Basic Git CLI

git config --global user.name "<Your Full Name>"
git config --global user.email "<Email id"

git clone origin git@gitlab.com:path/to/project.git project
cd project
git switch -c main
touch README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "add README"
git push -u origin main

cd existing_folder
git init --initial-branch=main
git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:path/to/project.git
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push -u origin main
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## Push an existing Git repository

## Recover deleted file

{{< tweet user="joshwcomeau" id="1609320980622581761" >}}

In a scenario where you want to recover a file deleted long back (assuming you know the file), first run the following command

This finds the commit that deleted the file.
Checked out that commit, and then backed up one more (`git checkout HEAD~1`).

This loads the file right before it was deleted!