Practical guide to version control with GIT
Practical guide to version control with GIT
About the Book
This book provides a practice based introduction to the version control system GIT. It covers all level from the beginner to the advanced one. Next to the introduction it also contains step-by-step guides and practical exercises related to some real life examples.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Introduction
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Theoretical basics
- What is version controlling
- What is git
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First steps with git
- Guidance
- Install git
- Create a repository
- Stage your first changes
- Create your first commit
- What is a commit in fact?
- What does a proper commit look like?
- Create your first branch
- When to use a branch in practice?
- Rebase your branch
- Merge your branches
- Cherry-pick
- Summary of merge, rebase and cherry-pick
- Resolve the merge conflicts
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Git with multiple users
- Pull the changes of others
- Push your own changes
- Strategies to avoid conflicts at pull and push
- Git integration strategies
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Advanced git features
- Git tags
- Git reflog
- Cleaning up your repository
- Git stash
- Interactive rebase
- Git blame
- Git bisect
- Git amend
- Git submodules
- Commit hooks
- Git large files storage
- Detached HEAD mode
- Git diff
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Advanced git scenarios
- Edit an old commit
- Add only a part of the changes in a file to a commit
- Combine commits
- Change the order of commits
- Split a commit into multiple ones
- Change the commit message
- Find the commit which broke the test
- Validation of commit messages
- Undo unintended git command
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Git under the hood
- How are the commits stored?
- Branches and upstream branches
- The hidden Git directories
- Git config
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Useful Git tools
- Git GUI
- Gitk
- Git difftool and mergetool
- GITHUB
- List of Git commands
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Practical exercises
- Add commits and branches to a repository
- Pull-push
- Rebase - Merge - Cherry pick - Amend
- Interactive rebase
- Implement a commit hook
- Find the bug with GIT bisect
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Solutions of the practical exercises
- Add commits and branches to a repository
- Pull-push
- Rebase - Merge - Cherry pick - Amend
- Interactive rebase
- Implement a commit hook
- Find the bug with GIT bisect
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