Uncle P's corner of git sweetness

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Top N git commands used in a Pull Request based Workflow

Initial commands (cloning, fetching, pulling banching, etc)

Cloning a remote repository

git clone [git repo url]

Listing local branches

git branch --list

Checking out a branch

git checkout -b [branchname]

Deleting a branch

git branch -d [branchname]

Discarding any non-commited changes in your current branch

git reset --hard

Pushing your changes (typically after a rebase) to the remote branch by force

git push origin [branch name] -f

Discarding any non-commited changes in your current branch

git rebase origin [branchname]

Making your local branch point to the current HEAD on the remote branch

git reset origin [branch name]

Checking out a new branch that exists in remote, but not locally.

This is extremely useful when starting new development on a branch created already on the remote repository. git checkout [branch name]