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Mastering Git

Mastering Git

By : Narębski
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Mastering Git

Mastering Git

By: Narębski

Overview of this book

Developers often feel overwhelmed by complex version control issues, especially when managing large repositories. This updated second edition of our Git guide empowers you to tackle these challenges head-on and emerge as a Git pro. The book gets you up to speed with the latest Git version, its features, and advanced branching techniques, helping you master complex development scenarios. A new chapter on tackling challenges while managing large repositories has been added, providing invaluable strategies for efficient version control with Git. The book goes beyond the basics to take you through Git’s architecture, behavior, and best practices in depth. The chapters help you develop a clear understanding of customizing workflows, creating unique solutions, and tackling any version control hurdle. As you advance, you’ll explore a wide range of functionalities, from examining project history to collaborating seamlessly with teammates. Detailed descriptions guide you through managing your work, collaborating with others, administering Git, and navigating project history. By the end of this book, you’ll have become a Git pro and be confident enough to handle advanced branching, manage large repositories, customize workflows, collaborate effectively, and troubleshoot any version control issues.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1 - Exploring Project History and Managing Your Own Work
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Part 2 - Working with Other Developers
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Part 3 - Managing, Configuring, and Extending Git

Integrating changes

The exact details on how to submit changes for merging depends, of course, on the development workflow that the project is using. Various classes of possible workflows are described in Chapter 6, Collaborative Development with Git.

Submitting and describing changes

If the project has a dedicated maintainer or, at least someone responsible for merging the proposed changes into the official version, you also need to describe the submitted changes as a whole (in addition to describing each commit in the series). This can be done in the form of a cover letter for the patch series while sending changes as patches via email. It can also be done with comments in the pull request while using the collocated contributor repositories model, or it can be the description in an email with a pull request, which already includes the URL and the branch in your public repository with changes (generated with git request-pull).

This cover letter or pull request should include...

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