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Git Essentials

Git Essentials

By : Santacroce
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Git Essentials

Git Essentials

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Overview of this book

If you are a software developer with little or no experience of versioning systems, or are familiar with other centralized versioning systems, then this book is for you. If you have some experience working with command lines or using Linux admin or just using Unix and want to know more about Git, then this book is ideal for you.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Getting Started with Git
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Getting Started with Git
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Foreword to the second edition
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Installing Git
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Running our first Git command
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Summary
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Git Fundamentals - Working Locally
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Git Fundamentals - Working Locally
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Digging into Git internals
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Git objects
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Even deeper - the Git storage object model
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Git doesn't use deltas
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Wrapping up
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Git references
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Staging area, working tree, and HEAD commit
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Rebasing
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Merging branches
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Cherry picking
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Git Fundamentals - Working Remotely
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Git Fundamentals - Working Remotely
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Working with remotes
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Working with a public server on GitHub
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Git Fundamentals - Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands
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Git Fundamentals - Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands
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Dissecting Git configuration
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Git aliases
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Useful techniques
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Tricks
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Obtaining the Most - Good Commits and Workflows
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Obtaining the Most - Good Commits and Workflows
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The art of committing
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Adopting a workflow - a wise act
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Migrating to Git
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Migrating to Git
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Before starting
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Working on a Subversion repository using Git
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Using Git with a Subversion repository
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Migrating a Subversion repository
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Comparing Git and Subversion commands
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Git Resources
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Git Resources
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Git GUI clients
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Building up a personal Git server with web interface
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Learning Git in a visual manner
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Git on the internet
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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:

Viewing the history

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...

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