gitcommands

#in Jupyter Notebook, create a New Terminal
mkdir myrepo
cd myrepo
git init           #initialize a .git folder containing all the git files
ls -la .git        #show a list of files in the .git folder
touch newfile      #create a new file
git add newfile    #add the newfile to the repo
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"   #log into github
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git commit -m "added newfile"                      # commit change 

git branch my1stbranch   #create a branch
git branch               #check out the branches
git checkout my1stbranch  
git checkout -b my2ndbranch #another way to create a branch

echo "Here is some text in my new file" >> newfile  #make changes in file
cat newfile                #verify if text has been added
git status                 #check file status
git add *                  #get file ready to commit
git commit -m "add readme.md and modified newfile"         #commit changes
git log                     #see history of recent commits

git revert HEAD --no--edit             #use the shortcut HEAD to rollback the last commit

#press Q to exit git log 

git checkout master                #merge my1stbranch to master
git merge my1stbranch

git branch -d my1stbranch           #delete my1stbranch