Git Cheats

Useful Aliases

Refer to dotfiles/git/gitconfig at master · calfzhou/dotfiles.

Delete a Remote Branch

1	git push origin --delete BRANCH

List Changed Files (w/o Details)

1 2	git diff --name-only BRANCH git show --name-only COMMIT-ID

List Commits Gap Between Two Branches

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git l --left-right master...HEAD
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git log ---left-right --one-line --graph master...HEAD

Where a > commit is in the right (2nd) branch, while a < commit is in the left (1st) branch.

Diff Two Arbitrary Files

1	git diff --no-index -- FILE1 FILE2

See the Changes Made by a Commit to the Specified File

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git show COMMIT-ID FILE
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git show --oneline COMMIT-ID FILE

Scenario: When git l a specific file, usually I’d like to see what changed in a history commit.

$ git l FILE
* db217ef84d3 2024-10-24 05:43 ...
* edfd91a00d1 2024-10-02 07:51 ...
* 01e00a9bc7e 2024-09-30 17:04 ...

I want to see the changes made to this file by commit db217ef84d3 (without looking at the changes to other files):

1	git show --oneline db217ef84d3 FILE

Track Whether and How a Commit got into a Branch

To list branches containing the given commit:

1	git branch --contains COMMIT-ID

To track it:

1	gitk COMMIT-ID..HEAD --ancestry-path

This will show only commits that are descendants of the commit COMMIT-ID and antecessors of the HEAD of current branch (you can use any two commits separated by ..).

github - Git track how a commit got into a branch - Stack Overflow

撤回 Commit

撤回最后一次 Commit

1 2	git reset --hard HEAD~1 git push -f

撤回中间的某一次 Commit

比如：

gitGraph:
  commit id: "A"
  commit id: "B"
  commit id: "C"
  commit id: "D"
  commit id: "E"

要删掉 commit “C”：

1	git rebase --onto B C

The `~` vs. The `^`

参考：Git 中的 ~ 和 ^ - scarletsky

如果想要 HEAD 的第 10 个祖先，直接用 HEAD~10 就可以。<rev>~<n> 用来表示一个提交的第 n 个祖先提交，如果不指定 n，那么默认为 1。另外，HEAD~~~ 和 HEAD~3 等价。

<rev>^<n> 用来表示一个提交的第 n 个父提交，如果不指定 n，那么默认为 1。和 ~ 不同的是，HEAD^^^ 并不等价于 HEAD^3，而是等价与 HEAD^1^1^1。

~ 获取第一个祖先提交，^ 可以获取第一个父提交。其实第一个祖先提交就是第一个父提交，反之亦然。因此，当 n 为 1 时，~ 和 ^ 其实是等价的。

Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger. Both commit nodes B and C are parents of commit node A. Parent commits are ordered left-to-right.

G   H   I   J
 \ /     \ /
  D   E   F
   \  |  / \
    \ | /   |
     \|/    |
      B     C
       \   /
        \ /
         A
A =      = A^0
B = A^   = A^1     = A~1
C = A^2  = A^2
D = A^^  = A^1^1   = A~2
E = B^2  = A^^2
F = B^3  = A^^3
G = A^^^ = A^1^1^1 = A~3
H = D^2  = B^^2    = A^^^2  = A~2^2
I = F^   = B^3^    = A^^3^
J = F^2  = B^3^2   = A^^3^2