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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

Time for action – checking out using GUI mode


  1. Select the Repository menu and then the Visualize All Branch History option in the opened Git Gui screen to open gitk; you will get a screen like the following:

    Gitk is a powerful graphical repository browser allowing us to perform various kinds of operations such as visualizing the repository, tagging, resetting, and so on.

    Again, don't worry about the overwhelming information on the screen; we shall get there step-by-step.

    For now let's focus on the top-left pane, which shows a pathway in which the colored circles indicate the commits you have made; alongside the circles are your comments.

    And directly beneath it is a field called SHA1 ID, which shows you the commit ID for the commit that you have selected above. As we discussed earlier we will use this commit ID to identify a particular commit to travel back in time.

  2. Select our first commit, which says Initial commit to showcase the commit functionality of Git, to get its commit ID displayed...