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Mastering Git

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Mastering Git

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Overview of this book

Git is one of the most popular types of Source Code Management (SCM) and Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). Despite the powerful and versatile nature of the tool enveloping strong support for nonlinear development and the ability to handle large projects efficiently, it is a complex tool and often regarded as “user-unfriendly”. Getting to know the ideas and concepts behind the architecture of Git will help you make full use of its power and understand its behavior. Learning the best practices and recommended workflows should help you to avoid problems and ensure trouble-free development. The book scope is meticulously designed to help you gain deeper insights into Git's architecture, its underlying concepts, behavior, and best practices. Mastering Git starts with a quick implementation example of using Git for a collaborative development of a sample project to establish the foundation knowledge of Git operational tasks and concepts. Furthermore, as you progress through the book, the tutorials provide detailed descriptions of various areas of usage: from archaeology, through managing your own work, to working with other developers. This book also helps augment your understanding to examine and explore project history, create and manage your contributions, set up repositories and branches for collaboration in centralized and distributed version control, integrate work from other developers, customize and extend Git, and recover from repository errors. By exploring advanced Git practices, you will attain a deeper understanding of Git’s behavior, allowing you to customize and extend existing recipes and write your own.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Git
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Interacting with branches in remote repositories


We see that having many branches in a single repository is very useful. Easy branching and merging allows for powerful development models, which are utilizing advanced branching techniques, such as topic branches. This means that remote repositories will also contain many branches. Therefore, we have to go beyond just the repository to the repository interaction, which was described in Chapter 5, Collaborative Development with Git. We have to consider how to interact with multiple branches in the remote repositories.

We also need to think about how many local branches in our repository relate to the branches in the remote repositories (or, in general, other refs). The other important knowledge is how the tags in the local repository relate to the tags in other repositories.

Understanding the interaction between repositories, the branches in these repositories, and how merge changes (in Chapter 7, Merging Changes Together) is required to truly...