Pragmatic Guide to Git

Get up to speed on Git right now with Pragmatic Guide to Git. Task-oriented two-page spreads get you up and running with minimal fuss. Each left-hand page dives into the underlying implementation for each task. The right-hand page contains commands that focus on the task at hand, and cross references to other tasks that are related. You'll find what you need fast. Git is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for the open source community. Its excellent merging capabilities, coupled with its speed and relative ease of use, make it an indispensable tool for any developer. New Git users will learn the basic tasks needed to work with Git every day, including working with remote repositories, dealing with branches and tags, exploring the history, and fixing problems when things go wrong. If you're already familiar with Git, this book will be your go-to reference for Git commands and best practices. You won't find a more practical approach to learning Git than Pragmatic Guide to Git.

Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer; owner of Domain51, a web and mobile development company in Lawrence, Kansas; and the author of Pragmatic Version Control Using Git, the first published book on Git.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Who Is This Book For?	p. xiii
How to Read This Book	p. xiv
How Git Is Different	p. xvi
The Git Workflow	p. xvii
Online Resources	p. xx
Getting Started	p. 1
Installing Git	p. 4
Configuring Git	p. 6
Creating a New Repository	p. 8
Creating a Local Copy of an Existing Repository	p. 10
Working with Git	p. 13
Seeing What Has Changed	p. 18
Staging Changes to Commit	p. 20
Committing Changes	p. 22
Ignoring Files	p. 24
Undoing Uncommitted Changes	p. 26
Moving Files in Git	p. 28
Deleting Files in Git	p. 30
Sharing Changes	p. 32
Organizing Your Repository with Branches and Tags	p. 35
Creating and Switching Branches	p. 42
Viewing Branches	p. 44
Merging Commits Between Branches	p. 46
Rewriting History by Rebasing	p. 48
Deleting Branches	p. 50
Tagging Milestones	p. 52
Working with a Team	p. 55
Adding and Removing Remotes	p. 60
Retrieving Remote Changes	p. 62
Retrieving Remote Changes, Part II	p. 64
Sending Changes to Remotes	p. 66
Handling Remote Tags and Branches	p. 68
Branches and Merging Revisited	p. 71
Handling Conflicts	p. 74
Handling Conflicts with a GUI	p. 76
Temporarily Hiding Changes	p. 78
Cherry-Picking Commits	p. 80
Controlling How You Replay Commits	p. 82
Moving Branches	p. 84
Working with the Repository's History	p. 87
Viewing the Log	p. 92
Filtering the Log Output	p. 94
Comparing Differences	p. 96
Generating Statistics About Changes	p. 98
Assigning Blame	p. 100
Fixing Things	p. 103
Fixing Commits	p. 106
Reverting Commits	p. 108
Resetting Staged Changes and Commits	p. 110
Erasing Commits	p. 112
Finding Bugs with bisect	p. 114
Retrieving "Lost" Commits	p. 116
Moving Beyond the Basics	p. 119
Exporting Your Repository	p. 122
Doing Some Git Housekeeping	p. 124
Syncing with Subversion	p. 126
Initializing Bare Repositories	p. 128
Glossary	p. 131
Index	p. 135
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