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‎Clear staged files

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 === Clear staged files ===
    git clean -df
 === clear stale remotes ===

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:04, 14 March 2026
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	Git cheatsheet - nifty git usage example.		Git cheatsheet - nifty git usage example.
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		+	=== rebuild cache ===
		+	rm -f .git/index
		+	git reset

	=== Clear staged files ===		=== Clear staged files ===

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 === Clear staged files ===
- git clean -df
+  git clean -df
 === download a specific tag ===
- git checkout tags/<tag_name>
+  git checkout tags/<tag_name>
 === which commit does a blob belong to? ===

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 === Clear staged files ===
   git clean -df
 === which commit does a blob belong to? ===

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:28, 25 September 2022
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	Exactly the same process as cherry-picks, just with revert instead of cherry-pick		Exactly the same process as cherry-picks, just with revert instead of cherry-pick
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		+	=== create an empty branch ===
		+	From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34100048/create-empty-branch-on-github
		+	<pre>
		+	git switch --orphan <new branch>
		+	git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial commit on orphan branch"
		+	git push -u origin <new branch>
		+	</pre>

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   git branch -a --sort=committerdate
-What's the latest commit in the branch?
+=== What's the latest commit in the branch? ===
   git log -n 1 <branchname> --format=format:%ci

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		+	=== Clear staged files ===
		+	git clean -df

	=== which commit does a blob belong to? ===		=== which commit does a blob belong to? ===

← Older revision		Revision as of 16:29, 11 May 2020
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	=== Allow empty commit ===		=== Allow empty commit ===
	git commit --allow-empty -m 'trigger build'		git commit --allow-empty -m 'trigger build'
		+
		+	=== revert ===
		+
		+	How do you do reverts, by the way? Do you create a reverse patch from a hash, and commit it on top to develop ?
		+
		+	I’m very careful, so I create a new branch and revert on that, then merge the branch in.
		+	1. checkout and pull develop
		+	2. cut new branch
		+	3. git revert <commit hash>
		+	4. push to origin and open PR
		+
		+	Exactly the same process as cherry-picks, just with revert instead of cherry-pick

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	=== set globalgitignore ===		=== set globalgitignore ===
	git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore'		git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore'
		+
		+	=== Allow empty commit ===
		+	git commit --allow-empty -m 'trigger build'

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	=== list conflicting files ===		=== list conflicting files ===
	git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U		git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U
		+
		+	=== set globalgitignore ===
		+	git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore'