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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

Merging, Pull Requests, and Handling Merge Conflicts

In this chapter, you will see how to merge branches, using different types of merges. You will also see how to handle merge conflicts and tools to make managing conflicts easier. You will learn about pull requests and the difference between a fast-forward merge and a "true" merge.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • How to push a commit to the server
  • How to manage your commits with the command line, Visual Studio, and GitHub Desktop
  • How to merge into the main branch
  • What a pull request is
  • What merge conflicts are and how to resolve them
  • What a fast-forward merge is
  • What a true merge is

Let's start with an overview of merging.