Series

Git in Production: A Practical Guide for Developers

Most Git problems come from not knowing what a command will do before you run it. This series starts with how Git works underneath, covering the working tree, the staging area, commits and branches, and then builds up to the situations developers face on real teams. You'll learn how to branch and merge cleanly, rewrite history safely with rebase, undo mistakes and recover lost work, choose a team branching strategy, track down bugs with bisect, automate checks with hooks and CI/CD, and remove leaked secrets or large files from a repository. Every part uses commands you can run in a scratch repository and explains why they work, so you can fix problems yourself instead of copying commands you don't understand.

6 parts · about 40 min to read

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Git Staging Area Explained: How Git Really Works

Most Git trouble isn't a memory problem. People know the commands, but they can't predict what a command will do, so the first unexpected output sends them searching for a...

Dasun Kalupahana October 7, 2026 7 min read
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Git Commit Best Practices: add -p, Messages & .gitignore

Most Git commit best practices come down to one habit: decide what goes into a commit before you type git commit, not after. Part 1 explained that the staging area...

Dasun Kalupahana October 8, 2026 8 min read
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Git Merge Conflicts: Branching, Merging & How to Resolve

Git merge conflicts feel like a failure the first time they happen, but they are Git declining to guess. Two branches changed the same lines in different ways, and a...

Dasun Kalupahana October 10, 2026 6 min read
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Git Rebase Explained: Rewrite History Without Breaking It

Git rebase is the command people are told both to love and to fear, and both reactions come from the same fact: it rewrites history. Used on your own unpushed...

Dasun Kalupahana October 10, 2026 7 min read
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Git Undo Commit: Reset, Revert and Reflog Recovery

Knowing how to git undo a commit is mostly knowing which of three different commands matches your situation: git reset moves your branch back, git revert adds a new commit...

Dasun Kalupahana October 11, 2026 6 min read
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Git Stash, Cherry-Pick and Worktrees: When to Use Each

Git stash, cherry-pick and worktrees all solve the same everyday interruption: you are in the middle of something, and something else needs your attention right now. A production bug lands...

Dasun Kalupahana October 11, 2026 6 min read

Git Staging Area Explained: How Git Really Works

Git Commit Best Practices: add -p, Messages & .gitignore

Git Merge Conflicts: Branching, Merging & How to Resolve

Git Rebase Explained: Rewrite History Without Breaking It

Git Undo Commit: Reset, Revert and Reflog Recovery

Git Stash, Cherry-Pick and Worktrees: When to Use Each