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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

Practice makes perfect: branching with Git


I'm sure you have got a good idea about what, why, and when you can use branches when dealing with a Git repository. Let's fortify the understanding by creating a few use cases.

Scenario

Suppose you are the training organizer in your organization and are responsible for conducting trainings as and when needed. You are preparing a list of people who you think might need business communication skills training based on their previous records.

As a first step, you need to send an e-mail to the nominations and check their availability on the specified date, and then get approval from their respective managers to allot the resource. Having experience in doing this, you are aware that the names picked by you from the records for training can have changes even at the last minute based on situations within the team. So you want to send out the initial list for each team and then proceed with your work while the list gets finalized.