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5 Useful Tricks You Didn't Know for Git

• blakesterz 7y ago
  Those are pretty handy! I use git every single day, and have for about 6 or 7 years now. I still don't feel like I understand it well. I'm no expert, there's a million things it does I don't use, I screw something up and can't figure out how to undue (Why can't I just command-z?), but somehow it's one of the most important parts of my job. I can't imagine going back to CVS. Docker's the same way, but I feel even more ignorant when I start digging in there. I mean I get it, but it still seems mostly like magic most of the time.
• jsight 7y ago
  That last tip is really fantastic. I've often sort-of improvised it with git blame, but this is really what I've been looking for.
  • tonatiuh 7y ago
    Glad it helped you!
• Zren 7y ago
  Hmm, don't really need the date. Git has `--oneline` to print things condense, though I guess you wanted an example of custom formatting. * acfb7b0 (HEAD -> master) local commit not pushed * e79a979 (origin/master) Merge pull request #1 from OtherDude/master |\ | * 38c5e19 Updated translation status |/ * 014d564 (tag: v65) tabify I use `lg` for this, and `lga` to print all branches. `ff` to pull the latest stuff. [alias] lg = log --oneline --graph lga = log --oneline --graph --all ff = pull --ff-only origin master