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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

Challenge

Create a local copy of Panofy. Add a note to one of the commits and ensure it is there. Add a tag to one of the commits and make sure it is there. Finally, change which commit the tag is pointing to.

Here is my answer:

First, switch directory to Panofy. If it is not on your local machine, clone it:

Figure 7.17: Switching to the Panofy project

As shown in Figure 7.17 when I tried to change directory to Panofy I was told it doesn't exist, so I cloned it from the server.

To create a mirror I first create a new repo on the server named Panofy2:

Figure 7.18: Mirroring

As you can see in Figure 7.18, this time I did not bother creating a license file as all of this will be overwritten when I mirror Panofy over it. To do so I change directory to Panofy (the original repo) and enter:

git push ––mirror https://github.com/JesseLiberty/Panofy2.git

This takes the repository I'm in (Panofy) and pushes it to the new...