Editing Git (section)

===Operations===

====Cloning====
'''Cloning''' is the process of copying an existing Git repository via the Git tooling. 

====Checkout====
A '''checkout''' copies a local branch (version of the last commit of this branch) into the working directory and set the [[Git#Head|HEAD]] accordingly. This can include deletion of files or directories which are part of the current branch but not of the branch to be checkout (commands see [[Git#Checkout_a_branch|here]]).

====Fetch====
The git '''fetch''' command downloads commits, files, and refs from a remote repository into your local repo (it does not merge anything with local changes). Fetching is what you do when you want to see what everybody else has been working on (see [[Git#Fetch_everything_from_Remote|here]]).

====Merge====
There are different methods to merge:
* fast-forward (pointer just been moved forward)
* recursive strategy (creates a merge commit)
In case that the branches to merge are changed in different directions the merge will result in a new '''merge commit'''.

====Pull====
A git '''pull''' does a git '''fetch''' followed by a git '''merge''' (a fetch does not change the working directory).

====Push====
'''Pushing''' means sending a new version of the local repository to a remote repositories.

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====Stash====
Stashing takes the dirty state of your working directory — that is, your modified tracked files and staged changes — and saves it on a stack of unfinished changes that you can reapply at any time (even on a different branch).