The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
git-ignore – Add .gitignore patterns Synopsisgit-ignore [<context>] [<pattern> [<pattern>]…] DescriptionAdds the given _pattern_s to a .gitignore file if it doesn’t already exist. Options<context> -l, –local Sets the context to the .gitignore file in the current working directory. (default) -g, –global Sets the context to the global gitignore file for the current user. <pattern> A space…
git-ignore-io – Get sample gitignore file Synopsisgit ignore-io [<OPTIONS>] DescriptionGet sample gitignore file from gitignore.io https://www.gitignore.io Options<OPTIONS> -a, –append <types>… Append new .gitignore content to .gitignore under the current directory -r, –replace <types>… Export new .gitignore to the current directory (The old one will be replaced) -l, –list-in-table Print available types in table format -L,…
git-http-push – Push objects over HTTP/DAV to another repository Synopsisgit http-push [–all] [–dry-run] [–force] [–verbose] <url> <ref> [<ref>…]DescriptionSends missing objects to remote repository, and updates the remote branch. NOTE: This command is temporarily disabled if your libcurl is older than 7.16, as the combination has been reported not to work and sometimes corrupts repository. Options–all…
git-http-fetch – Download from a remote Git repository via HTTP Synopsisgit http-fetch [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [–recover] [–stdin | –packfile=<hash> | <commit>] <url>DescriptionDownloads a remote Git repository via HTTP. This command always gets all objects. Historically, there were three options -a, -c and -t for choosing which objects to download. They are…
git-http-backend – Server side implementation of Git over HTTP Synopsisgit http-backendDescriptionA simple CGI program to serve the contents of a Git repository to Git clients accessing the repository over http:// and https:// protocols. The program supports clients fetching using both the smart HTTP protocol and the backwards-compatible dumb HTTP protocol, as well as clients pushing…
git-help – Display help information about Git Synopsisgit help [-a|–all [–[no-]verbose]] [[-i|–info] [-m|–man] [-w|–web]] [COMMAND|GUIDE] git help [-g|–guides] git help [-c|–config]DescriptionWith no options and no COMMAND or GUIDE given, the synopsis of the git command and a list of the most commonly used Git commands are printed on the standard output. If the option –all…
git-hash-object – Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file Synopsisgit hash-object [-t <type>] [-w] [–path=<file>|–no-filters] [–stdin [–literally]] [–] <file>… git hash-object [-t <type>] [-w] –stdin-paths [–no-filters]DescriptionComputes the object ID value for an object with specified type with the contents of the named file (which can be outside of the work tree),…
git-guilt – calculate change between two revisions Synopsisgit guilt [<option>] git guilt [<option>] <since> [<until>] DescriptionIn the first form, shows total blame count for files with unstaged changes. In the second form, calculates the change in blame between two revisions. If not specified, <until> will default to HEAD. Options-h Output usage information -e, –email Display…
git-gui – A portable graphical interface to Git Synopsisgit gui [<command>] [arguments]DescriptionA Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. git gui focuses on allowing users to make changes to their repository by making new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories. Unlike gitk, git gui focuses on commit…
git-grep – Print lines matching a pattern Synopsisgit grep [-a | –text] [-I] [–textconv] [-i | –ignore-case] [-w | –word-regexp] [-v | –invert-match] [-h|-H] [–full-name] [-E | –extended-regexp] [-G | –basic-regexp] [-P | –perl-regexp] [-F | –fixed-strings] [-n | –line-number] [–column] [-l | –files-with-matches] [-L | –files-without-match] [(-O | –open-files-in-pager) [<pager>]] [-z | –null] […
git-graft – Merge and destroy a given branch Synopsisgit-graft <src-branch> <dest-branch> DescriptionMerge commits from <src-branch> into <dest-branch> Options<src-branch> <dest-branch> Examples$ git graft new_feature devAuthorWritten by Kenneth Reitz <me [at] kennethreitz.com> Reporting Bugs<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues> See Also<https://github.com/tj/git-extras>
git-gh-pages – Create the GitHub Pages branch Synopsisgit-gh-pages DescriptionCreate the GitHub Pages branch (gh-pages) with an initial dummy index.html file. Examples$ git gh-pages setting up gh-pages Removing … [gh-pages (root-commit) 94f4b26] Initial commit 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 index.html Counting objects: 3, done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 232 bytes, done. Total 3…
git-get-tar-commit-id – Extract commit ID from an archive created using git-archive Synopsisgit get-tar-commit-idDescriptionRead a tar archive created by git archive from the standard input and extract the commit ID stored in it. It reads only the first 1024 bytes of input, thus its runtime is not influenced by the size of the tar archive very…
git-gc – Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository Synopsisgit gc [–aggressive] [–auto] [–quiet] [–prune=<date> | –no-prune] [–force] [–keep-largest-pack]DescriptionRuns a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase performance), removing unreachable objects which may have been created from prior invocations of git add,…
git-fsck – Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database Synopsisgit fsck [–tags] [–root] [–unreachable] [–cache] [–no-reflogs] [–[no-]full] [–strict] [–verbose] [–lost-found] [–[no-]dangling] [–[no-]progress] [–connectivity-only] [–[no-]name-objects] [<object>*]DescriptionVerifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database. Options<object> An object to treat as the head of an unreachability trace. If no objects are…
git-fsck-objects – Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database Synopsisgit fsck-objects …DescriptionThis is a synonym for git-fsck(1). Please refer to the documentation of that command. GitPart of the git(1) suite
git-fresh-branch – Create fresh branches Synopsisgit-fresh-branch <branchname> DescriptionCreates empty local branch named <branchname>. Options<branchname> The name of the branch to create. Examples$ git fresh-branch docsAuthorWritten by Kenneth Reitz <me [at] kennethreitz.com> Reporting Bugs<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues> See Also<https://github.com/tj/git-extras>
git-format-patch – Prepare patches for e-mail submission Synopsisgit format-patch [-k] [(-o|–output-directory) <dir> | –stdout] [–no-thread | –thread[=<style>]] [(–attach|–inline)[=<boundary>] | –no-attach] [-s | –signoff] [–signature=<signature> | –no-signature] [–signature-file=<file>] [-n | –numbered | -N | –no-numbered] [–start-number <n>] [–numbered-files] [–in-reply-to=<message id>] [–suffix=.<sfx>] [–ignore-if-in-upstream] [–cover-from-description=<mode>] [–rfc] [–subject-prefix=<subject prefix>] [(–reroll-count|-v) <n>] [–to=<email>] [–cc=<email>] [–[no-]cover-letter] [–quiet] [–[no-]encode-email-headers] [–no-notes | –notes[=<ref>]]…
git-fork – Fork a repo on github Synopsisgit-fork [<github-repo-url>] DescriptionIf a github repo url is given, fork the repo. Like clone but forks first. 1. forks the repo on github 2. clones the repo into the current dir 3. adds the original repo as a remote called upstream If a url is not given and…
git-forest — display the commit history forest Syntaxgit-forest [-a] [–no-rebase] [–style=number] [–sha] [–svdepth=depth] [rev-list-options] [refspec…] Descriptiongit-forest is a command-line zero-lookahead git repository history visualizer with Unicode output with a bit of gitk resemblance. Why another program?The tree visualization of gitk is very useful, but there were (git 1.5.4 timeframe) no decent visualizers that can run…