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Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago by fool to c/programming
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Git cheat sheets are a dime-a-dozen but I think this one is awfully concise for its scope.

  • Visually covers branching (WITH the commands -- rebasing the current branch can be confusing for the unfamiliar)
  • Covers reflog
  • Literally almost identical to how I use git (most sheets are either Too Much or Too Little)
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[–] Kissaki 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

git has 17 million options

proof needed /s

I wonder how many it actually is.

[–] fool 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

According to tab autocomplete...

$ git
zsh: do you wish to see all 141 possibilities (141 lines)?

But what about the sub options?

$ git clone https://github.com/git/git
$ cd git/builtin
# looking through source, options seem to be declared by OPT
# except for if statements, OPT_END, bug checks, etc.
$ grep -R OPT_ | grep --invert-match --count -E \
"OPT_END|BUG_ON_OPT|if |PARSE_OPT|;$|struct|#define"
1517

Maybe 1500 or so?

edit: Indeed, maybe this number is too low. git show has a huge amount of possibilities on its own, though some may be duplicates and rewords of others.

$ git show --
zsh: do you wish to see all 489 possibilities (163 lines)?
$ man git-show | col -b | grep -E "^       -" --count
98

An attempt at naively parsing the manpages gives a larger number.

$ man $(find /usr/share/man -name "git*") \
| col -b | grep -E "^       -" -c 
1849

Numbers all over the place. I dunno.

[–] Kissaki 3 points 3 months ago

That's less than I expected. If there's 141 commands that on average comes down to 10 per.