Git Tricks & Hacks To Be More Productive That Will Save Your Time

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Want to speed up your git skills?

Yes Open Source is the future that needs git skills and every modern IT companies needs collaborative work and Continuous Integration (CI) you will need git CLI skills there as well.

Today we will learn to be more productive in terms of git CLI commands.

10 Git Tricks to Save Your Time and Efforts ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

  1. Checkout a single file from another branch

git checkout some-other-branch -- yarn.lock

  1. View the log without merge commits`

git log --oneline --no-merges`

  1. Rewrite your last commit message`

git commit -v --amend`

  1. Get rid of all untracked changes

git clean -f -d

  1. Print out a cool visualization of your log

git log --pretty=oneline --graph --decorate --all

  1. Ask git for a changelog

git shortlog <commit>..HEAD

  1. View the log for a specific date range

git log --since='FEB 10 2016' --until='FEB 19 2016'

  1. List all git aliases

git config -l | grep alias | sed 's/^alias\.//g'

  1. Search for commits that include a keyword

git log -S"config. menu_items"

  1. Super secret list of git tutorials git help -g

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