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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

Grepping the commit messages

Now we know how to list and sort files that we make frequent changes to and vice versa, but we are also interested in finding out the bugs that we are fixing, the features that we are implementing, and perhaps who is signing the code. All this information is usually available in the commit message. Some companies have a policy that you need to have a referral to a bug, a feature, or some other reference in the commit message. By having this information in the commit message, it is a lot easier to produce a nice release note as well.

Getting ready

As we will mostly be grepping the Git database in these examples, we really don't need to check something out or be at a specific commit for this...

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