Gitting Started (Part V): When Sh*t Goes South

Dana Scheider (he/they)
CodeX
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14 min readMay 21, 2021

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If you’ve been following this series up till now, you’ve learnt quite a bit of the basic functionality of Git. However, you still haven’t encountered its most compelling use case: fixing things when they go wrong. Things can go wrong in a number of ways during software development — and things do love to go wrong. In this post, I’ll introduce some Git commands you can use to fix mistakes and, if need be…

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Dana Scheider (he/they)
CodeX
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Senior Engineer at CashApp, formerly at Envato & New Relic