Git

Table of contents

1. Git commands
   1. View commit history
   2. Archive from commit history
2. Other commands
   1. Updating Git

Git commands

View commit history

• List all commits (in the active branch)

git log

• List all commits (in all branches)

git log --all

• List only x commits
  • git log -p -x

git log -p -2

• List commits by author
  • git log –author=”"

git log --author="Ricardo Paiva Moinhos"

• List changes in file (in the active branch)
  • git log – “"

git log -- "c:\repo\file.cs"

• List changes in file (in all branches)
  • git log –all – “"

git log -all -- "c:\repo\file.cs"

• List changes in any file in a folder (in all branches)
  • git log –all – “"

git log -all -- "c:\repo\"

• List changes in file (even if it was renamed, deleted, and doesn’t exist)
• git log –follow – “"

git log --follow -- "c:\repo\file.cs"

Archive from commit history

• Archive specific commit to a zip file
  • git archive -o <output path + filename>

git archive -o "C:\repo\archive.zip" 53da8a72f08a8c9dc862b7683b07d9ea965ae91a

• Archive specific commit and specific subfolder to a zip file
  • git archive -o <output path + filename>

git archive -o "C:\repo\archive.zip" 53da8a72f08a8c9dc862b7683b07d9ea965ae91a "app"

Other commands

Updating Git

• Update Git in Windows

git update-git-for-windows