code --git-dir=path/to/bare-repo.git <usual git commands>

git push

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Updated: 30 May 2024

Push everything to a new remote

git push new-remote --all
git push new-remote --tags
# Also push remote branches to new-remote, even where local copies do not exist.
git push new-remote 'refs/remotes/origin/*:refs/heads/*'

git clone

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Updated: 17 May 2024

Clone a single branch from a repository

git clone --branch xdebug2 https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug.org.git

git patch

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Updated: 15 February 2024

Make a patch file from the 1st commit in HEAD

git diff @~1 @ > my.patch

Apply the patch file to another repo

git apply my.patch

git clean

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Updated: 10 January 2025

Remove un-tracked directories and files from the working tree

git clean -fd

Remove un-tracked directories and files from the working tree. Also remove (-X) ignored files.
Can be combined with the -n/--dry-run option

git clean -fdX

git instaweb

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Updated: 22 October 2023

Instantly browse your working repository in gitweb. A simple script to set up gitweb and a web server for browsing the local repository.

By default, instaweb will look for the lighttpd web-server, see https://christaylordeveloper.co.uk/web-server/lighttpd.

You will need to install gitweb first

sudo apt install gitweb

Run the instaweb script

git instaweb --start

Browse to http://127.0.0.1:1234/

Stop instaweb

git instaweb --stop