You're reading from Mastering Git Attain expert-level proficiency with Git by mastering distributed version control features

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835086070

Length 444 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Git

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Jakub Narębski

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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DAGs

What makes VCSs different from backup applications is the ability to represent more than linear history. This is necessary both to support the simultaneous parallel development by different developers (each developer in their own clone of the repository) and to allow independent parallel lines of development – branches. For example, with a VCS, you might want to keep the ongoing development and the work on bug fixes for the stable version isolated. You can do this by using individual branches for those separate lines of development. So, the VCS needs to be able to model such a non-linear way of development and needs to have some structure to represent it.

The structure that Git uses (on the abstract level) to represent the possibly non-linear history of a project is called a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG).

The following diagram (Figure 4.1) shows an example of a DAG, drawn in two different ways. The same graph is represented on both sides of the figure: using the free...