Useful Commands:

git status Lists the modified / staged files at a certain time.

git diff Lets you see the difference between files modified and their last commits

git add <filename> Stages a file and gets it ready to be committed

git commit Commits all files that are staged

git reset HEAD <filename> Unstages a file

git checkout <filename> Resets a file to the last commit

git branch <branch name> Creates new local branch

git checkout <branch name> Switches you to another branch

git push origin <local branch>:<remote branch> Pushes your local commits to remote branch

git pull origin <remote branch> Pulls in from remote branch (this will not work if you have local commits that are not pushed)

git pull --rebase origin <remote branch> Pulls in from remote branch, adding your local commits on top of it

git rebase -i HEAD~<number> Allows squashing, deleting, etc. of multiple commits. <number> denotes the number of commits you want to see

git log Gets list of commits

gitk Graphical view of history of commits

-- AlbertWu - 15 Jul 2010