tldr/pages/common/git.md

git

Distributed version control system. Some subcommands such as commit, add, branch, checkout, push, etc. have their own usage documentation, accessible via tldr git subcommand. More information: https://git-scm.com/.

• Check the Git version:

git --version

• Show general help:

git --help

• Show help on a Git subcommand (like clone, add, push, log, etc.):

git help {{subcommand}}

• Execute a Git subcommand:

git {{subcommand}}

• Execute a Git subcommand on a custom repository root path:

git -C {{path/to/repo}} {{subcommand}}

• Execute a Git subcommand with a given configuration set:

git -c '{{config.key}}={{value}}' {{subcommand}}