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These are useful Git commands I keep forgetting.
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Listing branches by most recent commit:

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/

Listing branches not yet merged:

git branch --no-merged <BRANCH_NAME>

Remove a file from version control without deleting it:

git rm --cached <SOME_FILE>

Removing a file from history:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf <SOME_FILE>' HEAD
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