Sane git
Sane git
Because version control shouldn't be a maze
About the Book
If you're not careful it's easy to have git history that:
- is complicated to reason about,
- hides work done (or work removed),
- contains erroneous commits, or worse, loses commits.
There are many many git horror stories. Lost work, lost time and lost hair.
This book details simple strategies to have a sane git experience, catch mistakes early and learn how to do git the right way.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
- With great power comes great responsibility
- The solution: keep it simple
- Why: Fork
- Why: Small branches from master
- Why: Pull request
- Why: Update via rebase
- Why: Review the network graph
- Why: Sane release management
- In this book
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2. Getting setup
- 2.1 Signing up to Github
- 2.2 Installing git
- 2.3 Configuring git
- 2.4 Forking the upstream repository
- 2.5 Cloning your fork
- 2.6 Setting up remotes
- 2.7 The fast-forward alias
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3. The workflow
- 3.1 Fetching the latest code
- 3.2 Starting work - branching from master
- 3.3 Creating a pull request
- 3.4 Merging a pull request
- 3.5 Updating a branch
- 3.6 Squashing commits
- 3.7 Why this workflow
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4. The network graph
- 4.1 Example graph
- 4.2 Current branches
- 4.3 Merged branches
- 4.4 Interacting
- 4.5 Catching mistakes
- 5. Sane Release Strategies (Coming soon)
- 6. War stories (Coming soon)
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7. Troubleshooting
- 7.1 Can’t fast-forward master
- 7.2 Committed to master
- 7.3 Undo a rebase
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8. Tips
- 8.1 Aliasing frequently used functions
- 8.2 Avoid pulling
- 8.3 Local network graphs
- 8.4 Checkout pull requests
- 8.5 Setting default text editor
- 8.6 IDEs
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9. Cheatsheet
- Fetch latest code
- Create new branch
- Update branch with rebase
- Squash commits
- Hot-fix a commit
- Further reading
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