Intermediate Git and Github Cheatsheet

Updated April 2023. Using git repository at work is all about working in a professional team and developer collaboration. Instantly improve your git and github workflow, productivity with this cheat sheet. This article assumes that you have learned a bit about Git and Github, and you know the basic commands below. Here’s a practical quick-start Medium article on intermediate-advanced Git and Github usage.

The goal of this cheatsheet is to be practical, immediately useful, and non-trivial. There are many advanced, and potentially hard-to-understand super Git tutorials out there, and this article is aimed at intermediate level. It is by no means comprehensive. That being said, we bet that your git development workflow will be improved! Read on. For more articles like this we tweet it out daily on Twitter @siliconlikes

Git is a distributed version control system. Developers use Git to manage changes to source code, maintain version history. Prior to Git, centralized SVN was the №1 version control system. It seems ancient but used to be the dominant tech. A quick note on installation: Mac, Linux usually already has Git installed. Windows will need gitbash a linux emulator.

After reading this tutorial check out the free Pro Git book online, a well respected, professional book on Git…