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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

Answer

As always, there is no one single correct way to do this. Here is how I worked through it.

Task #1: Set up a new repository and clone it to two different folders

Notice that we are going to use just one repository. We are building a single program, but at least at first John is going to create the calculator while Sara is going to create the temperature converter. We'll call the entire program UtilityKnife. To begin we go to GitHub.com and create our new repository:

Figure 4.29: Creating the new repository

The readme file is written using Markdown. You can learn more about Markdown at https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/ among other places on the net.

We then clone the repo into folders (or separate computers if there are two or more of you). I'll create a directory, John, and clone this repo into that directory.

Figure 4.30: Cloning from the command line

John has chosen to use the command line. Sara, on the...

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