Git provides flexibility, allowing you to create workflows that suit your needs and preferences. However, there are best practices and caveats to be aware of.

Sometimes when resolving a merge conflict, you may want to keep one file instead of the other. You don’t need to open up the files and fix potentially hundreds of conflicts

The git rebase command offers powerful options in its –interactive mode, commonly abbreviated as -i. One of the most popular features is the ability to squash commits

While it’s great to have Git status shown in your bash prompt, it’s not your only option. Z Shell (zsh) is another popular command-line interface used by many programmers

The git log command is incredibly powerful, offering a multitude of options to help you understand what work has been done in your repositories and who has done it.

This article is a follow-up to the comments from yesterday’s discussion about interactive adding. Many readers were eager to learn more about the powerful git add -p command, which is a shortcut to the patch mode

So, you just executed git reset –hard HEAD^ and discarded your last commit. But now you realize you really needed those changes.

You just committed that awesome feature, test, or bug fix, but something isn’t quite right. Maybe some information is missing, the commit message is incorrect, or something else is off.