Useful Commands: Git

Applying Patches

Get the patch file by viewing the Pull Request or commit in GitHub and adding .patch to the end:

https://github.com/PurpleTurtleCreative/grouped-content/pull/48.patch

Right-click the page of raw text and Save As... to your computer as a .patch file.

Apply the patch file (source). File paths are relative to your current location, so you should be at the top-level of the repo:

cd ~/sites/wp-grouped-content
git apply --reject --whitespace=fix /path/to/mychanges.patch

Find reject files for review:

find . -name "*.rej"

Automatically open all reject files for review in Sublime Text, Mac OSX:

find . -name "*.rej" | xargs open -a "Sublime Text"

Remove Commits from Pull Request

Sometimes you’ll find your Pull Request on GitHub contains unrelated commits that you don’t want polluting your branch’s or PR’s log. Use interactive rebase to remove the undesired commits and then force push the changes back up to the remote. (source)

git checkout my-pull-request-branch
git rebase -i HEAD~n
# where 'n' is the number of last commits you want to include in interactive rebase.
# Replace pick with drop for commits you want to discard.
# Save and exit.
git push --force

Automatically Set Remote HEAD ref

If you change the HEAD branch of a remote, you’ll likely encounter the error:

fatal: ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD is not a symbolic ref

You can fix it automatically with this command:

git remote set-head origin -a

List Tags with Commit SHAs

Tags are their own objects, which you can see by running:

git show-ref --tags

To know which commits each tag actually points to, dereference them and clean up the output:

git show-ref --tags -d | grep -F '^{}' | sed -e 's#refs/tags/##' | sed -e 's#\^{}##'

If your shell supports extended regex for the sed command, then this can be shortened to:

git show-ref --tags -d | grep -F '^{}' | sed -E 's#refs/tags/(.+)\^\{\}#\1#'