The Git Commands I Avoided for 9 Years (and Why I Wish I Hadn't)
summary
Avoids nine years of anxiety about branch juggling by actually showing that git worktree lets two live previews run side‑by‑side, demonstrates how a mistaken reset is recovered with git reflog (commits remain on disk), and replaces repeated conflict fixes with stacked PR maintenance using git rerere / update-refs. The demo repo All Caps as a service gets built, the workflows run, and the commands prove practical — worktrees become daily tools and reflog rescues real lost hours.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Why avoid deep Git learning
- 3:53Git workflow in 2025
- 4:56Demo setup for All Caps
- 7:10Parallel work with Git worktrees
- 13:54Git reflog for lost commits
- 20:37Stacked branches with rebase update-refs
- 26:19Git alternatives
- 28:47Key takeaways
- 29:07Q&A
