Git Notes

Table of Contents

1. History
2. Troubleshooting
- 2.1. The .gitignore file doesn’t ignore all the files

1. History

To review a previous commit:
1. Make a copy of the repo
2. Launch gitbash
3. CD into the copy of the repo
4. Look through the history and identify the desired commit-hash by running:
  git log
5. Now checkout the desired version:
  git checkout <commit-hash>

2. Troubleshooting

2.1. The `.gitignore` file doesn’t ignore all the files

Try this as an example where all the file in the node_modules folder are not being ignored:
1. Run this
  git rm -r --cached ./node_modules
2. Now do a git commit which will remove all of the files in node_modules folder from the list of changed files.
3. At this point the list of changed files will be the intended list.