Top Useful GitWin Windows Commands That You can Try

Git bash is a functional command line interface for executing the shell command on various platforms like Windows, Mac. Here I unveil the windows version of GIT bash formally known as GitWin. You can download git bash from the official website. Git comes with built-in GUI Tools like git-gui, and gitk.

GitWin: Linux Oriented Commands That Work on Windows platform 

$ ls

ls is a Linux command to show files in the current directory, it works in MING32 well.

Create File and Write Data 

$cat > hello.txt

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//Ctrl+Z to stop and save

To show the file content

$cat hello.txt

 To clear terminal git terminal

$ clear

To show the system date

$date

Git Commands - Windows 7

To create a git repository: Its very simple, just run git init command where you want to create a new repository.

$git init

To commit the files and changes to the repository:

$git commit -am "This is a comment"

Here -am option is focused to add all implicitly, the git commit command ends with a string which tells the initial comment.

Pushing files to remote repository

$git  push FOO master

 To reveal the status of the current directory files

$git status -s

To reveal local configuration

$cat .git/config

 You can get latest development version of GIT from current git bash.

$git clone https://github.com/git/git

 Remove file from staging area

$git rm

git rm will help you to remove entries from the staging area.

To fetch something from remote

$git fetch github

How to undo changes and commits in GIT

To undo the last commit operation you done, first get the current status of repo, by issuing a command

$git status -s

 $git reset HEAD -foo.js

Undo any changes in the working directory

$git reset -hard

Tag for future references

$git tag -a ver2.0

$git tag -a ver3.0