Remote git useful commands

For the remote branch, I created a free github account and created a repository in there.

Clone remote repository

git clone https://github.com/vivekmenondotnetanalysis/Repo1.git

First push to gitserver

git push --set-upstream origin master

Subsequent pushes to gitserver

git push                                                 

Show local branches

git branch                         

Show remote branches

git branch -r

Show remote url

git remote -v

Get data from remote repository

git fetch

Merge the fetched data

git merge

Fetch and merge in one step

git pull


Tag a branch with v1.0 

git tag v1.0 

Tag a branch with v1.0 and add a message

git tag -a v1.0 

Create a signed tag

git tag -v v1.0

List all tags

git tag -l

Get the code with tag v1.0


git checkout tags/v1.0

Get the code with tag v1.0 and create a new branch named b1 with that code

git checkout tags/v1.0 -b b1
Push with tags

git push --tags