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Git Workflow

jezweb/claude-skills

Helps you pick and run the exact git commands needed to change a repository’s commit graph - it inspects the real commit history and file diffs and outputs step-by-step command sequences (rebase, merge, cherry-pick, reset) plus conflict-resolution hints. Unlike similarly named guides that explain branching models or commit conventions, this tool operates on a live repo and focuses on concrete history edits; it does not prescribe team policies or enforce commit-message formats.

3 other skills are also called Git Workflow

Same name, different author, different job. If more than one is installed, the one that runs is whichever the agent matches first.

A situation it fits

A contractor handed back a branch with eleven months on it, and buried in the middle they added a 400MB vendor folder and then took it out again. Our team already agreed how we want the branch to look before it goes up for review - what nobody can work out is what to actually type to get this particular branch there, given the state it is in.
Git Workflow. git-workflow-jezweb is correct because it starts from the repository in front of you: it looks at what is actually there and works out the specific steps for that situation, which is what you need when the plan is already settled and the only open question is execution on one awkward branch. The most tempting wrong answer is git-workflow-ruvnet - it genuinely does operate on the repository rather than just advise, so it feels like the practical pick. Its trap is that it applies a process you have chosen in advance, uniformly; it is built for making many repositories behave the same way, not for reasoning about one repository's specific mess. git-workflow-affaan-m would help you decide the policy, but you have already decided it. git-workflow-mindrally governs how commits are named and sequenced, which does nothing about a large file already sitting in the middle of the branch.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Git Workflow, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Every comparison with Git Workflow

Knowing what Git Workflow does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Git Workflow is part of jezweb/claude-skills. Licence: MIT. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.