Git Basic Commands

• Create a remote repository using https://github.com or Oracle DCS. 
• Generate SSH Key. 
• Go to git bash cmd. 
• Type   ssh-keygen  and Enter
• Accept default values. Note down the folder. 
• Enter Passphrase
• Go to the folder and list the files.
•   You will see two files - id_rsa (Private Key) id_rsa.pub (Public Key)
• To avoid entering ssh password in case if you have given one while creating ssh key. 
•   Run  Following Command :    eval $(ssh-agent)
•   Then Run Following Command :  ssh-add ~private_key_path/.ssh/id_rsa
• Add the public key in the remote server either using console or command. 
• Get the SSH link from the Git console. 
• Create a local folder
• mkdir ICSLocalRepo
• Go to local folder -  cd ICSLocalRepo
• Clone remote repository using following commands. This will clone master branch by default. dot at the end will checkout files to current dir. 
• git clone ssh/http_URL .
•  Following command will create a new folder and checkout the branch.
• git clone ssh/http_URL new_dir_name 
• Clone a specific branch. Example - develop branch. 
• git clone -b develop ssh/http_URL  . or new_dir_name
• List  all remote branches. 
• git branch -a
• To check the remote repository details.
•   git remote -v
• Check the clone status using status command. 
• git status
• Command to add files to local repository and push it to stage
• git add --all 
• git add .
• Commit command. 
• git comit -m "Commit comments"
• Push the changes to remote repository.
• git push origin develop
• Pull the latest files from remote repository. 
• git pull --all
• Access a specific branch 
• git checkout develop
• Create a new branch from a remote branch. 
• git checkout -b release-<release-name> origin/develop
• Push new branch to origin. 
• git push origin release-<release-name>
• Merge changes to a branch. This will merge the changes from new_release_branch to develop. 
• git checkout develop 
• git merge new_release_branch

To fix the large file name issue, execute the following GIT command first and then perform the clone.

 git config --global core.longpaths true