This chapter is a collection of short but useful tricks to make our Git experience more comfortable. In the first three chapters, we learned all the concepts we need to take the first steps into versioning systems using the Git tool; now it's time to go a little bit in depth to discover some other powerful weapons in the Git arsenal, and how to use them (without shooting yourself in the foot, preferably).
Git Essentials - Second Edition
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Git Essentials - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
Since its inception, Git has attracted skilled developers due to its robust, powerful, and reliable features. Its incredibly fast branching ability transformed a piece of code from a niche tool for Linux Kernel developers into a mainstream distributed versioning system. Like most powerful tools, Git can be hard to approach since it has a lot of commands, subcommands, and options that easily confuse newcomers.
The 2nd edition of this very successful book will help you overcome this fear and become adept in all the basic tasks in Git. Building upon the success of the first book, we start with a brief step-by-step installation guide; after this, you'll delve into the essentials of Git. For those of you who have bought the first edition, this time we go into internals in far greater depth, talking less about theory and using much more practical examples.
The book serves as a primer for topics to follow, such as branching and merging, creating and managing a GitHub personal repository, and fork and pull requests. You’ll then learn the art of cherry-picking, taking only the commits you want, followed by Git blame. Finally, we'll see how to interoperate with a Subversion server, covering the concepts and commands needed to convert an SVN repository into a Git repository.
To conclude, this is a collection of resources, links, and appendices to satisfy even the most curious.
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Git Essentials - Second Edition
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Git
Git Fundamentals - Working Locally
Git Fundamentals - Working Remotely
Git Fundamentals - Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands
Obtaining the Most - Good Commits and Workflows
Migrating to Git
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