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Git Version Control Cookbook

You're reading from   Git Version Control Cookbook Leverage version control to transform your development workflow and boost productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789137545
Length 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Aske Olsson Aske Olsson
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Emanuele Zattin(EUR) Emanuele Zattin(EUR)
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Kenneth Geisshirt Kenneth Geisshirt
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Rasmus Voss Rasmus Voss
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Navigating Git FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration 3. Branching, Merging, and Options 4. Rebasing Regularly and Interactively, and Other Use Cases 5. Storing Additional Information in Your Repository 6. Extracting Data from the Repository 7. Enhancing Your Daily Work with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts 8. Recovering from Mistakes 9. Repository Maintenance 10. Patching and Offline Sharing 11. Tips and Tricks 12. Git Providers, Integrations, and Clients 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Retrieving notes from the remote repository

So far, we have been creating notes in our own local repository, which is fine. But if we want to share those notes, we have to be sure to be able to push them. We would also like to be able to retrieve other people's notes from the remote repository. Unfortunately, this is not so simple.

Getting ready

Before we can start, we need another clone from the local clone we already have. This is to show the push and fetch mechanism of Git with git notes:

  1. Start by checking out the master branch:
$ git checkout master
Checking out files: 100% (1529/1529), done.
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
  1. Now, create a local branch...
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