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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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Interactive add

The exposed staging area Git offers sometimes lead to confusion, especially when adding a file, changing it a bit, and then adding the file again to be able to commit the changes made after the first add. While this can seem a bit cumbersome to add the file after every little change, it is also a big advantage that you can stage and unstage changes. With the git add command, it is even possible to only add some changes to a file in the staging area. This comes in handy especially if you make a lot of changes to a file and for example, want to split the changes into bug fixes, refactoring, and features. This example will show how you can easily do this.

Getting ready

Again, we'll use the cookbook-tips-tricks repository. Clone it and check out the interactive branch:

$ git clone https://github.com/dvaske/cookbook-tips-tricks.git
$ cd cookbook-tips-tricks
$ git checkout interactive

How to do it...

First, we need some changes to be added; we do this by a resetting the latest...

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