Once you’ve mastered the basics of Git, there’s a whole world of advanced features that can dramatically improve your development workflow.

In this unit, we’ll explore powerful Git techniques that go beyond simple commits and branches. You’ll learn how to:

• Manage remote repositories effectively
• Clean up your commit history with squashing
• Choose between rebasing and merging
• Use git bisect to track down bugs
• Work with multiple branches simultaneously using worktrees
• Incorporate external repositories with submodules
• Understand and recover from detached HEAD state
• Keep secrets out of your repositories
• Implement professional Git workflows

These advanced techniques are essential for working on large projects, collaborating with teams, and maintaining clean, understandable commit histories.

Whether you’re working solo or as part of a team, mastering these concepts will make you a more effective developer and help you avoid common pitfalls that can cost hours of debugging time.

Lessons in this unit: