
Version Control with Git
Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development
O'Reilly (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 17. August 2012
Book
452 pages
978-1-4493-1638-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Get up to speed on Git for tracking, branching, merging, and managing code revisions. Through a series of step-by-step tutorials, this practical guide takes you quickly from Git fundamentals to advanced techniques, and provides friendly yet rigorous advice for navigating the many functions of this open source version control system.
This thoroughly revised edition also includes tips for manipulating trees, extended coverage of the reflog and stash, and a complete introduction to the GitHub repository. Git lets you manage code development in a virtually endless variety of ways, once you understand how to harness the system's flexibility. This book shows you how.
* Learn how to use Git for several real-world development scenarios
* Gain insight into Git's common-use cases, initial tasks, and basic functions
* Use the system for both centralized and distributed version control
* Learn how to manage merges, conflicts, patches, and diffs
* Apply advanced techniques such as rebasing, hooks, and ways to handle submodules
* Interact with Subversion (SVN) repositories-including SVN to Git conversions
* Navigate, use, and contribute to open source projects though GitHub
This thoroughly revised edition also includes tips for manipulating trees, extended coverage of the reflog and stash, and a complete introduction to the GitHub repository. Git lets you manage code development in a virtually endless variety of ways, once you understand how to harness the system's flexibility. This book shows you how.
* Learn how to use Git for several real-world development scenarios
* Gain insight into Git's common-use cases, initial tasks, and basic functions
* Use the system for both centralized and distributed version control
* Learn how to manage merges, conflicts, patches, and diffs
* Apply advanced techniques such as rebasing, hooks, and ways to handle submodules
* Interact with Subversion (SVN) repositories-including SVN to Git conversions
* Navigate, use, and contribute to open source projects though GitHub
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Revised edition
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978-1-4493-1638-9 (9781449316389)
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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.