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Git for Programmers

By : Jesse Liberty
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Git for Programmers

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)
11
Finding a Broken Commit: Bisect and Blame
13
Next Steps
14
Other Books You May Enjoy
15
Index

GitHub Desktop

We can open GitHub Desktop to the same directory. Click on File and choose Add local repository...:

Figure 4.10: Opening GitHub Desktop

The next step is to tell GitHub Desktop where that repository is. A dialog opens and you can either enter the local path by hand, or you can click Choose..., which will bring you to a Windows Explorer window where you can pick the appropriate directory. Once that is all set, click Add repository:

Figure 4.11: Adding a local repository

You'll now be brought to the main page. Notice that we are still in the repository ProGitForProgrammers, but on the Book branch, and that it knows we have one commit to push. It also offers a handy Push origin button with an explanation that pressing that button will push the commit to the origin (the server; your repository on GitHub):

Figure 4.12: GitHub Desktop information bar

Once again, we want to know what we are pushing. No problem, just click History...