JGIT(1)

✨ JGIT(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about jgit — the Pure Java GIT version control system implementation 💅 and yes she's serving pure Java realness, no cap. This is page 1 of the General Commands Manual, and she is iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

jgit — Pure Java GIT version control system implementation 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

jgit --git-dir GIT_DIR --help (-h) --show-stack-trace command [ARG ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like, JGit is an implementation of GIT VCS written in Java language. Java! The language! The whole entire version control system, reimagined 🫶

And Git itself? Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. unusually rich — she's not like other version control systems, fr fr. High-level and full access to internals? Versatility queen 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --git-dir GIT_DIR — Set the git repository to operate on 🗂️ like, which repo are we doing today bestie
• --help (-h) — Display help text 🙈 the classic "help me I'm lost" button, we love her
• --show-stack-trace — display the Java stack trace on exceptions 💀 when things go wrong, you get the whole tea, every frame of it

👑 The most commonly used commands 👑

• add — Add file contents to the index 🍓
• branch — List, create, or delete branches 🌿 branching out, main character energy
• checkout — Checkout a branch to the working tree 🧚
• clone — Clone a repository into a new directory 🌈 copy-paste but make it git
• commit — Record changes to the repository 💾 the sacred act
• daemon — Export repositories over git:// 🔥
• diff — Show diffs 👀 spot the difference, but serious
• fetch — Update remote refs from another repository 📡
• init — Create an empty git repository 🎀 the very beginning, a fresh start, we love a blank slate
• log — View commit history 📜 the receipts, the archives, the lore
• merge — Merges two development histories 💜 two timelines become one
• push — Update remote repository from local refs 🚀 send it
• rm — Stop tracking a file 🫥 she's gone, no longer monitored
• tag — Create a tag 🏷️
• version — Display the version of jgit ⭐

💜 AUTHOR 💜

JGit was written by Eclipse JGIT Project contributors, http://www.eclipse.org/jgit 🌐

This manual page was written by Jakub Adam <jakub.adam@ktknet.cz>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Shoutout to Jakub, absolute legend, writing docs for the people 🙏

so yeah, that's the whole vibe. JGit: Java, git, and a command set that ate 💅

✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ: November 11, 2011 — JGIT(1), General Commands Manual :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧ 🦋✨ bye bestie, go commit something 🫶