Git Tips

A curated collection of concise Git tips and command examples, maintained as an open-source repository.

Website: https://github.com/git-tips/tips#readme
Category: Themed directories
Tags: git, developer-tools, tips
Source: GitHub

Overview

Git Tips is a repository of practical Git commands and patterns, organized as small, copyable snippets. It focuses on everyday workflows (branching, history inspection, reset/revert, cleanup, etc.) and serves as a quick reference for developers using Git from the command line.

The collection is community-driven and available in multiple languages.

Features

1. Tip Collection & Coverage

A wide range of Git workflows and use cases are covered, including (but not limited to):

• Everyday workflows

  • "Everyday Git in twenty commands or so" – a compact set of commands for routine daily Git usage.

• Help & documentation

  • Show built‑in Git guides and documentation.

• Searching & history inspection

  • Search changes by content.
  • Show changes over time for a specific file.
  • List of all files up to a specific commit.
  • List of all files changed in a given commit.
  • View unstaged changes since the last commit.
  • View changes staged for commit.
  • Show both staged and unstaged changes.
  • See commit history for just the current branch.
  • See all commits made since forking from master (listed in the index).

• Cleaning & rewriting history

  • Remove sensitive data from history after it has been pushed.
  • Git reset of the first commit.
  • Reset while preserving uncommitted local changes.
  • Reset to discard commits (recommended for private branches).
  • Undo local changes with the last content in HEAD.
  • Revert a commit by creating a new commit.

• Branch management

  • List all conflicted files (useful during merges).
  • List all branches already merged into master.
  • Quickly switch to the previous branch.
  • Remove branches that have already been merged into master.
  • List all branches with their upstreams and the last commit on each branch.
  • Track an upstream branch.
  • Get list of all local and remote branches.
  • Get only remote branches.
  • Delete a local branch.
  • Delete a remote branch.

• Tag management

  • Create a local tag.
  • Delete a local tag.
  • Delete a remote tag.

• Remote repositories

  • Change a remote’s URL.
  • Get list of all remote references.

• Authorship & metadata

  • Reword the previous commit message.
  • Amend the author of a commit.
  • Reset author info after global config author has changed.

• Index and staging

  • Stage parts of a changed file instead of the entire file (interactive staging).

• Shell integration & quality of life

  • Enable Git bash completion.
  • Show what changed since a given time period (e.g., "since two weeks").

Note: All commands in the repository are tested on git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66) (as stated in the content), but most are applicable to modern Git versions.

2. Multi-language Availability

Git Tips is available in several languages via community-maintained mirrors:

• English
• 中文 (Chinese)
• Русский (Russian)
• 한국어 (Korean)
• Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
• 日本語 (Japanese)
• नेपाली (Nepali)
• Polski (Polish)
• فارسی (Persian)

Each language typically has its own GitHub repository linked from the main README.

3. Tooling

• git-tip CLI
  • A command-line tool (git-tip on npm) to access and use the tips from the terminal.
  • Available as a Docker container for easy usage without local installation of the NPM package.

4. Contribution

• Public, open-source repository on GitHub.
• Contributions are accepted through a documented process (contributing.md), allowing users to add and refine tips.

Pricing

Git Tips is an open-source, GitHub-hosted resource.
Price: Free (no paid plans or pricing tiers indicated).

Tech & Platform

• Platform: GitHub repository.
• Primary interface: Markdown documentation and command-line examples.
• Related ecosystem tools: git-tip NPM package, optional Docker image.