Git is the backbone of modern software development — but mastering real-world workflows goes far beyond basic commits and pulls. This session dives deep into how Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code streamline the Git experience while still giving you full control over advanced operations and branching strategies. We’ll start with the everyday developer workflow: staging, committing, branching, merging, and synchronizing repositories directly inside the IDE. From there, we’ll tackle the challenges that arise in real projects — merge conflicts, rebase vs. merge, squash commits, and rewriting history when sensitive data accidentally enters your repository. You’ll see how Visual Studio’s graphical interface, combined with Git Bash and posh-git, provides the flexibility of the command line without losing the visual context developers rely on. The session concludes with branching and release management practices in Azure DevOps, demonstrating how to align Git workflows with CI/CD pipelines for clean, auditable, and collaborative development. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for keeping Git repositories clean, secure, and consistent, and a clear understanding of how to manage even complex workflows efficiently using Visual Studio, VS Code, and Azure DevOps.