Level Up Your Git Game: 10 Little-Known Features You’ll Love

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In this video, I’ll cover 10 things about Git you probably don’t know. Some of these are quirky, but others can seriously level up your workflow!

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:11 #1 git notes
1:27 #2 git worktree
6:00 #3 .gitkeep
7:05 #4 git reflog
8:06 #5 Send patches via email
9:12 #6 Fun fact: The maintainer of git
10:33 #7 The man page of git
11:10 #8 git request-pull
13:27 #9 git bisect
15:51 #10 git rev-list
17:22 Final thoughts

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My favorite one by far is git worktree. It saves me a lot of time switching between branches. What's yours?

ArjanCodes

One of the things I find myself using way too often is `git stash`. Sometimes I will make a bunch of changes, and then when I go to commit, I realize that I'm still in the main branch. But I want them to be in a feature branch. So I will use `git stash` to store my changes, switch to the feature branch, and use `git stash pop` to bring those changes into that feature branch instead.

schwaboy

I think being comfortable with interactive rebase, reflog and understanding how to use git reset --mixed and --soft pretty useful. For example if you've accidentally amended your changes to the last commit, but wanted to make a separate commit, just find the SHA from before the ammend with reflog, mixed-reset to that, and your changes are staged to be committed again.

danielhjertholm

There are two other great lectures in this format that I can strongly recommend – ”So you think you know Git” and part 2 by Scott Chacon. It’s a bunch of random stuff just like this, some of it very useful or interesting. 🧐😁

traal

Could you please make a follow along dev video using git best practices - what to commit, when to switch and so on, how merge, rebase - and why . just kind a real life workflow.

dmitryutkin

First time I used `git bisect` was to track a bug in the Linux kernel .. took like 7-8 iterations (and kernel builds .. and reboots) to find the culprit. Very satisfying when successful!

One command I use a lot to get the current commit hash: `git rev-parse HEAD`

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iSJy

My whole workflow is built around worktrees. I do a "bare" clone to keep that base directory relatively clean, and the keep all worktrees in that base.

danielhjertholm

Could you consolidate all the concepts of git in a course like structure. Could be pretty usefull

kricks

Amending is certainly one feature not mentioned that is very important to know - fixing existing commits.

Flankymanga

I really expected to see git ls-files / git cat-file in the list. Learning about those two will help dispel the mystery in the git db.

I echo the comments about interactive rebase - git rebase -i - that command has saved my bacon more than once.

Also this is a standard alias I setup on any new system to get a one line, colorized log per commit:
alias.lg=log --color --graph -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cd) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit

Aliases are a powerful feature such as this one to save typing:
alias.stashu=stash --include-untracked

But I guess git worktree might be even more useful now a days ...

Thanks again for a great video!

klmcwhirter