Git Commands
Here are some useful commands for configuring and using Git in the terminal.
Email configuration
Commands for configuring the email address globally or for a single repository.
# Set the global email address for commits
git config --global user.email "user@example.com"
# Set the email address for commits in the current repository
git config user.email "user@example.com"
Rewrite history
Use the git-filter-repo tool to rewrite the history of a Git repository. This can be used to change the email address associated with commits. The command shown below uses uvx to run git-filter-repo and change the old email to a new email address. The body of the callback represents the body of a Python function. Note the function must return a bytestring instead of a string.
uvx git-filter-repo --force --email-callback '
return email.replace(b"old@email.com", b"new@email.com")
'
Tags
Commands for working with tags and pushing tags to a remote repository.
# List all the tags in a repository's history
git tag
# Create a lightweight tag for the current commit
git tag v25.12
# Push the tag to the remote origin repository
git push origin v25.12
# Push all tags to the remote origin repository
git push origin --tags