I’m taking this note to avoid googling them each time I wanted to use them.

Remove file from staging area

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git reset HEAD <file>

Show diff between commits

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# Show the difference between that COMMIT's ancestor and the COMMIT
git diff COMMIT^ COMMIT

# This will do something very similar
git show COMMIT

Display log elegantly in one line

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git log --graph --oneline --decorate --date=relative --all

graph enables you to view different branches
oneline will format git log into one line output
decorate adds some highlights to branch names
all helps you view all branches.

Rebase with git pull

I’d suggest you to rebase when git pull, this will prevent “Merge conflict” from happening. Honestly, I don’t like to handle conflicts manually.

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git pull --rebase

If you want to know the difference between git pull and git pull --rebase, check this: Difference between git pull and git pull –rebase. The difference between git merge and git rebase can also be found here: What’s the difference between ‘git merge’ and ‘git rebase’?.

Squash last N commits

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git rebase --interactive HEAD~N

Needless to say, it you want to squash serveral commits into one commit, this helps a lot. More detailed instructions can be found here: squashing commits with rebase.