Only commit some of my currently modified files into the repository

Make my git log look pretty and readable

Move some commits to a separate branch that I have accidentally committed to master

Update my feature branch with the latest changes from master

Push a rebased local branch by using `--force-with-lease`

Polish my git feature branch before merging or submitting for review

Automate the cleanup of my feature branch with Git Autosquash

Squash all of my commits into a single one and merge into master

Change the commit message of my last commit

Add a file I’ve forgotten to add to my last commit

Undo my last commit and split it into two separate ones

Wipe a commit from my local branch

Undo a commit that has already been pushed to the remote repository

Temporarily store some work in progress because I have to jump to another branch

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Productive Git for Developers

If you want to permanently remove  a commit from your branch we can use the `git reset` feature. Let’s have a look.

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Instructor: [00:00] In our local repository here, we have different kind of commits. You can see here, this is the point which has already been synchronized with a remote repository. We have two further commits added on top of them.

[00:13] Let's assume that we committed them, but we changed our mind and we actually want to completely discard them. What we can do is we can copy here the ID of that commit to which we want to return.

[00:25] The important part here is don't return before the things that have been synchronized with the remote repository.

[00:32] We can use the git reset command --hard, and then basically use that commit ID. What will happen, if we execute that, and then do a git log again, is that we will now see that the first two commits have been discarded and we have jumped back to the point to which we have synchronized with the remote repository.

[00:53] Note that the --hard command here also changes your local working directory to make it point to exact the same commit. If you had unsynchronized changes or uncommitted changes still pending in your local workspace, those would be discarded.

[01:09] To avoid that, simply remove that --hard.

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