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Mastering Git

You're reading from   Mastering Git Attain expert-level proficiency with Git by mastering distributed version control features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835086070
Length 444 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jakub Narębski Jakub Narębski
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 - Exploring Project History and Managing Your Own Work
2. Chapter 1: Git Basics in Practice FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Developing with Git 4. Chapter 3: Managing Your Worktrees 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Project History 6. Chapter 5: Searching Through the Repository 7. Part 2 - Working with Other Developers
8. Chapter 6: Collaborative Development with Git 9. Chapter 7: Publishing Your Changes 10. Chapter 8: Advanced Branching Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Merging Changes Together 12. Chapter 10: Keeping History Clean 13. Part 3 - Managing, Configuring, and Extending Git
14. Chapter 11: Managing Subprojects 15. Chapter 12: Managing Large Repositories 16. Chapter 13: Customizing and Extending Git 17. Chapter 14: Git Administration 18. Chapter 15: Git Best Practices 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

A brief introduction to version control and Git

A version control system (sometimes called revision control) is a tool that lets you track the history and attribution of your project files over time (stored in a repository) and helps the developers in the team to work together. Modern version control systems give each developer their own sandbox, preventing their work in progress from conflicting, and all the while providing a mechanism to merge changes and synchronize work. They also allow us to switch between different lines of development, called branches; this mechanism allows the developer to change, for example, from working on introducing a new feature step by step to fixing the bug in an older, released version of the project.

Distributed version control systems (such as Git) give each developer their own copy of the project’s history, which is called a clone of a repository. This is what makes Git fast, because nearly all operations are performed locally. It is also...

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