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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

Managing worktrees and the staging area

In Chapter 2, Developing with Git, we learned that, besides the working directory (worktree) where you work on changes and the local repository where you store committed changes as revisions, there is also a third section between them: the staging area, sometimes called the index.

In the same chapter, we learned how to examine the status of the working directory, as well as how to view the differences. We saw how to create a new commit out of the working directory or out of the staging area.

Now, it is time to learn how to examine and modify the state of individual files.

Examining files and directories

It is easy to examine the contents of the working directory: you can just use the standard tools for viewing files (for example, an editor or pager) and examining directories (for example, a file manager or the dir command). But how do we view the staged contents of a file or the last committed version?

One possible solution is...

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