10 Git Commands That 90% of Developers Don't Know Exist

You use git add , commit , push every day. But Git has hidden power tools that can save hours of debugging, undo catastrophic mistakes, and make your workflow 10× faster. Here are 10 commands most developers never learn — but should. 1. git rebase -i HEAD~5 — Interactive Rebase Squash messy commits, reorder history, or edit commit messages before pushing. git rebase -i HEAD~5 # Opens editor with last 5 commits # Change "pick" to "squash", "reword", "edit", or "drop" 💡 Pro tip: Use fixup instead of squash to auto-discard the commit message. 2. git stash -p — Partial Stash Stash only specific hunks, not everything. Perfect when you're mid-feature but need a quick fix. git stash -p # Git asks hunk by hunk: "Stash this hunk? [y,n,q,a,d,/,s,e,?]" 💡 Pro tip: Press s to split a large hunk into smaller pieces. 3. git bisect — Binary Search for Bugs Find the exact commit that introduced a bug in O(log n) steps. git bisect start git bisect bad # Current commit is broken git bisect good v1.0.0 #