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Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks
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The Git command is powerful, and provides many niceties for quick navigation. In this section, we'll cover some tips for speeding up our Git command-line usage.
Similar to our tip from the previous chapter, the hyphen character can be used as a quick shortcut for toggling between our two most recent Git branches:
Figure 10.8 – Using "git checkout -" to quickly switch between branches
This is useful when working on a feature branch, as we can switch back and forth between branches without having to type any branch names!
Ever typed git chekcout instead of git checkout, or git stauts instead of git status? Git has an autocorrect mode, where, following a configurable timeout, it will automatically run the closest command to what we typed. If there's more than one possible interpretation, it will not run anything...