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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

Getting started with log

Let's quickly build another project and repository:

Figure 9.1: Create a new repository

Next, as we have done before, we'll clone this repository to our local machine:

Figure 9.2: Cloning the demo program

With this local repository, we can begin to examine its commits using log. To do so, of course, we need to create a program and make some commits.

The LogDemo program

Create a program in the LogDemo directory. Change the program to be public and build and run it to make sure it is working:

Figure 9.3: Testing the program

I'm going to create the same calculator class we've seen before, with the same commits after each tiny function. I'll spare you having to look at all that and I'll just put it into the repository.

Having added all the functions, let's give it a spin:

using System;
namespace LogDemo
{
    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args...