How to write a git commit message properly is a topic that's been broached many times. Any seasoned developer who's rifled through Git logs in a project they've just been parachuted into knows that ...

If you spend much time helping people with word processor programs, you’ll find that many people don’t really use much of the product. They type, change fonts, save, and print. But cross-references?

Git provides two similarly named components that provide insight to the repository's commit history, log and reflog. Developers access the git log and git reflog commands through the command line.