Hey David, here's what my experience says:

1. Always use branches: one branch for each task
2. Group your branches as features, hotfixes etc: e.g. feature/twitter-login, hotfix/homepage-translation
3. Commit early and often
4. Use concise and clear commit messages
5. Merge your main branch into your working regularly to get latest udpdates (applies when working in a team, helps avoiding huge merge conflicts)
6. Learn how to rebase
7. Never rebase collaborative branches, only a branch on which only you are working
8. Learn enough git to be dangerous
9. Follow a workflow consistently

Only one thing:

• GitKraken

This lab helped me a lot in learning git basics.