Git is hard, but we need to handle it

Here are some bad situations I’ve gotten myself into, and how I eventually got myself out of them in plain english.

Date Title Reading Time
2026-10-23 OGG… What’s the difference between hoge/ and /hoge/ in .gitignore? 4 min
2026-09-11 OGG… What’s the difference between git grep, git grep --cached, and git grep HEAD? 6 min
2026-09-08 OGG… How do I find which commits added or removed a string? 12 min
2026-09-07 OGG… Cannot Update GitHub CLI in Ubuntu? 4 min
2026-08-28 OGG… Is there a git find for searching files by name? 9 min
2026-08-21 OGG… How do I pull with local changes and take back only part of my stash? 15 min
2026-07-24 OGG… How do I push a local repo into my monorepo as a new independent branch? 9 min
2026-05-31 OGG… What is a git pathspec and how do I use its magic signatures? 8 min
2026-05-23 OGG… What branch strategy should a small solo project actually use? 11 min
2026-05-21 OGG… Why does poetry add fail through a SOCKS5h proxy when git clone works? 6 min
2026-05-18 OGG… How do I git clone a private GitLab through a jump server? 9 min
2026-05-15 OGG… What’s the difference between git diff, git diff --cached, and git diff HEAD? 5 min
2026-05-14 OGG… Why doesn’t git diff show untracked files and how do I fix it? 8 min
2026-05-12 OGG… How do I git add only files matching a pattern? 6 min
2026-05-10 OGG… What principles guide an effective code review? 4 min
2025-09-14 OGG… What kind of Git branch naming convention is commonly used?? 4 min
2025-08-06 OGG git cheatsheet 19 min
2025-08-05 OGG… How Can I restore a file from specific commit? 2 min
2025-08-04 OGG… How do you git sparse-checkout a specific directory? 6 min
2025-06-14 OGG… What’s difference between git reset –hard vs –mixed vs –soft? 3 min
2025-06-13 OGG… How to unstage files in Git? 2 min
2025-06-06 OGG… How do I consolidate multiple temporary commits into a single meaningful one? 4 min
2025-06-05 OGG… How do I manage config and secret information in Git? 4 min
2025-05-23 OGG… How do I switch the connection method for git push from HTTPS to SSH?? 1 min
2024-12-17 OGG… How can I set up ssh connection to GitHub repository? 3 min
2024-12-04 OGG… How can I modify the GitHub repository name? 3 min
2024-11-06 OGG… How do I check unstaged differences with the latest commit? 4 min
2024-11-05 OGG… Should I use git rebase? 12 min
2024-11-01 OGG… How can I push my repository to githab and gitlab remote at once? 3 min
2024-10-31 OGG… I just want to push a local git branch to a remote with a different name… 3 min
2024-07-26 OGG… I just want to save the current repository into another remote… 2 min
2024-07-18 OGG… I cannot push to remote branch and cannot pull the remote changes… 5 min
2024-07-13 OGG… I accidentally named the branch the wrong name… 1 min
2024-07-12 OGG… I accidentally committed something to main that should have been on a brand new branch! 2 min
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