A work-in-progress list of my favorite Git commands

I was planning to write an article as a reference for the Git commands I use the most. In the following list you see these commands and an explanation for each one of them:

• Initialize an empty Git repository in an existing folder:
  • git init
• Discards all local changes to all files:
  • git reset –hard
• Clones an online repository:
  • git clone URLOfTheRepository
• Merge master into a feature branch. A practical way to refresh the feature branch with changes that were made in other feature branches and merged to master:
  • git rebase master
• Create a new feature branch:
  • git checkout -b BranchName
• A list of all local branches inside a repository:
  • git branch
• Delete a branch locally:
  • git branch -D BranchName
• Connect a remote branch to an existing local branch:
  • git branch –set-upstream-to=origin/TheNameOfTheRemoteBranch TheNameOfTheLocalBranch
• Make a new remote branch, based on the local branch
  • git push –set-upstream origin TheNameOfTheLocalBranch
• Revert the last commit you made:
  • git revert head
• Create a new local branch from cmd:
  • git checkout -b TheNameOfTheLocalBranch
• Push the local branch to remote:
  • git push origin TheNameOfTheLocalBranch
• Delete a remote branch:
  • git push origin –delete TheNameOfTheLocalBranch
• Update the local branches from the remote ones:
  • git pull
• Get & update all (not only the mapped ones) the remote branches locally:
  • git fetch