Git commands that could break/rewrite the history

Question

Can you provide a list of (all, or the most common) the operations or commands that can compromise the history in git?

What should be absolutely avoided?

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Answer 1

Off the top of my head:

• git commit --amend will re-write the previous commit
• git rebase can rewrite multiple commits (rebase is also called when using git pull with the --rebase flag or the branch.$name.rebase config option)
• git filter-branch can rewrite multiple commits
• git push -f can change the commit a branch points to (same goes for the git push origin +branch syntax)
• git reset can change the commit a branch points to
• git branch -f can change the commit a branch points to (by recreating a branch with the same name)
• git checkout -B can change the commit a branch points to (by recreating a branch with the same name)