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Git for Programmers

Git for Programmers

By : Jesse Liberty
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Git for Programmers

Git for Programmers

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By: Jesse Liberty

Overview of this book

Whether you’re looking for a book to deepen your understanding of Git or a refresher, this book is the ultimate guide to Git. Git for Programmers comprehensively equips you with actionable insights on advanced Git concepts in an engaging and straightforward way. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll gain expertise (and confidence) on Git with lots of practical use cases. After a quick refresher on git history and installation, you’ll dive straight into the creation and cloning of your repository. You’ll explore Git places, branching, and GUIs to get familiar with the fundamentals. Then you’ll learn how to handle merge conflicts, rebase, amend, interactive rebase, and use the log, as well as explore important Git commands for managing your repository. The troubleshooting part of this Git book will include detailed instructions on how to bisect, blame, and several other problem handling techniques that will complete your newly acquired Git arsenal. By the end of this book, you’ll be using Git with confidence. Saving, sharing, managing files as well as undoing mistakes and basically rewriting history will be a breeze.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Finding a Broken Commit: Bisect and Blame
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Next Steps
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Creating Your Repository

In this chapter, you will learn how to create an account on GitHub, and how to create and clone your first repository so that you have a link between the repository on your computer and that on GitHub.

This chapter will cover:

  • Creating your repository
  • Git pull
  • Push me, pull you
  • Starting at the command line
  • Commits – best practices

We'll start by creating your GitHub repository.

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