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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

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  1. Creating a new commit makes a new node in the graph of revisions that has a previous commit as a parent, advances the branch head ref for the current branch to the freshly created node, and keeps HEAD unchanged.
  2. The git commit operation creates the new commit out of the staging area contents, while the git commit --all creates it out of the changes to all tracked files.
  3. You can use git status to examine what files have changed and git diff or git diff HEAD to examine the changes. You can find the explanation of how to undo changes you have made in the full git status output.
  4. To change the commit message (that is, the description of the changes) of the last commit, you can use git commit --amend.
  5. Because uncommitted changes do not belong to a branch, you can simply create a new branch and switch to it with git switch -c <branch-name> or git checkout -b <branch-name>.
  6. To switch to the previous...
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