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Git: Mastering Version Control

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Published in Oct 2016
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ISBN-13 9781787123205
Length 861 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ferdinando Santacroce Ferdinando Santacroce
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Aske Olsson Aske Olsson
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Jakub Narębski Jakub Narębski
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Table of Contents (36) Chapters Close

Git: Mastering Version Control
Credits
Preface
1. Getting Started with Git FREE CHAPTER 2. Git Fundamentals – Working Locally 3. Git Fundamentals – Working Remotely 4. Git Fundamentals – Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands 5. Obtaining the Most – Good Commits and Workflows 6. Migrating to Git 7. Git Resources 8. Navigating Git 9. Configuration 10. Branching, Merging, and Options 11. Rebase Regularly and Interactively, and Other Use Cases 12. Storing Additional Information in Your Repository 13. Extracting Data from the Repository 14. Enhancing Your Daily Work with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts 15. Recovering from Mistakes 16. Repository Maintenance 17. Patching and Offline Sharing 18. Git Plumbing and Attributes 19. Tips and Tricks 20. Git Basics in Practice 21. Exploring Project History 22. Developing with Git 23. Managing Your Worktree 24. Collaborative Development with Git 25. Advanced Branching Techniques 26. Merging Changes Together 27. Keeping History Clean 28. Managing Subprojects – Building a Living Framework 29. Customizing and Extending Git 30. Git Administration 31. Git Best Practices Bibliography
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned that Git is not so difficult to install, even on a non-Unix platform such as Windows.

Once you have chosen a directory to include in a Git repository, you can see that initializing a new Git repository is as easy as executing a git init command, and nothing more. Don't worry now about saving it on a remote server and so on. It's not mandatory to save it; you can do this when you need to, preserving the entire history of your repo. This is a killer feature of Git and DVCS in general. You can comfortably work offline and push your work to a remote location when the network is available, without hassle.

In the end, we discovered one of the most important character traits of Git: it will do nothing if you don't mention it explicitly. You also learned a little bit about the add command. We were obliged to perform a git add command for a file when we committed it to Git the very first time. Then, we used another command when we modified it. This is because if you modify a file, Git does not expect that you want it to be automatically added to the next commit (and it's right, I'll say).

In the next chapter, we will discover some fundamentals of Git.

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