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

Table of Contents

Git Basics in Practice

Exploring Project History

Developing with Git

Managing Your Worktree

Collaborative Development with Git

Advanced Branching Techniques

Merging Changes Together

Keeping History Clean

Managing Subprojects - Building a Living Framework

Customizing and Extending Git

Git Administration

Git Best Practices

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