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Git Essentials

By : Ferdinando Santacroce
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Git Essentials

By: Ferdinando Santacroce

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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Git Essentials
Git Essentials
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
Foreword
Foreword
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Git
Getting Started with Git
Installing Git
Running our first Git command
Summary
2
Git Fundamentals – Working Locally
Git Fundamentals – Working Locally
Repository structure and file status life cycle
Working with repositories
Viewing the history
Taking another way – Git branching
Stashing
Summary
3
Git Fundamentals – Working Remotely
Git Fundamentals – Working Remotely
Working with remotes
Summary
4
Git Fundamentals – Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands
Git Fundamentals – Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands
Dissecting the Git configuration
Git aliases
Git references
World-wide techniques
Tricks
Summary
5
Obtaining the Most – Good Commits and Workflows
Obtaining the Most – Good Commits and Workflows
The art of committing
Adopting a workflow – a wise act
Summary
6
Migrating to Git
Migrating to Git
Before starting
Working on a Subversion repository using Git
Using Git with a Subversion repository
Migrating a Subversion repository
Comparing Git and Subversion commands
Summary
7
Git Resources
Git Resources
Git GUI clients
Building up a personal Git server with web interface
Learning Git in a visual manner
Git on the Internet
Summary
Index
Index

Viewing the history

Let's continue where we left off in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Git. Walk into C:\Repos\MyFirstRepo and start a new Bash shell using the right-click shortcut. Now, use the git log command to see the history of our repository, as shown in this screenshot:

The git log command is very useful and powerful. With this command, we can get all the commits that we did one by one, each one with its most important details. It's now time to become more familiar with them.

Anatomy of a commit

Commits are the building blocks of a repository. Every repository is nothing more than an ordered sequence of commits. If you have a math background, you have probably already identified an acyclic direct graph in it.

The commit snapshot

Every time we commit something, Git wraps all the files included in a binary blob file. This is one of the most important characteristics of Git. While other versioning systems save files one by one (perhaps using deltas), Git produces a snapshot every time you...

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