CLI &mdash; pylapp https://write.as/pylapp/tag:CLI Software crafter, digital punker - <a href="https://pylapersonne.info" title="Personal web site">pylapersonne.info</a> Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:28:40 +0000 My Git cheatsheet https://write.as/pylapp/my-git-cheatsheet?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[h1My Git cheatsheet/h1 i๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ - Last update: Monday, January 12th 2026/i biKeywords: #Git, #commits, #GitHub, #GPG, #CLI/i/b h2A bit of context/h2 Sometimes I need to get back some commands I used in my terminal so as to work on my Git repositories of GitHub / GitLab projects. But I can have often some doubts about them, so I decided to list here some useful commands as a cheatsheet or a simple reminder to keep and share. I will try to keep it updated. There are nice resources in the bottom of this document! h3Applying some common Git configurations/h3 Use also the em--global/em option if you want to apply this configuration everwyhere. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-1.png" title="Define Git local configuration" alt="Apply 'git config' command with parameters 'user.name', 'user.email' and 'user.signingKey' and after the value" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Showing GPG keys to get ID to use for commits /h3 Useful to remember the ID of the GPG key to use to sign commits. More details in a href="https://write.as/pylapp/au-fait-pensez-vous-a-signer-vos-commits" title="Other publication in french of commit signing"this other publication (in french)/a. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-2.png" title="List GPG keys" alt="Apply GPG command 'gpg --list-keys --keyid-format=short'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Verify GPG signature of commits/h3 Keep in mind the software forges like a href="https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/about-commit-signature-verification" title="GitHub documentation about commit verifications"GitHub/a and a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/signed_commits/" title="GitLab documentation about signed commits"GitLab/a provide also some verification process for commits. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-3.png" title="Verify GPG signature of commit" alt="'git verify-commit' or 'git log --show-signature'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Verify GPG signature of artifacts/h3 img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-13.png" title="Verify GPG signature of artifacts" alt="'gpg --verify'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Verify assets or release integrity (GH)/h3 img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-14.png" title="Verify assets of release integrity with GitHub CLI client signature of artifacts" alt="'gh release verify' or 'gh release verify-asset'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Display contributors of a commit/h3 You can also filter to get other metadata in commits, a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#n525" title="Keywords fields in commit messages for patches"find here for example some ideas./a img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-4.png" title="Display commit authors and committers" alt="Use options of command 'git show'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Create branch from another and switch/h3 That's not the only command of course, but I like this one. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-5.png" title="Switch to new branch" alt="Apply command 'git checkout -b new-branch source-branch'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Get rid of the last N commits/h3 You can use of course other things instead of emHEAD~N/em. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-6.png" title="Get rid of the N last commits and push" alt="Apply command 'git reset --hard HEAD~N' then push with option '--force-with-lease'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Reword, reorder or squash last N commits with interactive rebease/h3 You can use of course other things instead of emHEAD~N/em. Beware of emfixup/em and emsquash/em, not the same uses with the commit messages. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-7.png" title="Interactive rebase" alt="git rebase -i HEAD~N" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Create a Git patch/h3 Allows to generate a Git patch from a diff to apply or send it later. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-10.png" title="Use the git format-patch to build a patch file" alt="Use commands 'git diff' or 'git format-patch' then 'git apply'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Keeping somewhere changes temporary/h3 Useful for drafts or temporary changes you don't want to version. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-9.png" title="Use the stash stack" alt="Use variants of command 'git stash' with actions 'push', 'pop', 'apply'" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Find someone to blame (maybe you!)/h3 The aim is to display who modified lines of files. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-11.png" title="Use the 'git blame' command" alt="Use command 'git blame' with -p and -e options" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Clean the repository/h3 Clean the project, get rid of files, but beware, you may loose things! img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-12.png" title="For available types of commandes depending to what you want to do" alt="Use 'clean -fd' to get rid of unnsaved files and directories, 'reset --hard' to go back to last commit, 'rm --cached' to remove modifications but keeping file and 'checkout' to make a file be reset to last commit" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h3Work on a fork and submit/h3 The workflow is simple: fork, create local develop branch with your dev stuff, make meaningful commits, then cherry-picks from this branch to a virgin one so as to submit a nice and simple pull request. img src="https://pylapersonne.info/data/cdn/blog/26/git-cheatsheet-8.png" title="Fork, sync, commit, cherry-pick and push" alt="Add upstream remote, checkout dev branch and rebase, make cherry-pick from working branch to pull request branch" class="centerImage toBigImage"/ h2Resources/h2 You have also some online resources like a href="https://git-cheat-sheet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" title="Some cheat sheet notes for Git"git-cheat-sheet.readthedocs.io/a. But, maybe most important, you can refer also to this amazing comic of a href="https://jvns.ca/" title="Website of Julia Evans"Julia Evans/a, available a href="https://programming.dev/post/19807634" title="Lemmy (programming.dev instance) publication of the hyperlink"online/a and also a href="https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/" title="Wizardzines page about Julia Evans book about Git"buy her book/a. 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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ โ€“ Last update: Monday, January 12th 2026

Keywords: #Git, #commits, #GitHub, #GPG, #CLI

A bit of context

Sometimes I need to get back some commands I used in my terminal so as to work on my Git repositories of GitHub / GitLab projects. But I can have often some doubts about them, so I decided to list here some useful commands as a cheatsheet or a simple reminder to keep and share. I will try to keep it updated. There are nice resources in the bottom of this document!

Applying some common Git configurations

Use also the โ€”global option if you want to apply this configuration everwyhere.

Apply 'git config' command with parameters 'user.name', 'user.email' and 'user.signingKey' and after the value

Showing GPG keys to get ID to use for commits

Useful to remember the ID of the GPG key to use to sign commits. More details in this other publication (in french).

Apply GPG command 'gpg --list-keys --keyid-format=short'

Verify GPG signature of commits

Keep in mind the software forges like GitHub and GitLab provide also some verification process for commits.

'git verify-commit' or 'git log --show-signature'

Verify GPG signature of artifacts

'gpg --verify'

Verify assets or release integrity (GH)

'gh release verify' or 'gh release verify-asset'

Display contributors of a commit

You can also filter to get other metadata in commits, find here for example some ideas.

Use options of command 'git show'

Create branch from another and switch

That's not the only command of course, but I like this one.

Apply command 'git checkout -b new-branch source-branch'

Get rid of the last N commits

You can use of course other things instead of HEAD~N.

Apply command 'git reset --hard HEAD~N' then push with option '--force-with-lease'

Reword, reorder or squash last N commits with interactive rebease

You can use of course other things instead of HEAD~N. Beware of fixup and squash, not the same uses with the commit messages.

git rebase -i HEAD~N

Create a Git patch

Allows to generate a Git patch from a diff to apply or send it later.

Use commands 'git diff' or 'git format-patch' then 'git apply'

Keeping somewhere changes temporary

Useful for drafts or temporary changes you don't want to version.

Use variants of command 'git stash' with actions 'push', 'pop', 'apply'

Find someone to blame (maybe you!)

The aim is to display who modified lines of files.

Use command 'git blame' with -p and -e options

Clean the repository

Clean the project, get rid of files, but beware, you may loose things!

Use 'clean -fd' to get rid of unnsaved files and directories, 'reset --hard' to go back to last commit, 'rm --cached' to remove modifications but keeping file and 'checkout' to make a file be reset to last commit

Work on a fork and submit

The workflow is simple: fork, create local develop branch with your dev stuff, make meaningful commits, then cherry-picks from this branch to a virgin one so as to submit a nice and simple pull request.

Add upstream remote, checkout dev branch and rebase, make cherry-pick from working branch to pull request branch

Resources

You have also some online resources like git-cheat-sheet.readthedocs.io.

But, maybe most important, you can refer also to this amazing comic of Julia Evans, available online and also buy her book. Her comic bellow is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Add upstream remote, checkout dev branch and rebase, make cherry-pick from cworking branch to pull request branch [Code samples rendered with carbon.now.sh]

โ€” Posted on Friday, September 27th 2024 โ€”

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