gitcommands.txt

check which branch you are on : git branch
change to a different branch : git checkout -b branchname
if pull shows error "refusing to merge unrelated histories" then do: git pull --allow-unrelated-histories  origin main #assuming you are pulling to main branch
to add a new remote: git remote add origin2 git@github.com:User/UserRepo.git
to set up origin url: git remote set-url origin https://your_token@github.com/username/repositoryname.git
to get url of remote named origin: git remote show origin // git remote get-url origingit // git config --get remote.origin.url
set up global username and email: git config --global user.name "Your Name Here"
git config --global user.email your@email.example

In order to set up local username and email go to the directory of your repo and do: 
git config user.name "Your Name Here"
git config user.email your@email.example

to check username in a repo do: git config user.name  
to check user email in a repo do: git config user.email
to check global username do: git config --global user.name
to check global user email do: git config --global user.email

add all changes : git add .
discard all unstaged changes : git restore .
conmmit changes: git commit -m "message"
push changes (assuming you are on main branch): git push -u origin main 
git restore .
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25436312/gitignore-not-working
git rm -rf --cached . # commit everything you have changed before doing this
git add .

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Julia package specific. 
If package docs are not deployed and you need to trigger Documenter, you can create and push tag (with metadata) as
git tag -a v2.0.0+docs -m "message"
git push origin v2.0.0+docs
here v2.0.0+docs is a git tag whereas documenter will only look at v2.0.0 and get triggered to deploy docs for version 2.0.0
See https://documenter.juliadocs.org/stable/man/hosting/ for more details. Specifically section "Fixing broken release deployments" on that page.
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