--- title: 10 Advanced Git Commands | daily.dev description: Git has emerged as the standard tool for version control because of how powerful it is. It takes all of your commits from a featured branch and moves them on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/10-advanced-git-commands-p4kyadmly twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 10 Advanced Git Commands | daily.dev og:description: Git has emerged as the standard tool for version control because of how powerful it is. It takes all of your commits from a featured branch and moves them on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/10-advanced-git-commands-p4kyadmly og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/P4kYAdMLy.png og:image:alt: 10 Advanced Git Commands og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 10 Advanced Git Commands **[Earthly](https://daily.dev/sources/earthly)** · 10 min read · 251 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary Git has emerged as the standard tool for version control because of how powerful it is. It takes all of your commits from a featured branch and moves them on top of the main commit. It can also make it easier to revert changes since you can simply revert a single commit rather than dealing with the complexity of merging branches. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jimish** · 9 upvotes > Let me add few more which are essential to know > > To update remote url > `git remote set-url ` > > > To pick specific commit > `git cherry-pick ` **@mugiwara** · 5 upvotes > Few other commands that I find are quite helpful - > > 1. worktree - helps you to seamlessly switch between branches without having to stash or commit your changes. Useful when you want to work on two different requirements simultaneously. > 2. cherry-pick - helps you to cherry pick commits to another branch. Generally useful when you want to back port changes to a release branch after fixing some bug and pushing the code to master. **@dylandenny** · 1 upvotes > Happy to learn about Git Reflog, wasn't aware if it earlier **@neenadingole** · 1 upvotes > never tried `git grep` and `git clean` before, thanks for sharing **@gwiecek** · 0 upvotes > Very nice reminder. 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Useful when you want to work on two different requirements simultaneously.\ncherry-pick - helps you to cherry pick commits to another branch. 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Thanks.","datePublished":"2023-04-22T09:41:40.306Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/P4kYAdMLy#c-Be3uR8fev","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Grzegorz Więcek","url":"https://daily.dev/gwiecek","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/52357166?v=4"}}]} ```