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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

Git init


What you know is that this command creates a new subdirectory named .git, which is the source of versioning. Let's move one step further and explore the contents of the .git directory, which should have a directory structure as shown in the following screenshot:

Hooks

Hooks are customization scripts that can be injected into various Git commands and its operations. It is possible to write our own hook and such a hook has to go into this directory.

There are a bunch of sample hooks automatically created inside this directory as part of git init but not activated until we manually rename hook_name.sample to hook_name. To learn more about the various hooks present in the directory open up the help document by typing git help hooks in your command line.

Info

Additional information about the repository is recorded in this directory. Presently the only file inside would be the one called exclude. This file serves as a master list of the files to be excluded from being tracked by Git...