# Basic Git Commands

Hello readers, this is the continuation to the previous blog **[Introduction to Git](https://sreedeviblog.hashnode.dev/introduction-to-git)**, for your reference  please follow this if you missed the previous blog.

in part - 2 we are going to discuss some more git commands which are commonly use in our day to day work.

## **Git Commands**


-  To merge the branches:
    
    - branch2 will merge with the branch1

```
$ git merge branch1 branch2
```
 

-  To switch to another branch from the current branch, and if the specified branch name  does not exist git will create new branch with the specified name:

```
$ git checkout branch_name
```


-  To revert to the earlier commits.
      - To perform this operation commit id is required, we can get commit id from the **git log ** command

```
$ git revert commit-id
```


- To record the current state of the working directory and the index, but want to go back to a clean working directory. 
     - The command saves your local modifications away and reverts the working directory to match the HEAD commit

```
$ git stash
```


- To revert back to the working directory  with the local modifications which are stashed before:

```
$ git stash pop
```


- To list the files in the stash:

```
$ git stash list
```


- To delete all the files from the stash:

```
$ git stash clear
```

- To merge only a specific commit ID from source to target branch:

     - Scenario:
         - Suppose you have two branches named "dev" and  "test" .
         - Currently you are headed to "dev" branch  and wants to merge specific commit of "dev" branch to
            the "test" branch. 
         - First you need to switch to the "test" branch with the help of "git checkout test" command 

         - From the test branch using the commit id of the "dev" branch  and cherry-pick command we 
             can perform the operation.

```
$ git cherry-pick commit-id
```


- To download commits, files and references from a remote repository into the local repository:
    
     - Gives the information of a new change from a remote repository without merging into the current 
        branch
     - Repository data is updated in the .git directory


```
$ git fetch --all
```