10 Git Commands That Will Make Your Team Think You Are a Wizard

Most developers know git commit , git push , and git pull . That covers maybe 20% of what Git can do. The other 80% is where the real power lives — and most teams never touch it. I have been using Git for years, and I still discover commands that make me stop and think: "Why did I not know this sooner?" This article collects 10 of those commands. Some will save you hours. Some will save your project. All of them are worth knowing. 1. git bisect — Find the Commit That Broke Everything You push to production. Something breaks. You have 200 commits since the last known-good state. How do you find the culprit? Binary search. git bisect start git bisect bad # current commit is broken git bisect good v2.1.0 # last known good tag or commit hash Git will checkout the middle commit. You test it. You tell Git if it is good or bad: git bisect good # or: git bisect bad Repeat until Git prints: abc1234 is the first bad commit . You just found your bug in O(log n) steps instead of O(n). When done: g