One thing that can help is using a GUI tool to view the commit history. My favorite is gitg. For cleaning up mistakes it might be helpful to look at `git reba

One thing that can help is using a GUI tool to view the commit history. My favorite is gitg. For cleaning up mistakes it might be helpful to look at `git rebase -i`. It lets you delete or reorder commits, as well as move a branch to a different starting point.