Learn Git The Hard Way (Learn Git The Hard Way)
$9.99
Minimum price
$15.00
Suggested price

Learn Git The Hard Way

About the Book

Git need not be stressful.

In four parts, Learn Git the Hard Way takes you from a beginners knowledge to a complete understanding of all the git fundamentals you need to maintain a codebase.

Buying this book entitles you to any future updates.

No longer need you be confused by terms like rebase, merge, branch, and bisect when others discuss them.

It focusses on the practical knowledge needed to get comfortable with using git.

Part I - Core Git

  • What source control is
  • Creating and cloning repositories
  • Branching and merging

Part II - Advanced Local Git

  • Stashing
  • Interactive addition of content
  • The reflog
  • Cherry Picking
  • Rebasing
  • Bisecting

Part III - Remote Repository Management

  • Remotes
  • Remote branches vs local
  • Submodules
  • Pull requests
  • Tracking

Part IV - Advanced Git

  • Git log
  • Squashing / advanced rebasing
  • Bare Repositores
  • Share this book

  • Categories

    • Computers and Programming
    • Git
    • Software
  • Installments completed

    4 / 4

  • Feedback

    You must own a copy of this Book to access the forums.

    Email the Author(s)

About the Author

Ian Miell
Ian Miell

Ian Miell has over twenty years' experience in IT, writing, running, architecting, and maintaining software for some of the world's busiest systems.

He has written the book 'Docker in Practice' (published by Manning), 'Learn Bash the Hard Way' (published on Leanpub), as well as various training courses and videos.

He blogs about his experiences at https://zwischenzugs.com

Bundles that include this book

$26.99
Bought separately
$15.00
Bundle Price
$38.98
Bought separately
$24.99
Bundle Price

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Learn Git the Hard Way
    • Introduction
  • Part I - Core Git
    • Introduction to Git
    • Git Basics
    • Cloning a Repository
    • Git Branching
    • Merging
    • Switch and Restore
    • Summary
  • Part II - Advanced Local Git
    • Git Stash
    • Git Add Interactive
    • Reflog
    • Cherry Picking
    • Git Rebase
    • Git Bisect
    • Git Worktree
    • Summary
  • Part III - Remote Repository Management
    • Fetching and Pulling Content
    • Working With Multiple Repositories
    • Pushing Code
    • Git Submodules
    • Pull Requests
    • Summary
  • Part IV - Advanced Git
    • Git Log
    • Squashing Commits
    • Bare Repositories
    • Cherry-Picking and Three-Way Merges
    • Git Hooks
    • Summary
    • Finished!

The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

See full terms...

80% Royalties. Earn $16 on a $20 book.

We pay 80% royalties. That's not a typo: you earn $16 on a $20 sale. If we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book or course for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

In fact, authors have earnedover $13 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub

Free Updates. DRM Free.

If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).

Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.

Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.

Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them

Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub