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Git Version Control Cookbook

Git Version Control Cookbook

By : Olsson, Voss
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Git Version Control Cookbook

Git Version Control Cookbook

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By: Olsson, Voss

Overview of this book

This 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.
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Applying patches


Now we know how to create patches from commits. It is time to learn to apply them.

Getting ready

We'll use the repository from the previous examples along with the generated patches as follows:

$ cd offline-sharing 
$ git checkout master
$ ls -1a
.
..
.git
Makefile
README.md
another_pi.c
latest-commit
math.c
not-on-master

How to do it...

First, we'll checkout the develop branch and apply the patch generated from the master branch (0001-Calculate-pi-with-more-digits.patch) in the first example. We use the Git command am to apply the patches; am is short for apply from mailbox:

$ git checkout develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
$ git am latest-commit/0001-Calculate-pi-with-more-digits.patch
Applying: Calculate pi with more digits

We can also apply the master branch to the series of patches that was generated from the develop branch as follows:

$ git checkout master
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
$ git am not-on...

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