diff --git a/docs/getting-started/contributing/developer-tips.md b/docs/getting-started/contributing/developer-tips.md
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Hypha developer tips
 
-## Git config
+## Git configuration and commands
 
 To avoid spurious merge commits use a rebase workflow when appropriate.
 
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ git fetch origin
 git rebase origin/main
 ```
 
+To update the feature branch on GitHub you then need to do a forced push. Instead of `--force` use `--force-with-lease`. If someone have made changes to the branch that you do not have locally you get a warning. It is a good habit to always use `--force-with-lease`. One day it will save you from a bad mistake.
+
+```shell
+git push --force-with-lease
+```
+
 ## Postgres snapshots/restore
 
 Hypha dev requirements contain the [dslr](https://github.com/mixxorz/DSLR) tool. Use this for fast snapshots and restores of the postgres database.
@@ -68,3 +74,58 @@ If you editor does not a Language Server Protocol (LSP) preinstalled make sure t
 
 Your editor most likely have plugins for the other languages Hypha uses as well, css/scss, yaml and html. We recoment to install them as well.
 
+## Shell configuration
+
+In the shell you can press the up arrow to see earlier (history) commands. It is possible to bind this to history search.
+
+You can then e.g. write `git` and then press the upp arrow and see the commands from your history that start with `git`. So useful and intuitive that it should be the default.
+
+For zsh:
+
+```shell
+# Settings for history function
+HISTFILE=$ZDOTDIR/.zsh_history
+HISTSIZE=75000
+SAVEHIST=70000
+setopt append_history
+setopt extended_history
+setopt hist_expire_dups_first
+setopt hist_ignore_dups
+setopt hist_ignore_space
+setopt hist_reduce_blanks
+setopt hist_verify
+setopt inc_append_history
+setopt share_history
+autoload -Uz up-line-or-beginning-search
+autoload -Uz down-line-or-beginning-search
+zle -N up-line-or-beginning-search
+zle -N down-line-or-beginning-search
+
+# Bind up/down arrows to history search.
+if [[ $OSTYPE == darwin* ]]; then
+  bindkey '\e[A' up-line-or-beginning-search
+  bindkey '\e[B' down-line-or-beginning-search
+else
+  bindkey "${terminfo[kcuu1]}" up-line-or-beginning-search
+  bindkey "${terminfo[kcud1]}" down-line-or-beginning-search
+fi
+```
+
+For bash:
+
+```shell
+# Settings for history function
+export HISTFILESIZE=50000
+export HISTSIZE=50000
+export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
+export HISTIGNORE='\&:e:c:l:ca:cd:cd -'
+
+# Make history work well with multiple shells
+# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
+shopt -s histappend
+
+# Bind up/down arrow to history search
+bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'
+bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'
+```
+