Advanced Git Commands Every Senior Developer Should Master

Enhance Your Workflow with Essential Git Techniques for Version Control and Collaboration

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Git prevails in modern software development for version control. Mastering some advanced Git commands not only facilitates code development, but also enables code management with ease in complex scenarios.

Currently, the popular model is to create a feature branch from the main branch, complete developing on the feature branch, submit a Pull Request and finally merge the code. This article will centre around this development flow and introduce the most practical Git commands with comparisons.

git rebase or git merge

Both git rebase and git merge are commands for synchronizing the latest content from the main branch to the branch. Generally, either commands works since we only merge or rebase in branches, and generate only one commit after squash merge even though they are different in commit history: git rebase recreates the commit history and generate a clean linear history when synchronizing;