git-advanced-workflows

Git reflog recovery allows you to restore lost commits or branches after mistakes. You can use reflog operations to trace dangling commits and safely roll back your repository state to a previous working snapshot.

Interactive rebasing is the best way to squash or reorder commits for a PR-ready history. It reorganizes your commit history by applying your feature branch changes onto a target base while providing safe guidance for conflict resolution.

Git bisect automates regression isolation by binary searching through your commit history. It systematically checks out commits across feature and release branches to pinpoint the exact change that introduced the bug.

Git worktree management enables multi-feature development by attaching multiple working directories to a single repository. This allows you to work on hotfix recovery and feature branches simultaneously without redundant local clones.

Cherry-picking applies a specific commit from one branch to another without merging the entire history. It extracts the targeted changes and applies them to your current branch, with safe guidance for resolving any resulting conflicts.

You should avoid non-destructive history rewrites on shared branches that other developers actively track. Rewriting history on shared streams can cause divergent commit trees, so limit interactive rebasing to local or pre-push feature branches.