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Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Kenneth Geisshirt, Emanuele Zattin(EUR), Aske Olsson, Rasmus Voss
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Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Kenneth Geisshirt, Emanuele Zattin(EUR), Aske Olsson, Rasmus Voss

Overview of this book

Git is one of the most popular tools for versioning. With over 100 practical, self-contained tutorials, this updated version of the bestselling Git Version Control Cookbook examines the common pain points and best practices to help you solve problems related to versioning. Each recipe addresses a specific problem and offers a proven, best-practice solution with insights into how it works. You’ll get started by learning about the Git data model and how it stores files, along with gaining insights on how to commit changes to a database. Using simple commands, you’ll also understand how to navigate through the database. Once you have accustomed yourself to the basics, you’ll explore techniques to configure Git with the help of comprehensive examples and configuration targets. Further into the book, you’ll get up to speed with branches and recovery from mistakes. You’ll also discover the features of Git rebase and how to use regular Git to merge other branches. The later chapters will guide you in exploring Git notes and learning to utilize the update, list, and search commands. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll focus on repository maintenance, patching, and offline sharing. By the end of this book, you’ll have grasped various tips and tricks, and have a practical understanding of best-practice solutions for common problems related to versioning.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


It is possible to host your own Git installation and maintain a central server for your organization. If you are a small company or an open source project, maintaining such an infrastructure can be a burden. But today, there exists a number of Git providers who can lift the burden.

GitHub is the best-known Git provider with 40 million users. Many high-profiled open source projects are hosted by GitHub. Once you have created an account at GitHub, you can explore the 85 million Git repositories currently hosted.

In modern software development, continuous integration (CI) is popular. The idea is that changes from developers are merged into the code base as soon as possible. Git's pull requests (PRs) are a way of doing so. Of course, GitHub provides a UI to create PRs and let's collaborators do code reviews. Part of a CI policy is also to run all tests automatically. Software like Jenkins can be configured to build and test for every commit.