# paste this in your terminal to change your current working directory to the project directory cd your_project_path # initialize git git init

# connect the remote GitHub repo with your local project git remote add origin [github-repo-url] # see untracked files git status # add all untracked files to the staging area git add . # commit the tracked files of the staging area git commit -m "commit-msg" # push all the changes to the GitHub git push -u origin master 

# clone a repo git clone [repo_url]

# list all branches git branch # create a new branch git branch [branch_name] # checkout to the new branch git checkout [branch_name] #	OR # create AND checkout to the new branch git checkout -b [branch_name] # pushing the new branch on GitHub git push origin [branch_name] # delete a branch git branch -d [branch_name] 

# STEP #1: show URLs of remote repositories when listing your current remote connections git remote -v # STEP #2: add upstream git remote add upstream [source-repo-url] # STEP #3: fetching all the new changes from the main repository git fetch upstream # STEP #4: merging the new changes from the original repo to your forked local repo git merge upstream/master # STEP #5: pushing the new changes of the forked local repo to the GitHub git push origin master 

# Keep your GitHub forked repo in sync with the original repository with master as the primary branch function fetchremotems() {	git fetch upstream &&	git merge upstream/master &&	git push origin master } # Keep your GitHub forked repo in sync with the original repository with main as the primary branch function fetchremotemn() {	git fetch upstream &&	git merge upstream/main &&	git push origin main } # create new branch and checkout to it function gcb() {	git checkout -b "${1}" } # checkout to a branch function gc() {	git checkout "${1}" } # push changes to another branch function gbp() {	git push origin "${1}" } # add, commit, push changes to github function gacp() {	git add . &&	git commit -m "${1}" &&	git push } 

cd your_project_path # do this only once in every forked local repo to add upstream git remote add upstream [source-repo-url] # write the following in the terminal – primary branch: master – whenever you need to fetch the changes fetchremotems # write the following in the terminal – primary branch: main – whenever you need to fetch the changes fetchremotemn 

# To create a new branch and also to checkout to it gcb [branch_name] # To checkout to an existing branch gc [branch_name] # To push changes to another branch gbp [branch_name] # To add, commit and push changes to the github gacp "commit-msg"