Three useful Git commands you might not know

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Git stash only particular files

git stash push <file_name>

The above command will stash only the particular files you mention. Other files are untouched.

You can also mention multiple file paths

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List all branches ordered by most recent commits

git branch --sort=committerdate

The above command will list branches in order of the most recent commits. So you can see the branches you have been using most recently.

It is a very helpful command that comes in handy when working with multiple branches.

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Cleaning up the git repo

git remote prune origin && git repack && git prune-packed && git reflog expire --expire=1.month.ago && git gc --aggressive

git remote prune origin - Deletes all the local references of the remote branch

git repack - Packs are internal parts of Git. This command helps you to create a new pack and so reducing disk sizes

git prune-packed - Deletes extra objects present in the Git packs

git reflog expire - The above command will remove all refs that are older than one month

git gc - This command runs Git garbage collection that helps deletes extra data

You can have it as an alias and run it weekly once to have a clean repo.

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That’s it for today.

See you next week :)