Git Rebase vs Merge, Actually Explained
Rebase rewrites history. Merge preserves it. The choice depends on what you want your log to look like in two years.
Rebase, cherry-pick, bisect, reflog — the workflows working developers actually use.
Rebase rewrites history. Merge preserves it. The choice depends on what you want your log to look like in two years.
Squash, fixup, reword, drop, edit. Five commands turn messy history into reviewable commits.
Bisect finds the commit that broke your code in log2(N) steps. Most devs never use it. They should.
Nothing is ever truly lost in Git for 90 days. reflog is the receipt.
Worktrees let you check out multiple branches at once into different directories. Stop stashing.