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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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Back up your repositories as mirror repositories


Though Git is distributed and every clone essentially is a backup, there are some tricks that can be useful when backing up Git repositories. A normal Git repository has a working copy of the files it tracks and the full history of the repository in the .git folder of that repository. The repositories on the server, the one you push to and pull from, will usually be bare repositories. A bare repository is a repository without a working copy. Roughly, it is just the .git folder of a normal repository. A mirror repository is almost the same as a bare repository, except it fetches all the references under refs/*, where a bare only fetches the references that fall under refs/heads/*. We'll now take a closer look at a normal, a bare, and a mirror clone of the Jgit repository.

Getting ready

We'll start by creating three clones of the Jgit repository, a normal, a bare, and a mirror clone. When we create the first clone, we can use that as a reference...

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