My master repository is going to use the alias "upstream" and my fork of it will use the alias "origin". I will be doing work in the develop branch, and I will be using the origin https://github.com/karlmortensen/learn-git
| Command | Result |
| git init | Make local machine current directory into a git repository. |
| git clone URL | Clone my fork of this repo from GitHub down to my local machine |
| git status | Show which files are modified and which are staged to commit |
| git status -s | Shows simplified view of git status |
| git checkout -b new_branch | Creates new_branch and sets it to be the branch I am working on |
| git add somefile.txt | Adds somefile.txt to the staged to commit list |
| git diff updatedfile.txt | Shows diff between the file on local machine and committed version |
| git branch | Show the branch I'm working on right now |
| git commit -m "My message here" | Commits changes to the branch I'm working on right now |
| git push origin master | Push committed changes to the origin repo, master branch |
| git fetch upstream | Grab the lastest-greatest from the upstream master |
| git merge upstream/master | Merge the fetched latest-greatest into my local clone |
