Git quick reference

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Quick Reference Only
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of git operations. See the documentation for that.

Basic Operations

Developer Operations

Create a new local branch

git checkout -b <branch>

Push and create a new remote branch from an existing local branch of the same name

git push origin <branch>

Switch to a branch that was pushed remotely

Guess the name of the remote branch then run:

git checkout -b <branch> origin/<branch>

Maintainer Operations

Apply mailed git patch

git am <file>

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