Visual Guide to Common Git Commands and Their Detailed Usage
This article provides a visual, step‑by‑step guide to the most frequently used Git commands, explaining basic operations like add, commit, reset, and checkout, and detailing advanced actions such as diff, merge, cherry‑pick, and rebase, while illustrating concepts of blobs, trees, and HEAD states.
The article visualizes the most common Git commands, helping readers understand the workflow between the working directory, the index (staging area), and the repository.
It starts with basic usage, showing how git add moves files to the index, git commit snapshots the index, git reset undoes staging, and git checkout restores files.
Further sections detail commands such as git diff for comparing revisions, git commit -a , git checkout for branch switching or detached HEAD, git reset with its various options, git merge , git cherry-pick , and git rebase , each illustrated with diagrams.
The technical note explains that file contents are stored as blobs in .git/objects identified by SHA‑1 hashes, while trees represent directory structures, and how detached HEAD commits are referenced in the reflog.
References to the original visual‑git guide and additional resources are provided for deeper study.
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