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overview-manual: add a few more basic Git commands

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Robert P. J. Day May 12, 2026, 11 a.m. UTC 
To the Git basic commands section, add:

  - git grep
  - git clean
  - git reset

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

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diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/development-environment.rst b/documentation/overview-manual/development-environment.rst
index 7408a4c62..fc347f8b5 100644
--- a/documentation/overview-manual/development-environment.rst
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@@ -568,10 +568,20 @@  descriptions and strategies on how to use these commands:
    This report lists all commits regardless of whether you have pushed
    them upstream or not.

+-  *git grep:* Looks for specified patterns in the tracked files in the
+   working tree, blobs registered in the working tree, or blobs in given
+   tree objects.
+
 -  *git diff:* Displays line-by-line differences between a local
    working file and the same file as understood by Git. This command is
    useful to see what you have changed in any given file.

+-  *git clean:* Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files
+   that are not under version control, starting from the current
+   directory.
+
+-  *git reset:* Resets the current HEAD to the specified state.
+
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