7 Git Commands You May Not Know

GitHub recently went free for teams which is great news for all devs. We all have our everyday Git commands that we use over and over. But what if I told you there are some lesser known Git commands that may make your life easier.

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Git aliases I can't live without

My love for aliases started when I installed zsh and its addon suite oh-my-zsh for the first time. It contains a big set of predefined aliases and helper functions for different command line programs.

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How To Ease Your Team’s Development Workflow With Git Hooks

7 min read Tools, Techniques, Workflow Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Development workflows can easily get out of hand and start causing confusion and friction within teams — especially as they get bigger in size.

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Using git-flow to automate your git branching workflow

Vincent Driessen’s "git flow" branching model is a git branching and release management workflow that helps developers keep track of features, hotfixes and releases in bigger software projects.

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A better Git workflow with rebase

On this "Coding Tip of the Day" I'll show you a different way of approaching git branching/merging with rebase. My team at Amazon adopted the workflow you'll see in the video and we love it. Whether you're mostly a solo developer or on a large team, give this a shot, I guarantee that even if you don

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Trunk-based Development vs. Git Flow

In order to develop quality software, we need to be able to track all changes and reverse them if necessary. Version control systems fill that role by tracking project history and helping to merge changes made by multiple people. They greatly speed up work and give us the ability to find bugs more easily.

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Git Best Practices

Over the years I learned a lot about git. Most of the parts I learned the hard way by using it on a regular basis. Here I summarize a lot of the things which I would consider Git Best Practices for using git in a team.

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Automate Your Workflow with Git Hooks

Git hooks are one of the most underrated git features, and have the potential to increase your productivity as a developer. Have you ever wanted to run a command every time you commit or push? Lucky for you, that’s exactly what git hooks do — they’re custom scripts that run before or after git commands to automate manual tasks. Read on to find out how hooks could improve your workflow.

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The Smart Ways to Correct Mistakes in Git

The world of software development offers an infinite amount of ways to mess up: deleting the wrong things, coding into dead ends, littering commit messages with typos, are a mere few of the plentitude. ​​Fortunately, however, we have a wonderful safety net under our feet in the form of Git when we’re working with version control.

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Git Merging vs. Git Rebasing : The Beginner's Guide

Let’s say you’re creating a feature branch off a master for a new feature you are about to implement. You finish up your work on the feature branch while one of your colleagues is making some changes on the master branch.

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Git aliases for lazy developers

I prefer to interface with git via the command line, at least for the simple commands. However, I’m a bit lazy, and don’t like having to repeatedly type out the same long commands multiple times a day.

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An Introduction to Git Merge and Git Rebase: What They Do and When to Use Them

As a Developer, many of us have to choose between Merge and Rebase. With all the references we get from the internet, everyone believes “Don’t use Rebase, it could cause serious problems.

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Git aliases I can't live without

My love for aliases started when I installed zsh and its addon suite oh-my-zsh for the first time. It contains a big set of predefined aliases and helper functions for different command line programs.

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Git Catastrophes and Tips to Avoid Them

In this post, I'd like to highlight some git features that might be less used/known, but can end up saving your @$$ when things go south in the codebase. Fortunately, it is really hard to irrevocably mess something up with git, as long as you have the .git hidden folder in your project intact!

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How to organize your git branches

I remember implementing git in my team. I think it was more than 6 years ago. At that time, A successful git branching model by Vincent Driessen was required reading if you wanted to learn how to work with git effectively. Since then, I've been following the "Git Flow" style.

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Most common Git mistakes and how to fix them

If you ever worked on a big project with many collaborators, then obviously you were using Git as your control system. And when you are working with something as complex as Git, we all make mistakes.

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A quick guide to squashing Git commits

Let's get one thing out of the way first: rewriting Git history just for the sake of having a pretty tree, especially with public repositories, is generally not advisable.

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11 Painful Git Interview Questions You Will Cry On

According to the latest Stack Overflow developer survey, more than 70 percent of developers use Git, making it the most-used VCS in the world. Git is commonly used for both open source and commercial software development, with significant benefits for individuals, teams and businesses.

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Useful git commands for everyday use!

Do you know that questions about git get the most views on StackOverflow? I’ve searched a lot on Google how to execute certain actions with git, and this actually slowed me down a lot. There are some actions that we tend to use a lot, so it’s good to learn them.

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Cherry-Picking With Git

Managing feature branch changes that aren't quite ready for a full merge can be a difficult task. Sometimes you don't want to push a whole branch into another, and only need to pick a few specific commits. This process is called cherry-picking.

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