Git Useful Commands

I recently started hosting my repos on my own server and found this handy way of looking at all the files from the repo without cloning (assuming you used the -bare option which doesn't show the files but has other benefits).

git log --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=A | sort -

that's on the actual server, but you could call it from your local machine by ssh'ing to the server by:

ssh user@host "your git command here"

TO View Log:
git log
git log --name-status or git log --name-only or git log --stat

If you want to get the file names only without the rest of the commit message you can use:
git log --name-only --pretty=format: <branch name>

This can then be extended to use the various options that contain the file name:
git log --name-status --pretty=format: <branch name>
git log --stat --pretty=format: <branch name>

git diff --stat HEAD^! shows changed files and added/removed line counts for the last commit (HEAD).

Show revision Number:
git rev-list HEAD | wc -l

Ignore a file from tracking:
git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>



To remove a file that you have added but not committed, use a command like this:

git rm --cached file.to.remove

This will remove the file from the index, but not touch the file on disk.

To remove a file (or files) from the most recent commit, use the above git rm --cached command followed by git commit --amend.

git reset --hard <commit-hash>

git rm -r --cached .
git add .
git commit -m "fixed untracked files"