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Git Version Control Cookbook

You're reading from   Git Version Control Cookbook Leverage version control to transform your development workflow and boost productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789137545
Length 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Aske Olsson Aske Olsson
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Kenneth Geisshirt Kenneth Geisshirt
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Navigating Git FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration 3. Branching, Merging, and Options 4. Rebasing Regularly and Interactively, and Other Use Cases 5. Storing Additional Information in Your Repository 6. Extracting Data from the Repository 7. Enhancing Your Daily Work with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts 8. Recovering from Mistakes 9. Repository Maintenance 10. Patching and Offline Sharing 11. Tips and Tricks 12. Git Providers, Integrations, and Clients 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Autocompletion


Git comes with built-in support for the autocompletion of Git commands for the bash and zsh shells. If you use either of these shells, you can enable the autocompletion feature and let the <tab> option help you complete commands.

Getting ready

Generally, the autocompletion feature is distributed with the Git installation, but it is not enabled by default on all platforms or distributions. To enable it, we need to find the git-completion.bash file distributed/installed with the Git installation.

Linux

For Linux users, the location may vary depending on the distribution. Generally, the file can be found at /etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash.

Mac

For Mac users, it can generally be found at /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/share/git-core/git-completion.bash.

If you installed Git from Homebrew, it can be found at /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.15.0/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash.

Windows

With the Msysgit installation on Windows, the completion functions are already...

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