GIT-UNLOCK(1)

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✨ GIT-UNLOCK ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual for git-unlock — it's the one that unlocks a file that was excluded from version control 💅 it lives in the Git Extras collection and honestly? it's giving practical. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

git-unlock — unlock a file excluded from version control 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

git-unlock <filename>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the whole vibe here is: unlock local files from version control. that's it, that's the job, and it does it slayfully ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • <filename> — the name of the filename. yes, they really said "the name of the filename" and honestly, iconic. it's the file you're locking... unlocking. the file in question. put the filename here, bestie 🍓

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

no cap, here's how it looks in the wild:

$ git unlock config/database.yml

that's your config/database.yml getting unlocked. main character energy fr fr 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Julio Napuri <julionc@gmail.com> — absolute legend, we stan 🫶

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found something cursed? spill the tea here:

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras>

and that's the whole page, babe 💖 this was the GIT-UNLOCK(1) manual from Git Extras, dated May 2026 — go forth and unlock things responsibly, periodt 💅✨

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