This is first in my collection of cheat-sheets. This is here as a blog post until I figure out how to have a separate section just for cheat-sheets and not make them show up in posts, and then find time to implement it. Till then here it is and here it will be updated as and when need arises 🙃

Show change-history of a file

History of commits where this file was changed. This only gives the commits where it was changed (not the file-diff for those commits)

git log -- <file>

History of commits with file-diff

git log -p -- <file>

History of commits with file-diff tracked across renames

git log --follow -p -- <file>

Automatically rearrange fixup commits to their appropriate positions when rebasing

git rebase --interactive <commit-hash> --autosquash

Find which files have had the most commits

git log --all -M -C --name-only --format='format:' "$@" | sort | grep -v '^$' | uniq -c | sort -n | awk 'BEGIN {print "count\tfile"} {print $1 "\t" $2}' | tail -10

Create an empty commit

git commit --allow-empty -m "Commit message goes here"

List files in a commit

git show --pretty="" --name-only <sha1-commit-hash>

Reset a branch head to a specific commit

git checkout <branch-name>
git reset --hard <commit-hash>

Reference: stackoverflow

Make git forget a tracked file

Let’s suppose we want to remove file.log from git tracking but keep it in the file system.

1. Add file.log to .gitignore
2. Commit .gitignore changes
3. Execute the command git rm --cached file.log
4. Commit the removal of file.log from git.

Have a great day people 👋