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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

Two sides of Git: plumbing and porcelain


Irrespective of the number of features highlighted in the sales brochure for your swanky new car, it has to have a user friendly interface through which you can really appreciate and enjoy the finer things it has to offer. Though the core work is done inside, the interface outside serves as an enabler.

Similarly Git works on both the inner and outer levels with the following commands:

  • Plumbing commands: These commands take care of the low level operations, which form the fundamental base on which Git is built

  • Porcelain commands: These are the ones that cover the underlying plumbing operations at a high level with easy and appealing names for end users

The commands that we have learned in earlier chapters are of the porcelain type. Let's look behind the scenes for each one of them.