Git cheat sheets are a dime-a-dozen but I think this one is awfully concise for its scope.
- Visually covers branching (WITH the commands – rebasing the current branch can be confusing for the unfamiliar)
- Covers reflog
- Literally almost identical to how I use git (most sheets are either Too Much or Too Little)
Damn she has a ton of these helpful tech guides on her site under “Comics”.
I need this poster or canvas printed so I can hang it on my office wall…
but in light mode, right? … right?
screams in ink spill
Looks like the original was “light mode”. The image is a colour-reversed image of the free PDF version which is on the creator’s site at the bottom of the page.
Direct PDF link: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf
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Yeah, for some reason I find this hard to read. I think it might be the lack of contrast between the fonts? Could be fixable by adjusting the weight instead of totally changing the font, though. (I would change the handwritten-looking one just because I find it kind of ugly.)
Oh, I color-inverted it…(；・.・)
The original is here, which is indeed light mode.
edit: see palor’s comment :P
I think it’s really pretty color inverted! Luckily, I’m not having trouble reading it, either- my eyes thank you.
Missing the “oh shit need to fix this other thing but I am in the middle of a big change,” flow. I use git stash, but I wish I could include files that haven’t been added and I wish it could be tied to the branch
That sounds like the perfect situation to use
git worktree.I’ve stopped using
stashand mostly just commit to my working branch. I can squah that commit away if I want later. But we squash before merge so it doesn’t tend to be worth it.It’s just less things to remember.
The only time I see a rebase fail is due to a conflict. Which can be aborted with
git rebase --abortno need for reflogs unless you really mess things up.I’ll admit that in 10 years using git, I don’t think I’ve ever used reflog once.
It can be nice when you successfully do a rebase (after resolving conflicts), but change your mind about the resolution and want to redo it.
Doesn’t come up that much, but it’s been handy once or twice, for me. It’s also just nice security: no matter how I edit commits, I can always go back if I need to.
Maybe you resolved the conflict in the wrong way and want to restart after finishing the rebase.
Not sure I would say that is a rebase failing - just you messing things up. Can happen with any merge. But yeah that is a place where reflog would be useful. But I dont see why it would be on the cheat sheet instead of a
git rebase --abortor be rebase specific.
I went from GUI to terminal and I’ll never go back. Especially with interactive add,
git add -iI use the best of both worlds. A gui in the terminal. GitUI
WHAT
Try it out. It is a great utility.
Yep, #metoo, though I started with terminal. I still use GUI but mostly only for visualizing history.
I recently got on
git add -p, which comes in clutch sometimes. But yeah, I’m definitely about to start doing the interactive add.Also, squints at your username
The lengths Ppl will go to in order to not use a GUI… I haven’t written a git command in a terminal in years.
Learnt how it works, played around with it then used different GUI tools for it.
My personal experience is most people who are using git with a GUI are the same people who are asking my help to git-fu their git-problems…
Most GUIs only offer a subset of the git functionalities and hide what’s really going on by obscuring gitshell with “their workflow”.
In all cases, use what you like; some people like the shell. Cheatsheets are normally only for learning purposes and usually don’t stick for long, it’s not an end game thing…
GUI users = low skill ✅
Majority GUI a weak subset and of little use ✅
Elitism ✅
Of course, this is all couched in “use what you like”, and top it off with a general sentiment of how this post is all but useless.
If someone has to ask you for your git fu help the problem isn’t GUI use it’s the incompetence and/or inability to solve it yourself. Implying a strong correlation of the two is where I take issue.
My personal experience? A built in GUI saves you so much time like the one in JetBrains IntelliJ, if I need something more use case oriented that is more than the core fn (intelliJ’s does not simply include fetch/push/pull, but much more including everything in the graphic) then I click terminal tab and do what I need. Similarly the git tree provides an immediate view and context of the branches, changes, tags etc.
It’s almost like filtering people into GUI and CLI boxes doesn’t really work.
I think you’re making a lot of misinterpretation; but that’s up to you…
But, just so that I can understand correctly… When you’re saying: “if I need something more […] I click terminal tab”
That “terminal tab” of yours, it’s a CLI isn’t it?
It probably is, but I think their main point is the protest against the age-old delineation into “GUI vs CLI” camps. I’m not saying that you’re elitist, even if your statement might be interpreted as such (it’s hard to communicate tone online but the quotations around “their workflow” could appear mocking), but regarding the structure of your statement, I had a “Windows users are all button-presser noobs” phase and would’ve typed something similar about the Git CLI if time was decently rewound (sans the kindness of a “use what you like” statement). They could be interpreting your statement as a propagation of the anti-GUI stereotyping.
Evidently they prefer GUI but can effectively use the CLI – no one disagrees that the CLI is more functional.
I’ve been using TortoiseGit since the beginning, and it covers everything I need. Including advanced use cases. I can access almost all functionality from the log view, which is very nice.
I’ve tried a few other GUIs, but they were never able to reach parity to that for me. As you say, most offer only a subset of functionalities. Most of the time I even found the main advantage of GUIs in general, a visual log, inferior to TortoiseGit.
GitButler looks interesting for its new set of functionalities, new approaches. Unfortunately, it doesn’t integrate well on Windows yet. Asking for my key password on every fetch and push is not an acceptable workflow to me.
I like the terminal because:
- It’s the same everywhere. You don’t lose knowledge by switching to a company that has a different git client.
- You know what’s going on, mostly. Most clients will assume you want to do things one way and do it that way for you, especially when it comes to fetching/pulling/merging. I’d rather go through all the steps in the terminal myself so I can assure myself that I won’t be reliving various past broken merge traumas.
- If you like the terminal generally, you’re probably also doing other stuff there anyway. So you can get used to running whatever commands to test, lint, push, etc. without switching windows or even taking your hands off the keyboard and it becomes muscle memory.
In recent git versions (>2.23),
git restoreandgit restore --stagedare the preferred ways to discard changes in the working tree (git checkout -- .) and staged changes (git reset --) respectively.Huh, TIL.
To be fair,
git switchwas also derived from the features ofgit checkoutin >2.23, but likegit restore, the manual page warns that behavior may change, and neither are in my muscle memory (lmao).I’ll probably keep using checkout since it takes less kb in my head.
Besides, we still have to use checkout for checking out a previous commit, even if I learn the more ergonomically appropriateNo deprecation here so…switchandrestore.edit: maybe I got that java 8 mindset
edit 2: Correction –
git switch --detachchecks out previous commits. Git checkout may only be there for old scripts’ sake, since all of its features have been split off into those two new functions… so there’s nothing really keeping me fromswitch.Besides, we still have to use checkout for checking out a previous commit
git switch works on commits too. I don’t think you have to use checkout anymore.
Oh, you’re right. You just pass the
-ddetach flag. I stand corrected!
git has 17 million options
proof needed /s
I wonder how many it actually is.
According to tab autocomplete…
$ git zsh: do you wish to see all 141 possibilities (141 lines)?But what about the sub options?
$ git clone https://github.com/git/git $ cd git/builtin # looking through source, options seem to be declared by OPT # except for if statements, OPT_END, bug checks, etc. $ grep -R OPT_ | grep --invert-match --count -E \ "OPT_END|BUG_ON_OPT|if |PARSE_OPT|;$|struct|#define" 1517Maybe 1500 or so?
edit: Indeed, maybe this number is too low.
git showhas a huge amount of possibilities on its own, though some may be duplicates and rewords of others.$ git show -- zsh: do you wish to see all 489 possibilities (163 lines)? $ man git-show | col -b | grep -E "^ -" --count 98An attempt at naively parsing the manpages gives a larger number.
$ man $(find /usr/share/man -name "git*") \ | col -b | grep -E "^ -" -c 1849Numbers all over the place. I dunno.
That’s less than I expected. If there’s 141 commands that on average comes down to 10 per.
I use like 4 git commands in prod (make a branch, rebase, rebase interactive, push) plus git gui & gitk.
