git to the masses - quick tips

git to the masses

The following are things I found very helpful, which you also may find make your day-to-day usage of Git more enjoyable. Go HEADless In many (and perhaps all) cases HEAD is implied when no ref is given, such as the following equivalent statements: $ git log origin/master..HEAD $ git log origin/master.. Upstream reference Before you start referring to the upstream, you'll want to do a git fetch to update your refs/heads: $ git fetch You only need to do this once in a while, or whenever you know the upstream to have changed. You can refer to the upstream of any branchname or otherwise symbolic-ref by appending @{u} to the ref, such as: $ git log master@{u} If you just want the upstream of the current branch, whatever it may be, you can replace master from above with HEAD: $ git log HEAD@{u} Upstream difference Oftentimes I'll want to see what commits are on upstream that I d...

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