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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how to develop with Git and extend the project history by creating new commits and new lines of development (branches). We know what it means to create a commit, amend a commit, create a branch, switch a branch, rewind a branch, and delete a branch from the point of view of the graph of revisions.

This chapter showed a very important Git feature — the staging area for creating commits, also known as the index. This is what makes it possible to untangle the changes to the working directory by selectively and interactively choosing what to commit.

We learned how to examine the changes to the working area before creating a commit. This chapter described, in detail, the extended unified diff format that Git uses to describe the changes.

We also learned about the concept of detached HEAD (or anonymous branch) and orphan branches.

In Chapter 3, Managing Your Worktrees, we will learn how to use Git to prepare new commits and how...

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