Git Advanced Workflows

About

This skill empowers Claude to handle sophisticated Git maneuvers that go beyond basic commits and merges. It provides deep expertise in interactive rebasing for history cleanup, binary searching with git-bisect to locate bugs, managing multiple workspaces with worktrees, and utilizing the reflog to recover lost data. Whether you need to prepare a polished pull request or troubleshoot a repository in a broken state, this skill ensures best practices like atomic commits and safe force-pushing are followed for a more efficient version control experience.

Key Features

• 81 GitHub stars
• Multi-branch development using Git Worktrees to avoid context-switching overhead.
• Repository recovery techniques using Reflog and safe resets for lost work.
• Interactive rebase management for cleaning up and squashing commit history.
• Strategic cherry-picking for applying specific patches across multiple releases.
• Advanced troubleshooting using Git Bisect to identify bug introductions.

Use Cases

• Locating the exact commit that introduced a regression in a complex codebase using automation.
• Developing on multiple feature branches simultaneously without the need for constant stashing.
• Preparing a clean, logical commit history before submitting a pull request for review.