Git: Beyond the Basics: Glossary

Use git config with the --global option to configure a user name, email address, editor, and other preferences once per machine.

Set up ssh keys to connect to github.com

Git add copies files into the staging area

Git commit creates a new commit by duplicating the staging area

Git status shows a summaries of differences between the trees

Commits are not overwritten, they’re stored somewhere and replaced

Understand HEAD, master, commits and branches

Used cat-file -p to explore blobs and objects

Learnt to change the state of the index, working tree using git reset

Learnt to change the commit which this branch points to with git reset

Learnt to selectively pick up historical versions of files with git checkout

Understand HEAD, master and the latest commit

We’ve been introduced to remotes and working with multiple remotes

We’ve seen how to track, work with and push to remote branches

We’ve used and created tags to give names to interesting commits

We’ve learnt to watch out for submodules, and initialise them

We’ve been introduced powerful logging commands

Learnt to use git to revert changes and modify the last commit

Learnt to change history in any way that we like to clean up our development story

Learnt to continue from the last commit in master with git pull --rebase

Learnt to use git blame to identify when a problem line was introduced

Learnt to use binary searches to identify lines which first introduce a problem