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7/1/2026

47 Git Commands and Patterns for Daily Developer Workflow
Original: The Only Git Commands You Actually Need — 47 Patterns for Daily Work
Short summary
Comprehensive guide to 47 Git commands and patterns organized by workflow, from basic staging to disaster recovery. Covers critical best practices like interactive staging (git add -p) vs blanket staging, rebasing strategies, and recovery techniques like reflog. Includes a pre-push checklist reflecting senior developer discipline.
- •Covers 47 Git commands organized by workflow: daily commits, branching, merging, undoing mistakes, rebasing, and disaster recovery
- •Teaches critical best practices like interactive staging (git add -p) and recovery tools (reflog, fsck) that junior developers often miss
- •Includes pre-push checklist: tests passing, no debug code, rebased history, no sensitive data, conventional commit messages
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