Useful Git Commands and Tips/Tricks

Git is an amazing revision control system because it is so powerful. With this power comes complexity, however, so it's not always easy to figure out the git commands you need to run to accomplish a particular task. Over the years I have been collecting the following list of commands to which I often refer when I need to accomplish a specific task.

See a list of commits since your last push

git log origin/branch_name..

Modify all commits since the last push

git rebase -i origin/branch_name

Rename a git branch

git branch -m old_branch_name new_branch_name

Fix the last git commit (change the commit message, add more changes to the commit, or both)

git commit --amend

Show the list of files that changed in the log

git log --name-status