15 Git tips to improve your workflow

Celebrating Git's 15th anniversary, this text delves into various methods to enhance Git-based workflows, offering insights for both beginners and seasoned users. It highlights the importance of creating aliases for frequently used commands, utilizing git-prompt.sh for visualizing repository status, and leveraging git diff and difftool for commit comparisons. The article emphasizes efficient practices such as stashing uncommitted changes, frequently pulling updates to avoid conflicts, and using completion scripts for faster command execution. It also discusses setting up a global .gitignore, enabling autosquash for rebasing, and pruning stale branches during fetch/pull operations. Advanced tips include using Git blame with specific flags, creating aliases for checking out merge requests, and resetting files to previous states. Additionally, the text introduces plugins like git-open and git-extras to further augment Git's functionality. To commemorate the anniversary, a series of instructional videos by Brendan O'Leary is announced, covering key topics like rebasing, merging, and branching.

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