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Julia Evans Apr 17, 2024

a git cheat sheet

Julia Evans Apr 17, 2024

really appreciated everyone's suggestions on the previous thread! https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112276852440106066

I only included things that I actually do in the cheat sheet (with a couple of exceptions like `git push -u`, which I only don't use because I have `push.autoSetupRemote true` configured) but there are a lot of other useful-looking tips in that thread that I don't personally use

Julia Evans (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image working on a draft of a git cheat sheet, what's missing? most interested in relatively "basic" things in git that you always forget how to do. Right now I think the push/pull section is by far the weakest

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Julia Evans Apr 17, 2024

the only other things in this cheat sheet that I personally don't use are `git switch` and `git restore`, which I actually think seem like great choices (the fact that `git checkout THING` just GUESSES if you want to switch to a branch or restore an old version of the file is kind of scary! git switch doesn't do that! and git checkout's syntax is just really weird!), but I'm used to `git checkout` and it doesn't cause me a lot of problems so I haven't been motivated to change my ways

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DerPumu (he/him)

@b0rk I'm at `git switch -c` sometimes, but git checkout for everything else. Also, `switch -c` is often baked into some alias as in the projects I work on, there tends to be some common prefix to most of my branch names.