---
title: "Mastering Git: 13 Advanced Techniques and Shortcuts for Efficiency"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/mastering-git-13-advanced-techniques-and-shortcuts-for-efficiency-ypmpuwb45
source_url: https://dev.to/anjankarmakar/mastering-git-13-advanced-techniques-and-shortcuts-for-efficiency-10d1
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2024-05-10T23:04:12.857Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:27:20.850Z
tags: ["devtools", "git", "github", "open-source", "productivity", "version-control"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 467
comments: 12
language: en
---

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# Mastering Git: 13 Advanced Techniques and Shortcuts for Efficiency

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 3 min read · 467 upvotes · 12 comments

## Summary

Learn advanced techniques and shortcuts for Git to enhance your development workflow and productivity. Topics covered include combining add and commit, creating aliases for Git commands, amending commit messages, force pushing, reverting changes, using Codespaces, stashing changes, renaming the main branch, viewing pretty logs, debugging with bisect, automating commit consolidation with autosquash, leveraging hooks for custom scripts, and safely destroying things in Git history.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@orcdev** · 16 upvotes

> When I saw the post I was wondering what is Git 13 :D

**@andrescaro16** · 5 upvotes

> Excellent post! I leave here my contribution:
>
> For improving the logs we can use: `git tree`
>
> ...after creating that alias with the command: `git config --global alias.tree "log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(magenta)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar) - %C(reset)%C(white)%s%C(reset)%C(bold blue) - %an%C(reset) %C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all --date=relative"`
>
>
> And if you would like to know more commands here you can: [github.com/andrescaro16/Comandos-Git-GitHub](https://github.com/andrescaro16/Comandos-Git-GitHub)

**@visnusah** · 2 upvotes

> An abundance of valuable information on creating aliases for git commands.

**@sergiorodrigues** · 1 upvotes

> Awesome Post! Learnt some good tricks :)

**@tonciz** · 0 upvotes

> Oh nice I'll be using ```git checkout -```, I'm usually working on 2 branches

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