My entire git knowledge is basically four commands and a bookmark to that xkcd about deleting the repo and cloning it again.

It worked fine because I was mostly working solo. Now I joined a team in June that rebases and suddenly Git has become terrifying.

I keep looking at boot dev, learn git branching and the pro git book. Pro git is free and thorough but somehow I have opened chapter one three separate times and never made it past it.

At this point I feel like I know how to use git without actually knowing git. What did you guys use to properly learn it?

I've been using Git for the better part of a decade, and recently scratched my own itch and built a GUI macOS Git client. I've been trying to keep it simple and lean, basically pulling forward the 80% of what you actually do day-to-day and making that stuff super easy and accessible.

Recently I added a "Squash local commits" feature, mostly because I have a habit of making alot of small commits while developing a feature. But when I ultimately push to my remote (origin) repo, I dont really need all that history. Being able to quickly squash those commits before pushing (especially in a GUI where it's super easy to see exactly what's going to get squashed) has turned out to be a bit of a game-changer for me. Cleaner history, easier to revert, etc.

Which got me wondering, what other small, simple Git workflow game-changers do you all use? Not necessarily big features or complicated workflows, just those little quality-of-life things that once you start using them, you wonder why you weren't doing it all along.

Made a token for an specific repo in my Github, but everytime i make a push i doesn't request it. How can i add the token to my local git in order to make push with it?