git creating a branch and setting upstream branch

If you are working on a new task and you want to create a user branch and push it to remote, you can do so, using below methods.

Assuming you are in develop branch

git checkout develop #Recommended to always point your branch to same commit as develop
git pull                       #Recommened to get the latest from remote
git branch users/venkat/performanceFix #Creating new branch for your needs
git checkout users/venkat/performanceFix #Checking out branch locally
git push origin users/venkat/performanceFix  #Pushing the branch to remote
git push --set-upstream origin users/venkat/germanyThresholdChanges #Setting upstream branch for  current branch as the newly created branch


or

git checkout -b users/venkat/performanceFix Origin/venkat/performanceFix #single step if the remote branch already exists

or

If the remote branch already exists and you want to set the remote branch as current branch upstream.

git branch users/venkat/performanceFix
git checkout users/venkat/performanceFix
git branch --set-upstream-to origin/users/venkat/performanceFix

Finding Deleted file content in git

I was searching for a deleted file content and wanted to see which commit, the file was deleted. Finally, was able to resolve the same using the below commands.

git log -p -- DeletedFilePath  #Here, p stands for patch mode   or

git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- DeletedFilePath # Here, we are printing commits in reverse chronological way

After I found the commit, I went to VSO to search for the commit. We can also find the commit content using below git command.

git show