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15 Git tips to improve your workflow

Apr 7, 2020Suri Patel
15 Git tips to improve your workflow
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This post provides 15 practical tips for improving Git workflows. It covers creating Git aliases for common commands (`checkout`, `commit`, `branch`), visualizing repository status in the terminal prompt, comparing commits using `git diff` and `git difftool`, stashing uncommitted changes with `git stash`, the importance of frequent pulling to avoid conflicts, enabling command autocompletion, setting up a global `.gitignore` file, enabling Git's `autosquash` feature, automatically deleting local branches removed from remote on fetch/pull, using `git blame` more efficiently with flags, adding an alias to check out merge requests locally, using `@` as an alias for `HEAD`, resetting files with `git reset` and `git checkout`, utilizing the `git-open` plugin to visit repository websites, and exploring the `git-extras` plugin for additional commands.

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