Git clone, git commit, git push. That’s part of the bread and butter of any developer nowadays. 

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But why stop there? Git is a much more powerful software and it would be boring to only do such. Here are 5 not so well known tricks that have saved me hours in my life as a software developer. 

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Let’s look at the 5 tricks using Watermelon’s repo as an example.

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git reflog

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Run this when you screwed everything and need a time machine

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This is the one I use the most. A lot of times you want to go back in time to when stuff worked. Sometimes you accidentally delete stuff, or merge bad code. Reflog fixes this. 

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You will see the list of all things you’ve done across branches. With reset, you will be able to go back to that moment.

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git log

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Run this when when you want to see how a file has changed throughout time

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This one is basically a movie rewind. I run this when I want to understand how a file has changed. It might be that