Git

My git cheat sheet! See my svn cheat sheet

command	description
git clone <path>	retrieves the entire git repository to your local disk
git pull	pulls any new revisions from the original path
git push	pushes local revisions to the original path
git tag	lists the avaliable tags
git checkout <tag>	changes the working copy to the tag specified

Getting the first tag that contains a file

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
        echo "usage: $0 <filename>"
        exit 1
fi
 
if [ ! -e $1 ]; then
        echo "$0: File does not exist ($1)"
        exit 1
fi
 
echo -en "Finding first commit..."
COMMIT=`git log --pretty=oneline "$1" | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 1`
if [ "$COMMIT" == "" ]; then
        echo "$0: Error while retrieving commits for file \"$1\""
        exit 1
fi
 
echo -en "\rFinding tags containing commit $COMMIT..."
git tag -l --contains "$COMMIT" > /tmp/tag_contains
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
        echo "$0: Error while retrieving tags containing commit \"$COMMIT\""
        exit 1
fi
 
echo -en "\rFinding first tag that contains $COMMIT..."
git for-each-ref --sort='-*authordate' --format='%(tag)' refs/tags/ |
while read a; do
        if [ "$a" == "" ]; then
                continue
        fi
        grep "$a" /tmp/tag_contains > /dev/null
        if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
                LAST=$a
        else
                echo "$LAST" > /tmp/tag_first
                break
        fi
done
TAG=`cat /tmp/tag_first`
rm /tmp/tag_contains /tmp/tag_first
 
echo -en "\rFinding tag information..."
INFO=`git show "$TAG" | head -n 3 | tail -n 2`
if [ "$INFO" == "" ]; then
        echo "$0: Error retrieving info for tag \"TAG\" (maybe it isn't annotated?)"
        exit 1
fi
 
echo -en "\r\0033[K"
echo -e "File:\t\t$1"
echo -e "First tag:\t$TAG"
echo "$INFO" | sed -re 's/^(.+):[ ]+(.+)$/\1:\t\t\2/'