Git Intermediate Techniques

Take your Git skills to the next level to boost your efficiency with these intermediate user tricks and techniques.

Introduction

• Get more from Git
• Using the exercise files on GitHub

1. Branch Management

• Force push to a remote
• Identify merged branches
• Prune stale branches

2. Tagging

• Create and delete tags
• List tags
• Push tags to a remote

3. Interactive Staging

• Interactive mode
• Patch mode
• Split a hunk
• Edit a hunk

4. Share Select Changes

• Cherry-picking commits
• Resolve cherry-picking conflicts
• Create diff patches
• Apply diff patches
• Create formatted patches
• Apply formatted patches

5. Rebasing

• Rebase commits
• Perform a rebase
• Merging vs. rebasing
• Interactive rebasing
• Squash commits
• Pull rebase

6. Track Down Problems

• Log options
• Blame
• Bisect

Conclusion

• Next steps