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Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet
(programming.dev)
Git cheat sheets are a dime-a-dozen but I think this one is awfully concise for its scope.
- Visually covers branching (WITH the commands -- rebasing the current branch can be confusing for the unfamiliar)
- Covers reflog
- Literally almost identical to how I use git (most sheets are either Too Much or Too Little)
The only time I see a rebase fail is due to a conflict. Which can be aborted with
git rebase --abortno need for reflogs unless you really mess things up.I'll admit that in 10 years using git, I don't think I've ever used reflog once.
It can be nice when you successfully do a rebase (after resolving conflicts), but change your mind about the resolution and want to redo it.
Doesn't come up that much, but it's been handy once or twice, for me. It's also just nice security: no matter how I edit commits, I can always go back if I need to.
Maybe you resolved the conflict in the wrong way and want to restart after finishing the rebase.
Not sure I would say that is a rebase failing - just you messing things up. Can happen with any merge. But yeah that is a place where reflog would be useful. But I dont see why it would be on the cheat sheet instead of a
git rebase --abortor be rebase specific.