DevOps Classroomnotes 23/Apr/2022

Git Contd

• Different States a file can be and actions that transition between them
  
• Areas of git w.r.t local repository
  
• Current Status:
  
• Add all the changes into staging area git add --help
  Refer Here
• Add only modified files to the staging area
  
  
• Adding files with some pattern
  
  
• Other example
  
  

Moving changes from Staged Area back to working tree

• Add the changes to the staging area
  
• Now remove one file from staging area (unstage)
  
• To move the file from modified state in working tree to unmodified
  
• To move the changes from staging area to unmodified state
  
• Git reset is the old command and to move the changes from staging area to working tree the following was the approach
  
  
• Untracked files add to the staging area
  
• Moving them back to working tree
  
• To remove the untracked files from worktree we have git clean
  
• If you have directories as part of your untracked files
  
• Overview of moving changes
  

Exercises

• We have executed git reset --hard, try to findout what git reset --soft does?
• Findout what git revert does ?
• Findout what git rm does ?