Use Git like a senior engineer

Git is a powerful tool that feels great to use when you know how to use it.

Jacob Bennett
Level Up Coding
Published in
4 min readNov 15, 2022

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I’ve used these features of Git for years across teams and projects. I’m still developing opinions around some workflows (like to squash or not) but the core tooling is powerful and flexible (and scriptable!).

Going through Git logs

Git logs are gross to go through out of the box.

git log is basic

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Staff Software Engineer @ Medium • https://jacob.bio • I write about software engineering, product design and development, and leadership in tech.