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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By : Ravishankar Somasundaram
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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By: Ravishankar Somasundaram

Overview of this book

<div> <div>Git – is free software which enables you to maintain different versions of single or multiple files present inside a directory(folder), and allows you to switch back and forth between them at any given point of time. It also allows multiple people to work on the same file collaboratively or in parallel, without being connected to a server or any other centralized system continuously.<br /><br />This book is a step by step, practical guide, helping you learn the routine of version controlling all your content, every day. <br /><br />If you are an average computer user who wants to be able to maintain multiple versions of files and folders, or to go back and forth in time with respect to the files content – look no further. The workflow explained in this book will benefit anyone, no matter what kind of text or documentation they work on.<br /><br />This book will also benefit developers, administrators, analysts, architects and anyone else who wishes to perform simultaneous, collaborative work, or work in parallel on the same set of files. Git's advanced features are there to make your life easier.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </div>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Git: Version Control for Everyone Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Suit up – getting ready for your Git


Let's say you have a magic wand, and it will do exactly what you order it to do! Yeah, that's right, you have Git now. You need to command Git to do what it has to do for you.

Sounds fun, right?

We already read that to maintain multiple versions of files they have to be kept inside a directory (folder), so we shall create a directory called Workbench on your desktop to learn the concepts explained in chapters hands on.

When it comes to handling computers there are people who would like to get the job done with either of the following:

  • GUI mode (graphical user interface)

  • CLI mode (command-line interface)

A combination of both can also be used. In the interest of serving a diverse audience, we shall try to cover both modes of implementation.