Chapter 5. Collaborative Development with Git

Previous chapters, Chapter 3, Developing with Git, and Chapter 4, Managing Your Worktree, taught you how to make a new contributions to a project, but limited it to affecting only your own clone of the project's repository. The former chapter described how to commit new revisions, while the latter showed how Git can help you prepare it.

This chapter will present a bird's-eye view of various ways to collaborate, showing centralized and distributed workflows. It will focus on the repository-level interactions in collaborative development, while the set-up of branches will be covered in the next chapter, Chapter 6, Advanced Branching Techniques.

This chapter will describe different collaborative workflows, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of each. You will also learn here the chain of trust concept, and how to use signed tags, signed merges, and signed commits.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Centralized...