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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 – reset using GUI mode


  1. Select the Repository menu and then the Visualize All Branch History option on the opened Git Gui screen to open Gitk.

  2. On the top-left panel you can see how your repository history is shaping up. Right now it's linear with two commits. Now right-click on the first commit, which has the commit message Initial commit to showcase the commit functionality of Git, and choose the Reset master branch to here option, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. You will get a confirmation dialog box with three types of reset options as discussed earlier; let's select Hard and click on the OK button, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Gitk should automatically reload to show you the altered history of our repository. If it does not reload by itself we can manually do it by selecting the File | Reload option or pressing Ctrl + F5.