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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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Branches with remotes

At some point, it is very likely that you have cloned somebody's repository. This means you have an associated remote. The remote is usually called origin because it is where the source originated from.

While working with Git and remotes, you will get some benefits from Git.

We can start with git status and see what we get while working with the remote.

Getting ready

  1. We will start by checking out a local branch that tracks a remote branch:
    $ git checkout -b remoteBugFix --track origin/stable-3.2
    Branch remoteBugFix set up to track remote branch stable-3.2 from origin.
    Switched to a new branch 'remoteBugFix'
    
  2. The previous command creates and checks out the remoteBugFix branch that will track the origin/stable-3.2 branch. So, for instance, executing git status will automatically show how different your branch is from origin/stable-3.2, and it will also show whether your branch's HEAD can be fast forwarded to the HEAD of the remote branch or not.
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