bin/git-truncate 33174e010f5c586ecd89ce47067f796b751989f5

#!/bin/bash
# usage: git-truncate refhashtag
git checkout --orphan temp $1
git commit -m "Truncated history"
git rebase --onto temp $1 master
git branch -D temp

I've been using git for a while and forget some things.. so for the sake of repeating the internet.

Revert Working Copies

For a specific file use:

git checkout path/to/file/to/revert

For all unstaged files use:

git checkout -- .

Make sure to include the period at the end.

Merge in remote

git checkout master
git remote add username git://github.com/username/repo.git
git fetch username
git merge username/master-or-branch-name
git push origin master

Update existing remote

shadowbq@thaw:~/snorby_suite$ git remote
origin
shadowbq@thaw:~/snorby_suite$ git fetch origin
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From github.com:shadowbq/snorby_suite
   33174e0..7109d83  master     -> origin/master
shadowbq@thaw:~/snorby_suite$ git merge origin/master
Updating 33174e0..7109d83
Fast-forward
 TODO.md |   14 +++++++-------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)