GitLab Commands

After create a new repository on gitlab, it usually gives below command line instructions.

Git global setup
git config --global user.name "Jim Zhao"
git config --global user.email "jim@example.com"

Create a new repository
git clone https://gitlab.com/jimzhao/test.git
cd test
touch README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "add file"
git push -u origin master

Existing folder
cd existing_folder
git init
git remote add origin https://gitlab.com/jimzhao/test.git
git commit -m "init message"
git push -u origin master

Existing Git repository
cd existing_repo
git remote rename origin old-origin
git remote add origin https://gitlab.com/jimzhao/test.git
git push -u origin --all
git push -u origin --tags

How to check changes on remote origin git repository?

There are couple of ways and lots of discussion regarding check changes on remote git repository.

git remote update - bring your remote refs up to date
git status - tell you whether the branch you are tracking is ahead, behind or has diverged

git show-branch *master - show commits in all of the branches whose names end in master (eg master and origin/master)

git pull origin master - bring my local up to date

git fetch origin - update the remote branch in your repository to point to the latest version
git diff origin/master - diff local against the remote
git merge origin/master - accept the remote changes

git remote show origin - Show synthetic view of what's going on remote "origin" repository

Git 101

git add - Add file contents to the index.
git branch - List, create, or delete branches
git bisect - Find by binary search the change that introduced a bug
git checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
git clone - Clone a repository into a new directory
git commit - save staged changes to local repository
git diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
git fetch - download objects and refs from another repository
git grep - Print lines matching a pattern
git init - reate an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one
git log - show commit logs
git merge - Join two or more development histories together
git mv - Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink
git pull - Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch
git push - Update remote refs along with associated objects
git rebase - Rebasing is the rewinding of existing commits on a branch with the intent of moving the branch start point forward, then replaying the rewound commits.
git reset - Reset current HEAD to the specified state
git rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index
git show - Show various types of objects
git status - Show the working tree status
git tag - create tagging.

git help xxx - to show help info