Advanced Git Commands Become an Expert

I explain the advanced git commands for logging, tracking, diff, reset, and more with examples.

1) Git Log

Git Log : It helps to view the number of commits.

Example : git log -<number>

                                 git log -5

   Git Log one line : It will show each commit in a single line.

Example : git log --oneline

Git Log P : It will show the full differences of each commit

Example : git log -p

Git Log Stat : It will show a detailed log of modified files with a line number, newly added, and removed lines.

Example : git log --stat

Git Log By Author : It will fetch and show all commits made by the author.

Example : git log --author= "<author-name>"

git log --author="manikandan"

Git Log Grep : It will fetch and show all commits by the commit message.

Example : git log --grep="<commit-message>"

git log --grep="todo"

Git Log Between : It will fetch and show all commits by commit id or branch or head, etc.

Example : git log <commit-id>..<commit-id>"

git log 790fde..1710f

Git Log By File : It will fetch and show all commits by specific file.

Example : git log -- <file-name>

git log -- todo.js

Git Log Graph : It will fetch and draw a text-based graph on the left side of the terminal for all commits.

Example : git log --graph --decorate

2) Git Diff

Git Diff HEAD : It will show the difference between the working directory and the last commit.

Example : git diff HEAD

Git Diff Cached : It will show the difference between the staged changes and the last commit.

Example : git diff --cached

3) Git Reset

   Git Reset : It will reset staging files to match the most recent commit and change the working directory unstaged.

        Example : git reset

   Git Reset Hard : It will reset staging files to match the most recent commit and overwrite all changes in the directory.

        Example : git reset --hard

Git Reset By Commit Id : It will move the current branch to the given commit_id and reset staging files to match the most recent commit and change the working directory unstaged.

Example : git reset

git reset c123f5ty

Git Reset Hard : It will reset staging files and directory to match the most recent commit and delete the uncommitted changes files and all commits after the given commit-id.

Example : git reset --hard

git reset --hard c123f5ty

4) Git Stash

   Git Stash : It will save the uncommitted changes and staged changes.

        Example : git stash

   Git Stash Name : same as above, but it will store change with the name. it will help you working with multiple stashes.

Example : git stash save "<name>"

git stash save "my-changes"

Git Stash List : It will show the list of stash.

        Example : git stash list

   Git Stash Pop : It will undo changes and re-apply the most recent commit.

        Example : git stash pop

   Git Stash Apply : It will apply stashed change to the current branch.

        Example : git stash apply

   Git Stash Drop : It will discard the stashed changes.

        Example : git stash drop

   Git Stash Clear : It will delete all stash from the current working directory.

        Example : git stash clear