Mastering Git: Attain expert level proficiency with Git for enhanced productivity and efficient collaboration

by Jakub Narebski

Attain expert-level proficiency with Git for enhanced productivity and efficient collaboration by mastering advanced distributed version control features

Key FeaturesSet up Git for solo and collaborative developmentHarness the full power of Git version control system to customize Git behavior, manipulate history, integrate external tools and explore platform shortcutsA detailed guide, which explains how to apply advanced Git techniques and workflows and ways to handle submodulesBook DescriptionGit 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 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 learnExplore project history, find revisions using different criteria, and filter and format how history looksManage your working directory and staging area for commits and interactively create new revisions and amend themSet up repositories and branches for collaborationSubmit your own contributions and integrate contributions from other developers via merging or rebasingCustomize Git behavior system-wide, on a per-user, per-repository, and per-file basisTake up the administration and set up of Git repositories, configure access, find and recover from repository errors, and perform repository maintenanceChose a workflow and configure and set up support for the chosen workflowTable of ContentsGit Basics in PracticeExploring Project HistoryDeveloping with GitManaging Your WorktreeCollaborative Development with GitAdvanced Branching TechniquesMerging Changes TogetherKeeping History CleanManaging Subprojects – Building a Living FrameworkCustomizing and Extending GitGit AdministrationGit Best Practices

Genres: Programming

683 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 21, 2018