git-advanced-workflows

Interactive rebase lets you squash, reword, and reorder commits into a clean history. Run `git rebase -i` on your feature branch to pick, squash, or fixup commits before merging into main, eliminating intermediate work-in-progress commits.

Cherry-picking extracts individual commits and applies them to your current branch without merging the entire branch history. Use `git cherry-pick <commit-hash>` to port targeted changes across branches while maintaining a linear workflow.

Git bisect automates the process of locating a bug-introducing commit by binary search. Run `git bisect start`, mark known good and bad commits, then test incrementally narrowed ranges until the culprit commit is identified.

Force-with-lease (`git push --force-with-lease`) safely rewrites history by checking the remote hasn't changed since your last fetch, preventing accidental overwrites of collaborators' commits while allowing your local rewrites.

Reflog maintains a history of all branch movements and commits you've checked out. Use `git reflog` to find lost commits and `git reset --hard <ref>` to restore them, even after destructive operations like rebase or reset.

Rebase rewrites history into a linear sequence ideal for feature branches before integration, preserving readability. Use rebase on local branches before pushing; use merge for shared branches to preserve collaboration history and avoid conflicts for teammates.