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Git Cheatsheet

Cloning a repo

# Clone repo to current folder
git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

# Clone repo to specified folder
git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git specified-folder

# Clone the contents of the repo to current folder
git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git .

# Clone repo with history truncated to specified commts
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

Working with a fork

# add the original repository as remote repository called "upstream"
git remote add upstream https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

# fetch all changes from the upstream repository
git fetch upstream

# switch to the master branch of your fork
git checkout master

# merge changes from the upstream repository into your fork
git merge upstream/master
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