The extra header that should be attached.

header

The url where the request should be sent.

Uses the --header flag to attach an additional header when sending a request to a url.

Attach a header to an HTTP request with cURL

Curls a URL and follows redirects by using the -L flag. To limit the number of redirects, append `--max-redirects <num>`.

cURL a URL and follow redirects

Runs curl in verbose mode to display the request headers that were sent with a request.

Display request headers from a cURL request

The new URL the remote repository should point to

Sets the URL for a remote git repository to a new URL

Change URL of remote git repository

The name of the remote where the branch lives

remote_name

branch_name

Deletes a remote git branch. A local git branch of the same name, if any, will remain untouched.

Delete remote git branch

Deletes a branch both locally and remotely. The first command deletes the remote branch, whereas the second command deletes the command locally.

Delete local and remote git branch

json_data

Sends a POST request with JSON data using curl by setting the content-type of the request to "application/json".

POST JSON data with cURL

sshKeyPath

repositoryUrl

The name of the folder in which the repository should be cloned into

targetFolder

The Name of the User to be configured for the git repository

userName

The Email of the User to be configured for the git repository

userEmail

Clones a git repository given a specific SSH Key Path and configures it to use the desired Name and Email

Clone git repository with specific SSH Key and User

The path to the submodule that should be removed

submodule_path

Removes all traces of a git submodule from a repository. The `.git` dir of the submodule is kept around in the `/modules` folder of the main projects `.git` dir to make it possible to checkout past commits without requiring fetching from another repository.

Remove a git submodule

array_name

The values to append to the array, space-separated

values

Loops through an array, running a command on each value.

Append value(s) to an array

file

Returns an exit code of 0 if the file exists and has a size greater than zero.

Check if file exists and has a size greater than zero

Returns an exit code of 0 if the file exists.

Check if a file exists

The name of the array to get a value from

The index of the value to get (starting at 0)

index

Gets a value from an array and prints it to stdout.

Get a value from an array

integer_a

integer_b

Returns an exit code of 0 if the two integers are equal to each other.

Check if two numbers are equal

Returns an exit code of 0 if the file is readable by the current process.

Check if file exists and is readable by the current process

Makes an empty array and assigns it to variable "array_name"

Make a new, empty array

Returns an exit code of 0 if integer_a is greater than or equal to integer_b.

Check if a number is greater than or equal to another number

The command to run on each value in the array

command

Loop through an array and run a command on each value

Gets the number of elements in an array, and prints it to stdout.

Get number of elements in an array

Returns an exit code of 0 if the file exists and is a directory.

Check if a file exists and is directory

Deletes a local git branch only if it has been fully merged into the upstream branch. To force delete the branch irrespective of the its merged status, add the `--force` flag.

Delete local git branch

pattern

Search for a pattern among all committed files in a repository.

Search committed files

The variable to use in the body of the for loop.

variable

The sequence to iterate over. This is commonly a string.

sequence

A for loop that iterates through a sequence. A common example of this is to iterate through words in in a string, for example:

for i in $( ls ); do
     echo item: $i
done

Shell for-loop

string_1

string_2

Tests if two strings are not equal and returns an exit code of 0 if so.

Check if two strings are not equal to each other

The first command to run (whose output will be passed to the second command)

command_1

The second command to run, whose input will be taken from the output of the first command.

command_2

Executes command_1 and passes the output as input to command_2

Chain commands together by forwarding output as input to the next command (pipe)

array_index

value

Set an index in an array to a value

condition

The command to execute within the while loop.

A while loop, similar to one in other programming languages.

Shell while-loop

Creates a new local git branch and pushes the branch to a remote server to create a remote branch of the same name.

Create new git remote branch

A personal Authorization Token created on GitHub (may need to enable SAML after token is created) https://github.com/settings/tokens

auth_token

page

Uses the GitHub API to retrieve a list of repos (up to 100 per page) and clones them.

Clone all repos in a GitHub Organization

Returns an exit code of 0 if the file exists and is a regular file (i.e. is not a directory or a symbolic link).

Check if a file exists and is a regular file

new_commit_message

Amends the most recent git commit with a new message. This will not update the commit on a remote branch unless you force push the branch,

Modify the most recent commit message

Rebase master into feature branch

Remove all local untracked files and folders

Remove all untracked files and folders

The name of the tag that should be pushed to the remote git repository

tag_name

Push a tag to a remote git repository

Returns an exit code of 0 if integer_a is greater than integer_b.

Check if a number is greater than another number

Remove all local branches that doesn't exists in remote repository.

Remove all local branches that aren't on the remote repository

Returns an exit code of 0 if integer_a is less than or equal to integer_b.

Check if a number is less than or equal to another number

Returns an exit code of 0 if the file is executable by the current process.

Check if file exists and is executable by the current process

oldname

newname

Renames a local git branch while keeping the name of the upstream branch unchanged.

Rename local git branch

The port where processes should be killed

port

Kill processes at port

The command whose input should be read from a file.

The path to the file from where the input should be read.

Reads the contents within file and passes it as input to the command.

Read file contents as input to another command

Sync the local branch to the remote branch with the same name.

Synchronize upstream branch

remote

The name of the remote branch that the local branch should be point to

remote_branch

The name of the local branch that we want to set

local_branch

Sets the upstream for a local branch to a remote branch.

Set upstream branch

string

Returns an exit code of 0 if the length of the string is non-zero.

Check if string length is non-zero

path

extensions

Use the Find command to search for specified file types and run a certain command for each file

Search for specified file types and run a certain command for each file

The name of the remote branch that the local branch should be reset to

branch

Resets a local branch to match a remote branch by pulling the most recent changes from the remote branch and then force resetting the local branch to match the remote branch.

Reset local branch to match remote branch

List processes at a port to see if there are running processes.

List processes at port

username

Change username of git

Returns an exit code of 0 if the file is writable by the current process.

Check if file exists and is writable by the current process

The commit hash the file should be restored to

commit_hash

file_name

Resets a file back to a specific commit hash.

Reset file back to git revision

The number of commits that should be squashed together

num_commits

Squashes the last n commits together. This approach requires rewriting a commit message for the new squashed changes, unlike running `git rebase`.

Squash last n commits together

Undos the last git commit while leaving the working tree (the state of the files on disk) untouched.

Undo most recent git commit

The OAuth access token that should be used for the request.

access_token

Sends a request using cURL with an OAuth access token.

Set an OAuth authorization header with a cURL request

Check if a number is less than another number

Returns an exit code of 0 if the length of the string is zero.

Check if string length is zero

Returns an exit code of 0 if the two integers are not equal to each other.

Check if two numbers are not equal to each other

The command whose output should be forwarded to a file.

The path to the file where the output should be written.

Writes the output of a command to a file, overwriting anything that was already in the file.

Redirect output of command to a file

Tests if two strings are equal and returns an exit code of 0 if so.

Check if two strings are equal to each other

Redirects the output of the command to a file. Creates the file if not present, otherwise appends to it.

Redirect output of command to a file by appending

The path to the file where the stdout should be written.

Executes the command, redirecting stdout to a file. Specify `/dev/null` to ignore stdout completely.

Redirect stdout

The path to the file where the stderr should be written.

Executes the command, redirecting stderr to a file. Specify `/dev/null` to ignore stderr completely.

Redirect stderr

Removes a file that was staged for commit by `git add`. Executing `git reset` without any file name will unstage all changes.

Undo git add

After adding new files to the .gitignore file, these commands will update the git index

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