git_notes.md

Git Notes

• Move file, with history, to a new repo (StackOverflow: Move files between Git repos preserving history):

  git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse --binary -- path/to/file_or_folder | (cd /path/to/new_repository && git am)

• StackOverflow: Get the last commit hash from a remote repo without cloning.

  # Get last commit for default branch:
  git ls-remote <url> HEAD | awk '{print $1}'
  # Get short last commit for branch:
  git ls-remote <url> refs/heads/<branch> | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 1-7 -

• StackOVerflow: How to blame a deleted file in git?.

  git log -2 --oneline -- /path/to/file

• LiveJournal: git log --grep examples - for historical commit message searching.

• Get files/folders from git repo without checking out:

  • Git: archive.
  • git archive -v --format=<zip|tar> -o <output_file> --remote=<repo> <ref> <file/folder>

Github

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