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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

Just a brief history

In July of 2005, after just a few month's work, Linus Torvalds, the genius behind Linux, released Git to meet his own needs, the needs of the Linux community, and eventually, the rest of us. The goal of Git was to be fast and efficient. It succeeded.

While most VCSes at the time were centralized (all the files were kept on a big server), Git uses a distributed system, in which everyone has their own repository. Technically, no central server is required for Git, although if you are working in a team, a central place for sharing code is convenient. But the huge difference is that with Git, the vast majority of your interactions with the VCS are local – right there on your disk.