Preface

Git is a decentralized versioning system that was created by Linus Torvalds (also the creator of Linux Kernel) under the GNU license. It was developed to be simple and efficient. Its aim is to manage the content evolution of a file tree.

This book is an easy-to-follow guide to understand the basic to the deepest levels of Git's abilities. As a Git user (beginner or experienced), you will face some basic questions, such as: how do you find the code you changed just a few weeks ago? Is it possible to work with other team members using Git? In case of conflict, how can I resolve it?

Git Best Practices Guide will help you to answer these questions by increasing your skills on Git (learning a practical way to use Git commands with examples).

If you are an SVN user, we will also see how it is possible to easily migrate an SVN repository to Git with a step-by-step guide.

Starting with the basics of Git, this book will lead you to the advanced features, making you more self confident when there are merge conflicts or issues while finding content.

The last part of this book will teach you how to improve your workflow using Git. More and more companies or team members use Agile as a workflow process, leaving behind old-fashioned processes such as waterfall, cascade, iterative enhancement, and so on. As a versioning system, Git has to be a part of this process. In this book, we will see how to take your workflow to another level by creating an efficient branching system, using Continuous Integration, and discovering repository managers.