Version Control with Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development

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Version Control with Git takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects, using this highly flexible, open source version control system.

Git permits virtually an infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration. Created by Linus Torvalds to manage development of the Linux kernel, it's become the principal tool for distributed version control. But Git's flexibility also means that some users don't understand how to use it to their best advantage. Version Control with Git offers tutorials on the most effective ways to use it, as well as friendly yet rigorous advice to help you navigate Git's many functions.

With this book, you will:

Learn how to use Git in several real-world development environments
Gain insight into Git's common-use cases, initial tasks, and basic functions
Understand how to use Git for both centralized and distributed version control
Use Git to manage patches, diffs, merges, and conflicts
Acquire advanced techniques such as rebasing, hooks, and ways to handle submodules (subprojects)
Learn how to use Git with Subversion

Git has earned the respect of developers around the world. Find out how you can benefit from this amazing tool with Version Control with Git.

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ISBN-13: 9780596520120
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/11/2009
Pages: 330
Sales rank: 284,933
Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Jon Loeliger is a freelance software engineer who contributes to Open Source projects such as Linux, U-Boot, and Git. He has given tutorial presentations on Git at many conferences including Linux World, and has written several papers on Git for Linux Magazine.

In prior lives, Jon has spent a number of years developing highly optimizing compilers, router protocols, Linux porting, and the occasional game. Jon holds degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University. In his spare time, he is a home winemaker.

Preface; Audience; Assumed Framework; Book Layout and Omissions; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 The Birth of Git; 1.3 Precedents; 1.4 Time Line; 1.5 What’s in a Name?; Chapter 2: Installing Git; 2.1 Using Linux Binary Distributions; 2.2 Obtaining a Source Release; 2.3 Building and Installing; 2.4 Installing Git on Windows; Chapter 3: Getting Started; 3.1 The Git Command Line; 3.2 Quick Introduction to Using Git; 3.3 Configuration Files; 3.4 Inquiry; Chapter 4: Basic Git Concepts; 4.1 Basic Concepts; 4.2 Object Store Pictures; 4.3 Git Concepts at Work; Chapter 5: File Management and the Index; 5.1 It’s All About the Index; 5.2 File Classifications in Git; 5.3 Using git add; 5.4 Some Notes on Using git commit; 5.5 Using git rm; 5.6 Using git mv; 5.7 A Note on Tracking Renames; 5.8 The .gitignore File; 5.9 A Detailed View of Git’s Object Model and Files; Chapter 6: Commits; 6.1 Atomic Changesets; 6.2 Identifying Commits; 6.3 Commit History; 6.4 Finding Commits; Chapter 7: Branches; 7.1 Reasons for Using Branches; 7.2 Branch Names; 7.3 Using Branches; 7.4 Creating Branches; 7.5 Listing Branch Names; 7.6 Viewing Branches; 7.7 Checking Out Branches; 7.8 Deleting Branches; Chapter 8: Diffs; 8.1 Forms of the git diff Command; 8.2 Simple git diff Example; 8.3 git diff and Commit Ranges; 8.4 git diff with Path Limiting; 8.5 Comparing How Subversion and Git Derive diffs; Chapter 9: Merges; 9.1 Merge Examples; 9.2 Working with Merge Conflicts; 9.3 Merge Strategies; 9.4 How Git Thinks About Merges; Chapter 10: Altering Commits; 10.1 Caution About Altering History; 10.2 Using git reset; 10.3 Using git cherry-pick; 10.4 Using git revert; 10.5 reset, revert, and checkout; 10.6 Changing the Top Commit; 10.7 Rebasing Commits; Chapter 11: Remote Repositories; 11.1 Repository Concepts; 11.2 Referencing Other Repositories; 11.3 Example Using Remote Repositories; 11.4 Remote Repository Operations in Pictures; 11.5 Adding and Deleting Remote Branches; 11.6 Remote Configuration; 11.7 Bare Repositories and git push; 11.8 Publishing Repositories; Chapter 12: Repository Management; 12.1 Repository Structure; 12.2 Living with Distributed Development; 12.3 Knowing Your Place; 12.4 Working with Multiple Repositories; Chapter 13: Patches; 13.1 Why Use Patches?; 13.2 Generating Patches; 13.3 Mailing Patches; 13.4 Applying Patches; 13.5 Bad Patches; 13.6 Patching Versus Merging; Chapter 14: Hooks; 14.1 Installing Hooks; 14.2 Available Hooks; Chapter 15: Combining Projects; 15.1 The Old Solution: Partial Checkouts; 15.2 The Obvious Solution: Import the Code into Your Project; 15.3 The Automated Solution: Checking Out Subprojects Using Custom Scripts; 15.4 The Native Solution: gitlinks and git submodule; Chapter 16: Using Git with Subversion Repositories; 16.1 Example: A Shallow Clone of a Single Branch; 16.2 Pushing, Pulling, Branching, and Merging with git svn; 16.3 Miscellaneous Notes on Working with Subversion; Colophon;

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ert829

Posted March 22, 2010

Clearly written, good working examples and use cases.

This book was well written and reasonable to follow. The examples all worked for me and I was able to achieve my goal of using GIT to version control my software. I was able to create a remote repositiory on a usb stick and clone this repositiory to multiple development pcs. Changes made to the source by each pc were able to be synchronized with the main repository. There is an example of exactly how to do this in the book. I am an experienced IBM Rational Clearcase user, so I already understood the concepts involved. There is a pretty good use case example of multiple developers working on multiple branches, which illustrates concurrent development in a reasonable way. It took me a while to understand this stuff when I first learned Clearcase. A book like this would have been useful. I recommend this book.
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Posted August 20, 2009

GIT ME!!

Do you want to gain insight into some of Git's internal design and be able to master some of its more powerful techniques? If you do, then this book is for you! Author Jon Loeliger, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you how you can learn enough about basic Git operations to be productive in a short while.

Loeliger, begins by showing you how to install Git on Linux and Microsoft Windows and within Cygwin. Next, the author explores why and where Git differs by examining the key components of its architecture and some important concepts. Then, he explains how to manage the index and your corpus of files. The author continues by showing you how to select, create, view, and remove branches. Next, he covers some of the basics of git diff and some of its special capabilities. Then, he shows you how to combine two or more different lines of development. The author continues by showing you examples and techniques to share, track, and obtain data across multiple repositories. Next, he presents two approaches to managing and publishing repositories for cooperative development. Then, the author explains when you might want to use patches and shows you how to generate, send, and apply a patch. He continues by discussing why developers create submodules and how Git attempts to deal with them. Finally, the author shows you how to use Git when the rest of your team employs a Subversion.

This most excellent book shows you why Git is a powerful, flexible, and low-overhead version control tool that makes collaborative development a pleasure. More importantly, if you read this book cover to cover, you'll discover why Git has proven valuable to a wide range of projects.
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