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So git work commands

git-tricks

Some git work commands. Keep in mind if you have any question what things are doing you can run man git for the manual page of git and for example man git-commit for the manual page of git commit command.

Add changes to the last commit

If you like to add something to the last commit then you can run:

git add <your changes files>

then you can add it with the following command to the last commit:

git commit --amend --no-edit

The --amend means that we append the last commit.

The --no-edit means that we don't want edit the commit message again.

Add changes to an already existing commit, which is not the last one

1. Use git stash to store the changes you want to add.
2. Use git rebase -i HEAD~10 (or however many commits back you want to see).
3. Mark the commit for edit by changing the word pick at the start of the line into edit. Don't delete the other lines as that would delete the commits.
4. Save the rebase file, and git will drop back to the shell and wait for you to fix that commit.
5. Pop the stash by using git stash pop
6. Add your file with git add <file>.
7. Amend the commit with git commit --amend --no-edit.
8. Do a git rebase --continue which will rewrite the rest of your commits against the new one.
9. Repeat from step 2 onwards if you have marked more than one commit for edit.

Delete merged branches on local machine

git branch --merged| egrep -v "(^\*|staging)" | xargs git branch -d

• git branch --merged -> lists all merged bracnhes
• egrep -v "(^\*|staging)" -> ignore staging branch, more can be added via pipe
• xargs git branch -d -> remove every branch in the list