3 Git Commands I Use Every Day

The post describes three Git commands the author uses in everyday work. git add -p helps review changes interactively before staging, git commit --amend --no-edit keeps sequential work attached to the previous commit without changing the message, and git reset --hard removes changes that were not meant to be kept.

Reading notes

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• git add -p lets the author inspect each change and decide whether to stage it.
• The command is slower than git add ., but it serves as a final review and often catches comments or debug statements that should stay out of a commit.
• git commit --amend --no-edit is used for small incremental commits during longer stretches of work.
• The author prefers that approach to rebasing when work is being done sequentially.
• Keeping a clean state makes it easier to run other Git commands and track changes over time.
• git reset --hard is used to discard changes that were not staged or changes from exploratory work that should not be committed.
• The author says the command should be used carefully, but argues that git reflog and git fsck make Git less frightening.