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Git for Programmers

You're reading from   Git for Programmers Master Git for effective implementation of version control for your programming projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075732
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Creating Your Repository FREE CHAPTER 3. Branching, Places, and GUIs 4. Merging, Pull Requests, and Handling Merge Conflicts 5. Rebasing, Amend, and Cherry-Picking 6. Interactive Rebasing 7. Workflow, Notes, and Tags 8. Aliases 9. Using the Log 10. Important Git Commands and Metadata 11. Finding a Broken Commit: Bisect and Blame 12. Fixing Mistakes 13. Next Steps
14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Challenge

In this challenge you will create a new project that you will clone to your local repository using GitHub Desktop. You will then add at least 7-8 commits. Finally, you'll use interactive rebase to squash some of your commits together. Feel free to experiment with some of the other options in interactive rebase.

For my project I'm going to create a solution that tracks the Rocky Horror Picture Show (a true classic).

Step 1, as usual, is to create the new repository:

Figure 6.21: Creating the repo

Step 2 is to clone to your disk; however, this time we'll use GitHub Desktop:

Figure 6.22: Downloading the repository with GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop will be launched:

Figure 6.23: Launching GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop will launch and pop up a modal dialog box asking you to confirm or change the repository and where you want to put it on your disk:

Figure 6.24: Cloning to GitHub Desktop

As expected, your...

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