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Mastering Git

Attain expert level proficiency with Git for enhanced productivity and efficient collaboration

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jan 2025
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Description

Attain expert-level proficiency with Git for enhanced
productivity and efficient collaboration by mastering
advanced distributed version control features

Key Features

  • Set up Git for solo and collaborative development
  • Harness the full power of Git version control system to customize Git behavior, manipulate history, integrate external tools and explore platform shortcuts
  • A detailed guide, which explains how to apply advanced Git techniques and workflows and ways to handle submodules

Book Description

Git is one of the most popular types of Source Code Management (SCM) and Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). Despite the powerful and versatile nature of the tool enveloping strong support for nonlinear development and the ability to handle large projects efficiently, it is a complex tool and often regarded as “user-unfriendly”. Getting to know the ideas and concepts behind the architecture of Git will help you make full use of its power and understand its behavior. Learning the best practices and recommended workflows should help you to avoid problems and ensure trouble-free development.

The book scope is meticulously designed to help you gain deeper insights into Git's architecture, its underlying concepts, behavior, and best practices. Mastering Git starts with a quick implementation example of using Git for a collaborative development of a sample project to establish the foundation knowledge of Git operational tasks and concepts. Furthermore, as you progress through the book, the tutorials provide detailed descriptions of various areas of usage: from archaeology, through managing your own work, to working with other developers. This book also helps augment your understanding to examine and explore project history, create and manage your contributions, set up repositories and branches for collaboration in centralized and distributed version control, integrate work from other developers, customize and extend Git, and recover from repository errors. By exploring advanced Git practices, you will attain a deeper understanding of Git’s behavior, allowing you to customize and extend existing recipes and write your own.

What you will learn

  • Explore project history, find revisions using different criteria, and filter and format how history looks
  • Manage your working directory and staging area for commits and interactively create new revisions and amend them
  • Set up repositories and branches for collaboration
  • Submit your own contributions and integrate contributions from other developers via merging or rebasing
  • Customize Git behavior system-wide, on a per-user, per-repository, and per-file basis
  • Take up the administration and set up of Git repositories, configure access, find and recover from repository errors, and perform repository maintenance
  • Chose a workflow and configure and set up support for the chosen workflow

Who this book is for

If you are a Git user with reasonable knowledge of Git and familiarity with basic concepts such as branching, merging, staging, and workflows, this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of installing Git and software configuration management concepts is essential.

Table of Contents

  1. Git Basics in Practice
  2. Exploring Project History
  3. Developing with Git
  4. Managing Your Worktree
  5. Collaborative Development with Git
  6. Advanced Branching Techniques
  7. Merging Changes Together
  8. Keeping History Clean
  9. Managing Subprojects - Building a Living Framework
  10. Customizing and Extending Git
  11. Git Administration
  12. Git Best Practices
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78355-376-1
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 418
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Software development
BISAC subjects:
COM060090,
COM060150,
COM051230
Thema subjects:
UBW,
UD,
UM

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