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Mastering Git: Top Commands Every Developer Should Know

Syed Sadiq ali on June 02, 2023

Introduction In the world of software development, Git has become an essential tool for version control. It allows developers to collabo...
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Anthony Fung •

Great intro to Git!

For anyone on Windows, Git Extensions is a great (free) UI that's both helpful for people learning Git, and deep for those who are a bit more comfortable.

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Awesome @ant_f_dev !!

Thanks!!

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Bret Bernhoft •

If every developer had these Git commands memorized, life would be a little bit easier for everyone. This is true from users to developer managers. Thank you for the refresher, it is always good to review the basics.

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Thanks for reading !!

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Dan Bolser •

Thanks. Can you add more examples, and bake in best practice? Kthxbi

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Syed Sadiq ali •

no this time though but will write another blog about best practices.

Thanks for the suggestion;

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Taufiq Abdullah •

Nice post !

git log -1 was my favorite commands :D

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Thank you very much!!

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Triomphe-dev •

Nice post

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Thank you!!

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Prince Luah Marwiah •

Nice and straight forward 👍

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Thanks !!

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HaniBikdeli •

great post especially the git stash part which has been very useful to me

one thing though, i would also add git fetch to the list

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Bryan King Pecho •

The mention of git stash and git log is valuable. Stashing changes and examining commit history are handy features every developer should know. Thanks for sharing! 🙌

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Yup!!

I use them everyday.

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fruntend •

Сongratulations 🥳! Your article hit the top posts for the week - dev.to/fruntend/top-10-posts-for-f...
Keep it up 👍

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Syed Sadiq ali •

that's awesome!!

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Ricardo Martins •

Not to mention the commands to rollback a commit,or change the last git message. They are important too.

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Yeah, they are !! will write another blog for those.

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edurbaez •

Very useful thanks a lot!!

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Thanks for reading !!

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Rajeev Pande •

Nice concise writeup for someone using Visual Studio, to get to know the magic that happens behind the scenes

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Syed Sadiq ali •

Yup!! Thanks for reading!!