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Get up to speed on Git right now with Pragmatic Guide to Git. Task-oriented two-page spreads get you up and running with minimal fuss. Each left-hand page dives into the underlying implementation for each task. The right-hand page contains commands that focus on the task at hand, and cross references to other tasks that are related. You'll find what you need fast.

Git is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for the open source community. Its excellent merging capabilities, coupled with its speed and relative ease of use, make it an indispensable tool for any developer. New Git users will learn the basic tasks needed to work with Git every day, ...

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Overview

Get up to speed on Git right now with Pragmatic Guide to Git. Task-oriented two-page spreads get you up and running with minimal fuss. Each left-hand page dives into the underlying implementation for each task. The right-hand page contains commands that focus on the task at hand, and cross references to other tasks that are related. You'll find what you need fast.

Git is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for the open source community. Its excellent merging capabilities, coupled with its speed and relative ease of use, make it an indispensable tool for any developer. New Git users will learn the basic tasks needed to work with Git every day, including working with remote repositories, dealing with branches and tags, exploring the history, and fixing problems when things go wrong. If you're already familiar with Git, this book will be your go-to reference for Git commands and best practices.

You won't find a more practical approach to learning Git than Pragmatic Guide to Git.

Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer; owner of Domain51, a web and mobile development company in Lawrence, Kansas; and the author of Pragmatic Version Control Using Git, the first published book on Git. He's passionate about open source development and is active in communities across several languages.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781934356722
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
  • Publication date: 11/22/2010
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 483,643
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer; owner of Domain51, a web and mobile development company in Lawrence, Kansas; and the author of Pragmatic Version Control Using Git, the first published book on Git. He's passionate about open source development and is active in communities across several languages.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Who Is This Book For? xiii

How to Read This Book xiv

How Git Is Different xvi

The Git Workflow xvii

Online Resources xx

I Getting Started 1

Task 1 Installing Git 4

Task 2 Configuring Git 6

Task 3 Creating a New Repository 8

Task 4 Creating a Local Copy of an Existing Repository 10

II Working with Git 13

Task 5 Seeing What Has Changed 18

Task 6 Staging Changes to Commit 20

Task 7 Committing Changes 22

Task 8 Ignoring Files 24

Task 9 Undoing Uncommitted Changes 26

Task 10 Moving Files in Git 28

Task 11 Deleting Files in Git 30

Task 12 Sharing Changes 32

III Organizing Your Repository with Branches and Tags 35

Task 13 Creating and Switching Branches 42

Task 14 Viewing Branches 44

Task 15 Merging Commits Between Branches 46

Task 16 Rewriting History by Rebasing 48

Task 17 Deleting Branches 50

Task 18 Tagging Milestones 52

IV Working with a Team 55

Task 19 Adding and Removing Remotes 60

Task 20 Retrieving Remote Changes 62

Task 21 Retrieving Remote Changes, Part II 64

Task 22 Sending Changes to Remotes 66

Task 23 Handling Remote Tags and Branches 68

V Branches and Merging Revisited 71

Task 24 Handling Conflicts 74

Task 25 Handling Conflicts with a GUI 76

Task 26 Temporarily Hiding Changes 78

Task 27 Cherry-Picking Commits 80

Task 28 Controlling How You Replay Commits 82

Task 29 Moving Branches 84

VI Working with the Repository's History 87

Task 30 Viewing the Log 92

Task 31 Filtering the Log Output 94

Task 32 Comparing Differences 96

Task 33 Generating Statistics About Changes 98

Task 34 Assigning Blame 100

VII Fixing Things 103

Task 35 Fixing Commits 106

Task 36 Reverting Commits 108

Task 37 Resetting Staged Changes and Commits 110

Task 38 Erasing Commits 112

Task 39 Finding Bugs with bisect 114

Task 40 Retrieving "Lost" Commits 116

VIII Moving Beyond the Basics 119

Task 41 Exporting Your Repository 122

Task 42 Doing Some Git Housekeeping 124

Task 43 Syncing with Subversion 126

Task 44 Initializing Bare Repositories 128

A Glossary 131

Index 135

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    informative, but could add a bit more and still be considered a concise pragmatic guide.

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