Git Version Control Cookbook
90 hands-on recipes that will increase your productivity when using Git as a version control system
Published on 13. January 2025
340 pages
978-1-78216-846-1 (ISBN)
Description
Key Features
Book DescriptionThis practical guide contains a wide variety of recipes, taking you through all the topics you need to know about to fully utilize the most advanced features of the Git system. If you are a software developer or a build and release engineer who uses Git in your daily work and want to take your Git knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. To understand and follow the recipes included in this book, basic knowledge of Git command-line code is mandatory.What you will learn
Understand the Git data model and how you can navigate the database with simple commands
Learn how you can recover lost commits/files
Discover how you can force rebase on some branches and use regular Git merge on other branches
Extract metadata from a Git repository
Familiarize yourself with Git notes
Discover how you can work offline with Git
Debug with Git and use various techniques to find the faulty commit
Who this book is for
Book DescriptionThis practical guide contains a wide variety of recipes, taking you through all the topics you need to know about to fully utilize the most advanced features of the Git system. If you are a software developer or a build and release engineer who uses Git in your daily work and want to take your Git knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. To understand and follow the recipes included in this book, basic knowledge of Git command-line code is mandatory.What you will learn
Understand the Git data model and how you can navigate the database with simple commands
Learn how you can recover lost commits/files
Discover how you can force rebase on some branches and use regular Git merge on other branches
Extract metadata from a Git repository
Familiarize yourself with Git notes
Discover how you can work offline with Git
Debug with Git and use various techniques to find the faulty commit
Who this book is for
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More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
4,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78216-846-1 (9781782168461)
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Kenneth Geisshirt
Git Version Control Cookbook
Leverage version control to transform your development workflow and boost productivity, 2nd Edition
E-Book
07/2018
1st Edition
Packt Publishing
€41.49
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Aske Olsson | Rasmus Voss
GitVersionControlCookbook
Book
07/2014
Packt Publishing
€56.40
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Persons
Aske Olsson has more than 14 years of experience in the software industry. As an electrical engineer, he has been using every tool available for development, from a soldering iron over Assembly, C, Java Groovy, Python and various DSLs for programming to different SCMs and build-, CI- and issue-tracking systems. He has worked for Nokia for 6 years and, currently, works at Keylane. Aske has experience with Git; he has been teaching Git in regular training sessions, from basic Git to advanced usage. Rasmus Voss has been working with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automatic testing, and DevOps, in various industries. He has always strived to ensure that where developers, testers, project leaders, and managers can work with the system instead of against the system. Typically, the processes and solutions he develops are clear, precise, and well documented, with relevant feedback to all parts of the software development process.
Content
Table of Contents
Navigating Git and understanding the data model
Configuration
Branching, merging and options
Rebasing, interactively and other use cases
Storing additional information in the repository
Extracting metadata from the repository
Automating your daily work with Git hooks
Recovering from mistakes
Repository maintenance
Patching and offline sharing
Git Plumbing
Tips and Tricks
Navigating Git and understanding the data model
Configuration
Branching, merging and options
Rebasing, interactively and other use cases
Storing additional information in the repository
Extracting metadata from the repository
Automating your daily work with Git hooks
Recovering from mistakes
Repository maintenance
Patching and offline sharing
Git Plumbing
Tips and Tricks
