Reference

Quick reference guides: GitHub Cheat Sheet (PDF) | Visual Git Cheat Sheet (SVG | PNG)

Setup and Config

• config
• help

Getting and Creating Projects

• init
• clone

Basic Snapshotting

• add
• status
• diff
• commit
• reset
• rm
• mv

Branching and Merging

• branch
• checkout
• merge
• mergetool
• log
• stash
• tag

Sharing and Updating Projects

• fetch
• pull
• push
• remote
• submodule

Inspection and Comparison

• show
• log
• diff
• shortlog
• describe

Patching

• apply
• cherry-pick
• diff
• rebase
• revert

Debugging

• bisect
• blame
• grep

Email

• am
• apply
• format-patch
• send-email
• request-pull

External Systems

• svn
• fast-import

Administration

• clean
• gc
• fsck
• reflog
• filter-branch
• instaweb
• archive
• bundle

Server Admin

• daemon
• update-server-info

Plumbing Commands

• cat-file
• commit-tree
• count-objects
• diff-index
• for-each-ref
• hash-object
• ls-files
• merge-base
• read-tree
• rev-list
• rev-parse
• show-ref
• symbolic-ref
• update-index
• update-ref
• verify-pack
• write-tree