git-advanced-workflows

To clean up feature branch history, use interactive rebase to squash or reorder commits, creating a linear history. This workflow ensures your branch remains easy to review before integration into the main branch.

Git bisect finds commits that introduced bugs by performing a binary search through your repository history. It systematically checks out commits, allowing you to test and mark them as good or bad to isolate the exact source.

The best way to apply a hotfix to multiple release branches is cherry-picking. Cherry-picking applies specific commits across branches without merging entire branches, ensuring only the necessary changes are transferred.

To recover lost commits after a hard reset or bad rebase, use git reflog. Reflog tracks all ref movements in your repository, allowing you to identify and restore the exact commit hash from before the mistake.

You can work on multiple branches simultaneously without stashing changes by using git worktrees. Worktrees allow you to check out multiple branches into separate directories, enabling parallel development on different tasks.

You need to rebase instead of merging when you want to maintain a linear project history. Rebasing replays your local commits on top of the main branch, avoiding merge commits and simplifying the history review process.