Git Essentials - Second Edition

By : Ferdinando Santacroce

Git Essentials - Second Edition

By: Ferdinando Santacroce

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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Git

Foreword to the second edition

Installing Git

Running our first Git command

Summary

Git Fundamentals - Working Locally

Digging into Git internals

Git objects

Even deeper - the Git storage object model

Git doesn't use deltas

Wrapping up

Git references

Staging area, working tree, and HEAD commit

Rebasing

Merging branches

Cherry picking

Summary

Git Fundamentals - Working Remotely

Working with remotes

Working with a public server on GitHub

Summary

Git Fundamentals - Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands

Dissecting Git configuration

Git aliases

Useful techniques

Tricks

Summary

Obtaining the Most - Good Commits and Workflows

The art of committing

Adopting a workflow - a wise act

Summary

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

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

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Git Essentials - Second Edition

By : Ferdinando Santacroce

Git Essentials - Second Edition

By: Ferdinando Santacroce

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