Pushing specific branches in Git allows you to control exactly which branches are shared with remote repositories, avoiding accidental pushes of work-in-progress branches. As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of software development experience, I regularly push feature branches individually when preparing pull requests and managing multiple parallel development streams. Explicitly naming branches prevents pushing unintended changes and gives you precise control over what gets shared.

Force pushing in Git overwrites the remote repository history with your local changes, which can be necessary after operations like rebasing or amending commits. As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of software development experience, I use force push carefully when cleaning up commit history before merging feature branches. The safer approach is using --force-with-lease instead of --force to prevent accidentally overwriting other developers’ work.

A mixed reset in Git moves the HEAD pointer and resets the staging area while preserving changes in your working directory. As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of software development experience, I use mixed resets frequently to reorganize commits and unstage files while keeping my changes intact. This is the default behavior of git reset and provides a safe way to modify commit history.

A hard reset in Git completely discards all changes in your working directory and staging area, reverting everything to a specific commit state. As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of software development experience, I use hard resets carefully when I need to completely abandon current changes and return to a clean state. This operation is destructive and cannot be easily undone, so use it with caution.

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Resetting commits is crucial for cleaning up local repository history before sharing changes, allowing you to reorganize commits and remove unwanted changes. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve used git reset extensively for local history cleanup over 25 years of development. From my expertise, the most versatile approach is using git reset with different modes depending on whether you want to preserve or discard changes. This provides precise control over how commits are undone and what happens to the affected files.

Reverting commits safely is essential for undoing problematic changes in shared repositories without disrupting other developers’ work or rewriting project history. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve safely reverted countless commits in production repositories over 25 years of development. From my expertise, the safest approach is using git revert, which creates a new commit that undoes the changes from a previous commit. This maintains the integrity of the project history while effectively canceling out unwanted changes.

Undoing the last commit is crucial when you realize you made an error or committed prematurely and need to make additional changes. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve needed to undo commits countless times during development over 25 years of software engineering. From my expertise, the safest approach is using git reset --soft HEAD~1, which undoes the commit but keeps all changes staged for easy recommitment. This provides flexibility to modify files before creating a corrected commit.

Modifying the last commit is essential for fixing typos in commit messages or adding forgotten changes before pushing to shared repositories. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve amended countless commits to maintain clean project history over 25 years of development. From my expertise, the safest approach is using git commit --amend, which modifies the most recent commit without creating a new one. This keeps the commit history clean and is safe to use before pushing changes to remote repositories.