git-essentials SKILL.md skillA

git-essentials from pr-e/openclaw-master-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add pr-e/openclaw-master-skills/git-essentials@git:20260311.3e83cee

Pins git:20260311.3e83cee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade

A, 17 of 17 checks passed

Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

pr-e/openclaw-master-skills

Path

skills/git-essentials/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

1

Latest version

git:20260311.3e83cee, committed Mar 11, 2026

Size

7,074 bytes

Repository stars

4

License

MIT

Essential Git commands and workflows for version control, branching, and collaboration.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Git Essentials

Essential Git commands for version control and collaboration.

## Initial Setup

```bash
# Configure user
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your@email.com"

# Initialize repository
git init

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git
git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git custom-name
```

## Basic Workflow

### Staging and committing
```bash
# Check status
git status

# Add files to staging
git add file.txt
git add .
git add -A  # All changes including deletions

# Commit changes
git commit -m "Commit message"

# Add and commit in one step
git commit -am "Message"

# Amend last commit
git commit --amend -m "New message"
git commit --amend --no-edit  # Keep message
```

### Viewing changes
```bash
# Show unstaged changes
git diff

# Show staged changes
git diff --staged

# Show changes in specific file
git diff file.txt

# Show changes between commits
git diff commit1 commit2
```

## Branching & Merging

### Branch management
```bash
# List branches
git branch
git branch -a  # Include remote branches

# Create branch
git branch feature-name

# Switch branch
git checkout feature-name
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add pr-e/openclaw-master-skills/git-essentials@sha256:91afbc572326eb63

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_eshso2nyp4jodet5.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_eshso2nyp4jodet5)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 11, 2026.

Audit of the latest version

Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eshso2nyp4jodet5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pr-e/openclaw-master-skills/git-essentials
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/91afbc572326eb63a249a96f7880a21d1a0288f09b7d833cc616a184ce5ca71f

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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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