Some Usefull git commands for newbies

To list git user creds/config

git config --list

To add a user email (Same goes for password, name etc)

git config user.email example@user.email

To add user email globally (Same goes for password, name etc)

git config --global user.email example@user.email

To remove/unset a user data e.g email (Same goes for password, name etc)

git config --global --unset user.email

If you have an attribute with multiple values like a user with set with multiple names. If you try to unset with the above mentioned command, it’ll give you an error like this:

warning: user.name has multiple values

To change them (Same goes for email, password etc)

git config --global --replace-all user.name 'Your Name'

Stash

Git provides a stash feature. You’re working on something and need to checkout to another branch or shift to code another module/feature but neither commit the code nor undo this. In this kind of situation, git provides stashing feature. Running following command make git to stash the uncommitted code.

git stash

You may check how many stashes are there by this command

git stash list

Listing stashes can make you a bit confused about which stash has what. One way is to save stashes with messages so you can identify the stash. Use following command to stash with message.

git stash push -m "Stash Message"

There’s another way that makes you watch the stash contents. But it needs the stash stack. The following command will show you the content of top stash.

git stash show -p stash@{0}

Boom.