Github Guide for Dummies

This contains all the necessary CMD line commands to execute and add new repositories in github.

• Adding new project
• changing user name
• global initialization of usernames
• Renaming branch
• Adding to remote repo in github

Follow these methods to get started

• GIT ORIGIN

  • ADD ORIGIN URL

   git remote add origin <github-url>

  • REMOVE ORIGIN URL

   git remote rm origin

  • VIEW ORIGIN URL

   git remote -v

  • RENAMING ORIGIN URL

   git remote set-url origin <new-url>

• GIT PROCEDURE:

  • ADD Files to staging

   git add .

  • COMMIT the changes

   git commit -m "init"

  • PUSH the changes to GITHUB

   git push origin master

• VIEW GITHUB CREDENTIALS

  • VIEW GIT USER and EMAIL credentials

   git config --global --list

• CHANGE GITHUB CREDENTIALS

  • CHANGE USERNAME

   git config user.name <name>

  • CHANGE EMAIL

   git config user.email <email>

• TODO If you want to change the username and user email for the individual project

  • Change the email

   git config user.email <email-id>

  • Change the username

   - git config credential.username <user-id>

  • NOTE:
    • Changing the name, whether name contains spaces or not

     git config user.name "<if name with spaces>"

     git config user.name <if name contains no spaces>

• RENAME BRANCH

  • Renaming the branch

   git branch -m <oldname> <newname>

• LOG HISTROY

  • To view the history of commits

   git log

• FORCE RESET DO it after the git pull origin master, to forcefully make it same as the remote branch

   git reset --hard origin/master 

• RESET to a previous COMMIT

   git reset <commithash>

• FOURCE UPDATE

   git push origin <branchName> --force