git-advanced-workflows

Interactive rebase allows you to clean up commit history by squashing minor fixup commits and rewording messages to prepare a clean pull request. You can reorder, squash, or drop commits to ensure a traceable project history before submission.

Cherry-picking is the best way to apply a hotfix across release branches, allowing you to selectively apply specific commits. This ensures critical fixes are propagated to necessary branches without merging unrelated history changes.

Git bisect works by performing a binary search through your commit history to efficiently locate the exact commit that introduced a bug. It systematically checks out commits, asking you to mark them as good or bad, narrowing down the regression source.

Yes, you can use git worktrees for parallel development, allowing you to check out multiple branches simultaneously in separate directories. This eliminates context switching and prevents the need to stash changes when jumping between features or releases.

You can restore a lost commit or branch by utilizing the git reflog, which records updates to the tip of branches. Reflog allows you to recover from errors and restore lost commits by finding and resetting to the specific reference hash.

You should avoid using git rebase on commits that have been pushed publicly to avoid rewriting shared history and causing conflicts for collaborators. It is best used for local history cleanup before submitting a pull request to ensure a clean project history.